{"id":7529,"date":"2020-11-18T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futures.gr\/?page_id=7529"},"modified":"2020-12-08T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T08:20:07","slug":"anticipation-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.futures.gr\/en\/anticipation-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipation for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Using the future to plan<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7639 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futures.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cone-853x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.futures.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cone-853x1024.png 853w, https:\/\/www.futures.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cone-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/www.futures.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cone-768x922.png 768w, https:\/\/www.futures.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cone-1279x1536.png 1279w, https:\/\/www.futures.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cone-1705x2048.png 1705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/>The first decade of the second millennium has emphatically shown that we need to prepare for the non-preparable, and we need to foresee the unforeseen. The world is changing <strong>rapidly<\/strong> and in greater levels of <strong>complexity (<\/strong>Harari, 2015), thus quick reaction and resilient strategies are a necessity for businesses and policymakers.<\/p>\n<p>Companies and other organisations as well as whole industrial sectors need to anticipate future developments in order to be prepared for them (Dufva et al., 2015). And while it is relatively easy to prepare for short term linear changes, longer-term shifts in the socio-technical system and the impacts of the exponential technological disruptions are harder to cope with and are regarded as the \u201c<strong>black hole of strategy\u201d<\/strong> (Uotila, Melkas, &amp; Harmaakorpi, 2005).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out here some of our projects and scenario planning services to support the longer-term anticipation of alternative futures and for triggering responses to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the future to plan The first decade of the second millennium has emphatically shown that we need to prepare for the non-preparable, and we need to foresee the unforeseen. 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