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AndSpace Consulting and Foresight Alliance have completed a Weak Signals Report for the Industrial Research Institute, identifying 23 “new patterns of emergent change” that will impact research management over the next 25 years.
The Industrial Research Institute is an association of companies and government laboratories dedicated to making technological innovation more effective by networking practitioners and thought leaders. The Institute is in the midst of IRI2038, a foresight project examining how “possible future developments, trends, and events [will] impact the art and science of research and technology management over the next 25 years” and how IRI can serve its members in light of these future changes.
Foresight Alliance has been working with futurist Christian Crews of AndSpace Consulting to support IRI 2038. IRI 2038 has four phases: Discovery, Extrapolation, Integration, and Planning. Two phases have been completed to date.
The Discovery Phase included a Weak Signals Report that outlined trends and emerging issues that will impact the future of research and technology management in unexpected ways. Foresight Alliance worked with AndSpace to help create the Weak Signals Report.
The Extrapolation Phase included both an Expert Panel, in which people directly involved in emerging trends discussed the future trajectory of some of the key weak signals identified in the Discovery phase, and Implications Wheels, through which IRI members extrapolated some of the emerging trends into the future. Foresight Alliance facilitated a working session with IRI members to develop a couple of the Implications Wheels (photo). We also produced an additional Implications Wheel internally. Implications Wheels are a powerful tool for understanding how emerging changes will impact organizations and stakeholders.
It’s been a privilege to work with the IRI membership, with project leaders Ted Farrington of PepsiCo and Jennifer Blenkle of IRI, and with AndSpace in this important process affecting the global community of research managers.
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