In recent years our research and practice at Stanford University has ask, “How can executives and leaders pre-test their foresight?” A quick read of current headlines shows that vision and strategy have become “must-haves” in organizations across the globe. Last week, an article in Harvard Business Review asked, “Do You…

Dr. Tamara Carleton and I have spent almost two decades cultivating the ability to ‘invent the future’ in young leaders around the world, whether in our foresight-based learning (Stanford’s ME410ABC course series and Silicon Valley Innovation Academy), through discussions with moonshot-seeking organizations (Google X, Singularity startups, DARPA, et al), and…

We’re launching “After the Pandemic” in the coming weeks to help young people around the world to take control of the narratives being spun for their future. The simulation emerged from our work at Stanford University to “empower tomorrow’s moonshots”.* In our ecosystem, ‘moonshots’ are the ground-shattering, world-changing individuals and…

We’re regularly asked, “How did your design innovation tools and methods emerge from Stanford’s Design program?” The impetus was a question that Audi posed to Stanford students in the fall of 2008. Up to that time, Volkswagen and Audi had sponsored engineering design and design thinking projects to Stanford students…

We’ve seen an increasing demand for White Spot Analysis within companies large and small as part of the newly emerging Design Innovation mindset. While the intellectual foundations of White Spot Analysis lay in the Scenario Planning Process (SPP), the approach was built to give innovation leaders and managers the ability…