Future Foresight Workshop

“Future Foresight” has spread primarily in Europe and the United States as a way of predicting the future and managing uncertainty in the VUCA era. In Japan, it is used alongside “Design Thinking” by private companies, governments, and local governments as a methodology for generating innovation.

Future Foresight differs from “forecasting”, which should be considered as an extension of the present. Instead, it envisions multiple future possibilities and then considers the path to those possibilities as scenarios. Therefore, it can also be considered a methodology for correcting the course of a strategy through “backcasting”. Therefore, in Future Foresight, it is important to critically question familiar, existing perspectives and relationships, and adopt a mindset that embraces bias-breaking and reframing (redefining the problem), which creatively challenge them.

Using horizon scanning, which identifies signs of uncertain change, and forced thinking (brainstorming), you will proactively design a future 10-15 years from now that no one has yet imagined. Experience the thinking tools of future foresight to achieve this.

Shigeki Matsuki, Kazuki Fujimoto, Yasuhiko Kayauchi, Xuqin Yu
(Consultant, Future Design Lab., Research Consulting Department, The Japan Research Institute, Limited (JRI)

• Center for Entrepreneurship Education
• Leadership and Innovation Section, Center for Entrepreneurship Education
• Entrepreneurship Workshops offered by Academy for Leadership (ToTAL)