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SAMI are futures domain experts, using tailored foresight techniques and expert-led futures exploration to deliver actionable insights and robust strategies.

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How is the quality of foresight affected by the quality of data? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/be…

Better Data, Better Future: Why the quality of foresight now depends on the quality of data

This blog is the fourth in the SIP blog series, a set of blogs shared among the partners of the Sustainable Innovation Pathways project. This cross-border, collaborative effort brings together...

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Some thoughts on some recent ESPAS horizon scanning and future trends: samiconsulting.co.uk/post/es…

ESPAS Horizon Scanning

We recently reviewed the EC Strategic Foresight Report, entitled Resilience 2.0, but ESPAS (the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System) also produces frequent Horizon Scanning reports. Their...

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Some toughts on the UK Governemnt’s Resilience Action Plan: samiconsulting.co.uk/post/th…

The UK Government Resilience Action Plan

The Resilience Action Plan, produced by the Cabinet Office, sets out the Government's strategic approach to resilience. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, describes how the whole...

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How might the use of AI impact on futures practice? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/fu…

Futures Practice in an Age of AI – Beyond Prediction to Engagement

This is an edited version of the presentation which Jonathan Blanchard Smith delivered to the Futures4Europe Conference 2025, held in Vienna, 14-15 May, which explored the theme of Futures-Oriented...

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How might AI impact strategic foresight? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/be…

Beyond Scenarios: Five Ways AI Is Reshaping Strategic Foresight

Most of us who think about the future—professionally, strategically, or just out of curiosity—have probably tried asking ChatGPT to generate scenarios about how the world might look in a decade. At...

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Have you thought about food resilience in the UK? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/ju…

Just in Case: 7 steps to narrow the UK civil food resilience gap

Back in February, the National Preparedness Commission published a report on the resilience of the UK’s food system. It is a substantial, detailed piece of work, an Executive Summary plus the main...

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Some thoughts about the melting Arctic ice: samiconsulting.co.uk/post/im…

Implications of Arctic ice melting

One of the challenges of Futures thinking is the way that trends and drivers interact with each other in complex ways, creating unexpected second- and third-order effects which typically can be...

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What weak signals do you pay attention to? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/we…

Weak signals in Science and Technologies – 2024

The EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has recently published a report on technology horizon scanning they conducted during 2024, identifying weak signals in science and technology. The report identi...

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Some thoughts on our list of drivers for change: samiconsulting.co.uk/post/dr…

Drivers of change – faster and faster, deeper and wider

SAMI continues to maintain and track key drivers of change through ongoing horizon scanning, and we noted a couple of years ago that the rate of change was increasing. In this latest update, we pick...

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So was the fire at Heathrow a ‘black swan’ event? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/he…

Heathrow – black swan or white elephant?

It is a week since a fire at an electricity substation forced the closure of Heathrow airport for 24 hours, much to annoyance of several thousand air passengers. The government has demanded an...

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Futures thinking in an uncertain world: samiconsulting.co.uk/post/no…

No solid place to stand – futures thinking in times of increasing uncertainty

For the past many years, future and foresight practitioners have been able to base their work on ground that is stable enough to support reasoned assumptions and thoughtful scenario development. But...

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Have we moved further into the Oak scenario? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/de…

Deeper into the Forest

Finding paths through the “World in Oak”These days you may find yourself waking up in the morning, switching on or logging into the news, and immediately wishing you had not. The world seems to have...

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Have we moved further into the Oak scenario? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/de…

Deeper into the Forest

Finding paths through the “World in Oak”These days you may find yourself waking up in the morning, switching on or logging into the news, and immediately wishing you had not. The world seems to have...

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Some thoughts on the recently published OECD Strategic Foresight Toolkit: samiconsulting.co.uk/post/oe…

OECD Strategic Foresight Toolkit for Resilient Public Policy

The OECD has launched its new Strategic Foresight Toolkit. This features a five-step foresight process, designed to help policy makers evaluate the future-readiness of long-term strategies and...

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How useful are feedback loops iwhen looking at scenarios? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/op…

Opportunities, risks and feedback loops

A tool which futurists often want to introduce into any comprehensive futures study is some form of feedback loop – run the outputs of the futures work back round the participants one more time, to...

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How will AI affect leadership intelligence? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/le…

Leadership Intelligence – in the age of AI

The following blog, written by Garry Honey, SAMI Associate, was previously published on Board Agenda at https://boardagenda.com/2025/01/13/leadership-intelligence-in-the-age-of-ai/ and he has kindly...

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Some thoughts on the latest WEF Global Risks Report: samiconsulting.co.uk/post/wo…

World Economic Forum Global Risk Report 2025

It’s that time of year when various luminaries gather in Davos to sort out the world. They do so as President Trump takes office and starts to disrupt the previous world order. There are strong...

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Some thoughts on engaging people when facilitating futures thinking: samiconsulting.co.uk/post/fa…

Facilitating Futures 2 – working with participants

In our blog of November last year, we said, “Facilitation is a skill. It can be learned”. In that blog, we offered some thoughts about how to facilitate, and some of the considerations you need to...

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Interested in the latest thinking on trends from Finland: samiconsulting.co.uk/post/th…

The Strategic Operating Environment in Finland

As the first step in their annual Report on the Future, the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office has published its view of the “Strategic Operating Environment” (in Finnish). This set of Futures trends...

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Want some new ideas to help you make decisions? samiconsulting.co.uk/post/th…

The Possibility Wheel

We are observing that the changes that mark the end of the historic phase of economic growth throughout the last century, mean that it’s increasingly difficult to make decisions. Yet the quality of...

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