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    Directed Fiction: Scanning the future with scenario prompts
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 14

    Directed Fiction: Scanning the future with scenario prompts

    Directed Fiction Defined: Directed fiction is a strategic foresight tool designed to simultaneously consider multiple plausible future...
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    Alternative Futures: The use of fiction to explore competing visions
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: The use of fiction to explore competing visions

    Abstract: Alternate Futures are compared using the foresight technique of Directed Fiction. Directed Fiction seeks to blend the foresight...
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    Alternative Futures: Growth and Decay
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Growth and Decay

    Appendix A. Appendix A to Alternative Futures describes a world in which we see a continuation of the current economic status quo, big...
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    Alternative Futures: Threats and New Hope
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Threats and New Hope

    Appendix B. Appendix B to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event is immanent. The emphasis is on how...
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    Alternative Futures: Wasteworlds
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Wasteworlds

    Appendix C. Appendix C to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event has already occurred. There have been...
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    Alternative Futures: The Powers that Be
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: The Powers that Be

    Appendix D. Appendix D to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event or phenomenon (often man-made) has already...
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    Alternative Futures: Disarray
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Disarray

    Appendix E. Appendix E to Alternative Futures describes a world in which we see a recognizable world absent of apparent transformations,...
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    Alternative Futures: Inversion
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Feb 7

    Alternative Futures: Inversion

    Appendix F. Appendix F to Alternative Futures highlights what is perhaps the greatest strength of science fiction for use as a tool for...
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    Imagining the Future: The rapid classification of fiction archetypes
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jan 17

    Imagining the Future: The rapid classification of fiction archetypes

    Abstract: Classifying fiction illuminates the future. The technique for imagining the future presented in this paper using a rapid,...
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    Book Review - Becoming a Professional Futurist: A Five-Step Approach
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Dec 29, 2021

    Book Review - Becoming a Professional Futurist: A Five-Step Approach

    For sound and practical advice, tons of useful information, and an assortment of extremely helpful tools, “Becoming a Professional...
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    Strategic Foresight – Axes of Uncertainty
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Dec 7, 2021

    Strategic Foresight – Axes of Uncertainty

    (paid link) Debunking Preterism by Brock David Hollett: This book grew on me. My initial interest in Christian eschatology was sparked by...
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    How Do You Use Strategic Foresight?
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Dec 7, 2021

    How Do You Use Strategic Foresight?

    One of the explicit motivations for writing my novel was to showcase some of the tools and techniques of Strategic Foresight for a...
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    Strategic Foresight - Futurism
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jul 1, 2021

    Strategic Foresight - Futurism

    (paid link) Future Smart by James Canton: Increasing velocity and complexity define the world, and you’d better figure out how to deal...
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    Strategic Foresight - Futurism
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jul 1, 2021

    Strategic Foresight - Futurism

    (paid link) Futuring - The Exploration of the Future by Edward Cornish: This is a book I really love. Edward Cornish is the president of...
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    Strategic Foresight - Futurism
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jul 1, 2021

    Strategic Foresight - Futurism

    (paid link) Future Savvy by Adam Gordon: Before we delve into the complex, difficult, and sometimes even dangerous world of futurism, it...
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    Strategic Foresight - Systems Thinking
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jul 1, 2021

    Strategic Foresight - Systems Thinking

    (paid link) Business Analytics by Randy Bartlett: Strategic Foresight is a lot more than just studying graphs and charts and making...
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    Systems Thinking - Examples
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jun 29, 2021

    Systems Thinking - Examples

    BDAC and Humanitarian Relief Operations With the rise of modernity, basic humanitarian disaster relief activities have given way to...
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    Strategic Foresight
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jun 29, 2021

    Strategic Foresight

    (paid link) Scenario Planning in Organizations by Thomas Chermack: The first rule of the Futurist is: Do not make point predictions....
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    Foresight Scenario Testing - Part 4
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jun 28, 2021

    Foresight Scenario Testing - Part 4

    SWOT Analysis Introduction This variation of the SWOT analysis differs significantly from traditional business applications which focus...
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    Foresight Scenario Testing - Part 3
    Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
    • Jun 28, 2021

    Foresight Scenario Testing - Part 3

    A quick visual representation of the Stress Test is possible by comparing PIRA’s six strategies to provide shelter to one million people...
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