What is the difference between Future Studies and Innovation?

1. x

2. 1990

5. Venture Teams
Prototyping
Co-Creation
Business Design
Design Thinking
TRIZ
KAIZEN
Crowdsourcing
Realization
Realization
Understanding
Understanding
Understanding
Solutions
Solutions
Solutions
Open Innovation Solutions
Brainstorming Solutions

7. Problem Solving
Cognition
AttentionMemory
Reasoning
Language
Learning
Imagination

8. (inspired by Emily Empel)
We work with
possibilities,
insights and
logics.
What society
believes we do
What the clients
thinks we do
What we really do

9. Human mortality
based on wrong
decision making (USA)
1900 2000
5%
55%
(Dan Ariely, 2013; image: manufacturingintelligence.be)

10. Innovation uses inputs
from the future for its
idea creation and
problem solving
process.
Futuring explores
changes and generates
inputs for the
innovation and
strategic process.
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11. Innovation
Futuring
Creates solutions for already existing problems
Identifies future problems and asks new
strategic questions.

12. Futuring
Strategy
Alignment
Positioning
Control
Logics
Changes
Perspectives/Insights
Problem Solving
Creativity
Contextualization

13. • Generates ideas and concepts
• Succeeds the strategic planning
• Stimulates creativity and idea
generation
• Integrates existing contexts
• Generates a resource conflict
• Attempts to solve existing
problems and situations
• Generates results in the short
term
• Team or collaboratively
working style
• Information Thinking
• Survival through creativity
• Observation and Opinions
• Creates new logics and
scenarios
• Precedes the strategic
planning
• Stimulates foresights and
pattern identification
• Integrates past, present and
future contexts
• Prioritizes future resources
• Anticipates strategic
questions
• Aligns the organization for
the future value generation
• Network of people
• System Thinking
• Survival through anticipation
• Logics and Visions
x

14. @Daniel_Egger
daniel@foltigo.com
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