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Future Ready: Engaging with the Future in the Present

This workshop explores the importance of preparing for the future, gathering evidence, and taking early action. Discover how to sense opportunities and risks, develop future-proof skills, and design innovative products or services. Join us to create your own action roadmap and become future ready.

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Future Ready: Engaging with the Future in the Present

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  1. Future Ready : Get there Early IEEC 2017

  2. Why engage with the future in the present?

  3. Mary Smith : Spittalfields London

  4. Today…..!

  5. Shorter evolution periods within a generation…..

  6. What timescale do we attach the passing of a generation…..? • One generation’s impossible is the next generation’s normal ( Samsung)

  7. Microsoft News : Future Proofing You • Space Junk Architect • Memory Storage Specialist • Rewilding Strategist • Virtual Habitat Designer • Ethical Technical Advocate

  8. How do you feel about the pace of change? • Is technology bringing us closer together or pushing us further apart?

  9. A new co-worker of health worker…?

  10. Meet Sofia …..

  11. Business as usual…….! • Blockbuster : lost out to Netflix. • Kodak : lost out to Digital Photography. • Nokia : failed to spot how people were engaging with mobile technology.

  12. Agile? • Google - giving broadband away • Microsoft – embracing the hackers • Amazon – bucking the trend for online retail • BrewDog – giving away their Intellectual Property

  13. Future Jobs : Future Prosperity • We need to anticipate the future changes which automation and artificial intelligence require from our education system. • Scotland must find a way to support its start –ups and scale up its small and medium enterprises to tackle the productivity gap. The public sector must embrace innovation, and build on the great examples of people using new tools to meet the challenges of today • Future Jobs : Future Prosperity

  14. Developing a ‘futurati’ mindset ‘No one can predict the future but you can think about it systematically and turn uncertainty into inspiration, creativity and resilience’ Bob Johansen : Get there Early

  15. Working towards a preferred future • We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims R. Buckminster Fuller

  16. Framework or foundation for this workshop • The ‘Future of Mobile Technology’ • Timeline is 5- 10 years ( be provocative) • But…. we will come back to the present.

  17. Future Ready – Working towards a preferred future Preparing your mind Gathering evidence or signals in the present Getting there early Sensing the future Opportunities & risks

  18. Big shifts : Mobile technology

  19. Internet of People

  20. Toolkit: Designing an artefact or service of the future • Making these human experiences tangible in the present. • This is how the future looks and feels and I can engage with it now. • Designing new products or services that get there first or developing skills that keep me future proof. • Insight

  21. Toolkit : Designing Artefacts of the Future • Randomly select two signals . From maximum impact take two that at first glance seem unrelated. • Drill deep into the ‘so what’ of each signal. Is there a core technology or a core user . • What is the big shift or direction of change? • Imagine encountering all three in a single surprising future experience. What is the innovation space or the innovations we will see.?

  22. My three encounters Signals – vibrating yoga pants, virtual reality Big Shift – technology doing things better than humans Innovation – virtual reality yoga on a beach in Bali ( still in Edinburgh) and with no need for a yoga teacher. My current idea – Yoga school Future proofing - any decisions/inventions needed now

  23. Toolkit: Turning our foresight into human experience • Employer– how will these scenarios turn into reality for them?. Immerse yourself in their future world. • What products and services will they be using? Refer to the innovations you created in the previous exercise. • Who and what will they interact with? • What will their market place look like? • What new skills will they be looking for? • What challenges are they facing? • What are their goals and aspirations?

  24. Toolkit: Future Personas Students– how will these scenarios turn into reality for them? Immerse yourself in their future world. • What products and services will they be using? Will they be using your innovation? • Who and what will they interact with? • What new skills will they have or need? • What challenges are they facing and how can you prepare them? • What makes them happy, what are their aspirations?

  25. Future Ready – The Process Preparing your mind Gathering evidence or signals in the present Getting there early Sensing the future Opportunities & risks

  26. Action – Disrupt/Get there early • Action • Choose a timeline – small monthly steps to start with. • Build an action roadmap. • Stimulus and response – start some conversations in the space. • SIE Signal Diary

  27. Take away from today The future is already here – its just not very evenly distributed Novelist : William Gibson

  28. Thank You /scottishinstituteforenterpise / @_sie • Ann Davidson : a.davidson@sie.ac.uk

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