VFS is a planning and implementation firm that specializes in foresight and strategy development.
Clients value our work with them because it enables them to see the bigger picture with more clarity and with a longer view, a perspective that provides them the insight to craft innovative strategy and the foresight to anticipate truly strategic change
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Conflict in Hawai'i: 2012 and Beyond
The arrival of a new year inevitably brings the usual raft of predictions and Top 10 lists from media outlets attempting to frame the challenges of the coming year. As professional futurists, our training is less in making point forecasts for a 12-month period and more about developing a broader and deeper context for change. Having said that, we can still offer a forecast concerning the social, economic, and political contexts that will be evident in 2012 but which will gain in importance in the coming years.
The following are five key “tensions” that are already evident in Hawai‘i, and which are likely to become more apparent as the current decade unfolds. Each of these represents differences in values and worldviews that, while often unspoken or unexamined, point to the deeper tensions at work beneath the surface of many community and policy issues we face today. As always, understanding the deeper motives and differences that exist among us is key to developing truly effective and beneficial strategies.
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Foresight Seminar with Dr. Ted Farrington of PepsiCo Advanced Research
VFS was fortunate to host a talk by Dr. Ted Farrington from PepsiCo Advanced Research on January 17. Executives, entrepreneurs, and students got to hear about PepsiCo's recent "Research Foresights" project (of which VFS was a part) and their experiences and successes in institutionalizing foresight in their company.
Mahalo to the Manoa Innovation Center for their help and participation. |
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Hawai'i Futures Summit 2011
Held on October 7 and 8, 2011, Vision Foresight Strategy's annual event for strategic thinking was a wonderful success! This past year's attendees covered topics ranging from the economy to education to population and land use, exploring both seminal historical events that produced the present and the emerging issues possing both challenges and opportunities for the next 30 years.
The 2012 Summit will take place on October 5 and 6. |
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