Ogilvy, J. A. (2002). Creating better futures: scenario planning as a tool for a better tomorrow. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. Ogilvy writes that the future is neither predictable nor constructed of endless possibilities. We can create better futures by thinking ahead and planning with scenarios. In a chapter on using scenarios for educational [...]
Article Link: Computers as authors? Literary luddites unite! (free registration required) The New York Times reports that to write novels, computers don’t need writers anymore. Selmer Bringsjord at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and David A. Ferrucci at IBM created “Brutus.1” an artificial intelligence program that simulates literary creativity. Read one of Brutus.1′s stories.
Article link: Education key to economic survival The BBC‘s Sean Coughlan asks, “how can a small, affluent country such as Finland maintain a high-wage, high-skill economy?” The answer: heavy investment in education and life-long learning. Says the Finnish Minister of Education, “we believe that if we invest in all children for nine years and give [...]
Van der Heijden, K. (1996). Scenarios: the art of strategic conversation. Chichester, England New York: John Wiley & Sons. Van der Heijden argues organizations need to face up to uncertain possible futures. In this book, he argues leaders need to develop organizational processes that foster success. Organizations are characterized as feedback-looped, complex adaptive systems, driven [...]
Senge, P. M. (1994). The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization (1st ed.). New York: Doubleday/Currency. Senge argues traditional organizational leaders need to “revolutionize” their management philosophy toward the highly conceptual approach of systems thinking as the basis for building learning organizations. He adds this “fifth discipline” to four others: building [...]
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