{"id":519,"date":"2011-10-13T12:18:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T23:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?page_id=519"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:26:00","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?page_id=519","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger063.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1113 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger063-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger063-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger063-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger063-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger063-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roger063.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I consult in foresight and long term thinking. I&#8217;m based in New Zealand, and support government bodies and companies across Asia, Europe and Australasia.<\/p>\n<p>I was a Senior Fellow (non resident) at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/expert\/roger-dennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scowcroft Centre at The Atlantic Council<\/a><\/strong> from 2020-2023.<\/p>\n<p>Among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?page_id=485\">other things<\/a>, I helped set up Future Agenda \u2013 the worlds largest open source foresight programme (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureagenda.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.futureagenda.org<\/a>).\u00a0 Prior to this I co-led the 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www-static.shell.com\/static\/innovation\/downloads\/innovation\/technology_futures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shell Technology Futures <\/a>programme for the GameChanger team in The Hague and co-wrote and edited the book that resulted from the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Before this I was at egg \u2013 the pioneering European internet bank, where I worked in London on areas as diverse as the online gaming industry and deploying financial services on smart-phones.<\/p>\n<p>As part of my work I\u2019m interested in weak signals from the edges that give clues about the future.<\/p>\n<p>I like to discuss why forming strategy without knowing about the future is like pouring coffee without a cup. In addition, I also like to talk about why a strategy without an innovation capacity is akin to walking very slowly on the same spot.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve worked in a range of sectors including telecommunications, infrastructure, energy, transportation as well as advising governments on foresight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I consult in foresight and long term thinking. I&#8217;m based in New Zealand, and support government bodies and companies across Asia, Europe and Australasia. I was a Senior Fellow (non resident) at the Scowcroft Centre at The Atlantic Council from 2020-2023. Among other things, I helped set up Future Agenda \u2013 the worlds largest open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}