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Foresight

Foresight is an art

 

Field of expertise

Blue Ocean View offers foresight seminars at the Rotterdam School of Management. Other projects can only be commented on request (due to NDA contracts). Via its sister company Esset Engage, Peter Rakers took the position as strategic coordinator for the Horizon Europe 7-year project EU-FarmBook as of August 01, 2022. The overall goal of the EU-FarmBook project is to strengthen the EU AKIS by further developing, expanding, exploiting, and maintaining an EU-wide digital platform for agriculture and forestry practice that is user-friendly and particularly oriented to farmers, foresters, advisors, educators, and trainers. Exploitation will include providing overall support related to concrete practice-oriented knowledge co-creation, (digital) organization and sharing among and across Member States.

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Foresight is more than just talking about the future

… it’s preparing for it.

“What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it.”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -

Taleb’s quote in his million selling book ‘The Black Swan’ reflects on the risks of single point forecasting. How can we bypass the negative effect of randomness?

Then again, numerous sources inform us about the exponentially increasing ‘datafication’ of the world we live in today. There’s an overflow of valuable data, which should make it possible for leaders to take decisions independent of assumptions and wild guesses. How can we unleash that power of foresight and what could it offer to you?

"When making decisions for the future, the past is your worst consultant."

As a foresight practitioner, I combine coaching techniques with future thinking in order to challenge mental models, convergent thinking and limiting beliefs. Foresight is much more an art than it is a science. It can be seen as a facilitation of the strategic conversation or a challenge on future thinking. Any foresight activity is linked to the data-driven decision concept. A foresight facilitator does not interfere with the content, he she or te only manages the process.