{"id":3574,"date":"2022-05-13T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/six.stimulatingminds.co.uk\/?post_type=programme&p=3574"},"modified":"2022-06-06T03:44:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T03:44:17","slug":"strategic-foresight","status":"publish","type":"programme","link":"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/programme\/six-funders-node\/retreats\/strategic-foresight\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic foresight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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August 2018, Wasan Island,
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In the face of new and increasingly complex challenges and emergent trends, how can foundations become future-responsive rather than past-driven?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The practice of strategic foresight has been a tool mainly used by corporations, enabling them to steady themselves for the future and protect business concerns against the turbulent modern world. To take these strategic foresight tools and methods into the context of funding might give philanthropy the opportunity to build capacity as a means of taking a more active – rather than reactive approach – to tackling the most pressing societal issues. The practice of strategic foresight also has the potential to provide foundations with a longer view on society\u2019s issues, and a greater ability to change systems in more profound and sustainable ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the retreat<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Global funders came together for three days to learn from each other, provide cases, stories, practical strategies and frameworks around how to expand thinking of what is possible, rather than predicting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This retreat gave funders the opportunity to exchange their deep insight, knowledge and experience and support each other to answer the question – how should we fund the future? It explored how to engage with the emergent nature of our complex challenges, how to nurture the future scenarios we strive to see and how the field can systematically improve its foresight and leverage this into action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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