{"id":208,"date":"2008-11-09T16:53:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T08:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=208"},"modified":"2009-04-08T06:33:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T22:33:59","slug":"gary-hamel-on-foresight-strategy-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Gary Hamel on foresight, strategy and innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quote that resonated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The future is much more important than the new, the hip and the cool. The fashion and communications industries may rely on a constant feed of zeitgeisty whims, but product designers and strategists need to develop a deeper understanding of change. Our timeframes are too long and problems too complex for such fluff. Management thinker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyhamel.com\/\">Gary Hamel<\/a> frames foresight as being &#8220;prescient about the size and shape of tomorrow&#8217;s opportunities&#8221; by building an &#8220;assumption base about the future&#8221; based on &#8220;deep insights into the trends.&#8221; His advice that &#8220;strategy must be created from the future backwards, not the present forwards&#8221; also underlines the short-termism of much of today&#8217;s innovation activity which places too much emphasis on what consumers said last month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/featured_items\/beyond_the_schlock_of_the_new_eight_strategies_for_design_and_foresight_by_kevin_mccullagh_10912.asp\">Core77<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote that resonated: The future is much more important than the new, the hip and the cool. The fashion and communications industries may rely on a constant feed of zeitgeisty whims, but product designers and strategists need to develop a deeper understanding of change. Our timeframes are too long and problems too complex for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futures-thinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}