Learning how to think about the future and the skills business and students need
The future is there for the making. But how many of us have a framework to understand what’s ahead and orientate towards it? Fiona Murchie reports from ACS Cobham’s Future-Ready Forum, where renowned futurist Tom Cheesewright outlined the likely challenges and responses we all need.
Opening his presentation at ACS Cobham’s Future-Ready Forum, applied futurist Tom Cheesewright explained his role was not as an oracle. Instead, he teaches people how to think about what’s ahead.
Tom Cheesewright works largely with big organisations, multinational corporations and government departments wanting to know what the next two to five years look like and what the big opportunities or threats might be 20–30 years ahead. He guides executives on how to do that thinking for themselves. There is a lot of storytelling involved and trying to convince people of the need for change and action. Most of his work is about innovation and organisational change. This ranges from developing a breakfast product to the shape of the future-ready organisation.
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