By Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant, Daugherty Business Solutions In the rapidly evolving world of product management, there’s a stark realization that by the time you build a product to fit today’s needs, those needs are obsolete. The product cycle, even in its most “agile” form, could take months to…

By Mary Martin, PhD; Mindfulness Educator and Author As a mindfulness practitioner and teacher, I tend to notice things about my own experiences. I wasn’t a pessimist or optimist prior to IFTF’s Imagination Leadership Training, despite research that says optimists tend to be happier, healthier, and live longer. Just as…

By Jeremy Kirshbaum, IFTF Research Affiliate and Founder of Handshake.fyi Over the last decade, violent insurgency and unrest in the Northeast of Nigeria, especially Borno State, has had a negative impact on children’s access to education and learning, with nearly 75 percent, or just over 1.4 million children out of…

By Mark Frauenfelder, IFTF Editorial Director Computer scientist Alan Kay is often credited for saying, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” In truth, no one really knows who said it first. But the quote fits Kay. …

By Alison Lingane, co-founder of Project Equity Employee ownership offers multiple benefits to businesses, owners, employees, and the local economy, including faster growth, higher profits, better wages and benefits, and business retention. Mainstream lenders face challenges in financing employee ownership transitions, but specialized and nonprofit loan funds play a crucial…

By Dr. Jorge Camacho, Research Affiliate, Institute for the Future In 2016, a group of cognitive scientists at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, developed a series of experiments that illustrate the essence of foresight in a deceptively simple form. The first of these experiments was performed with children…

By Kelly Ellenz, Director of Strategy, Meritrust Credit Union A signals club is a great way to integrate foresight into your organization. And if you are thoughtful with the set-up, a signals club will flourish in most organizations. Our club at Meritrust Credit Union celebrated its first anniversary earlier this…

Jerry Davis, Professor of Business Administration and Sociology at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and Department of Sociology June 2023 Since the turn of the millennium, most American families have been invested in the stock market. Whether they came to be investors passively (by taking a job…

By Jeremy Kirshbaum, Instructor at the Generative AI Masterclass, founder of LibraryofBabel.ai and IFTF Research Affiliate “Prompting” will become mostly obsolete in the near future, used only in specific circumstances. Prompts are a way for the user to convey to the AI model what he or she wants by sending…