IFTF Executive Director Marina Gorbis guest blogged for BoingBoing.net from July 6 – 20, 2009. The following posts are excerpts from the series. For the full posts, click “Keep Reading” below or visit BoingBoing.net.

Thank you so much for allowing me to engage you in a conversation. Our signature process at the Institute for the Future is what we call “Foresight to Insight to Action.” We don’t predict the future, because nobody can do that. Rather, we create provocative but realistic visions of the future. We use those forecasts to engage people in conversations about what this particular future might mean to them and to their organizations, what is important, what they need to pay attention to, what challenges they might be facing. Those are the insights that they can then use to develop action steps to achieve a desirable future.

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