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Futurists is a term used to describe management science consultants who advise private and public orgainizations on diverse global trends, risk management and emerging market opportunities. Some countries call these interdisciplinary practitioners Futurologist. A key element of all management is being able to anticipate what competitors, employees and customers are likely to do next, in the context of a rapidly changing wider world. Thus it is true that to some extent all effective leaders are futurists. The futurists are also a group of artists.
Future thinking A key part of futuring is managing uncertainty and risk. Some trends are relatively clear - for example the fall of telecom costs towards zero or the aging demographics of many countries in Western Europe. The issue is often more about timing than the nature of the events themselves. Others are very hard to predict, including significant numbers of so-called Wild Cards, or low probability, but high impact events. See Futures Studies Quotations on the Future Dr. William Crossman - Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Cultures | ||||||||
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