A question that everybody asks at some point in time is "What does the future hold?" Most people have a clearly defined route of where they want their lives to go, from careers to love life to money! How many times does this 'plan' actually play out the way we want it to?We had a very interesting lecture last Thursday from Ian Kendrick on scenario thinking. He started the lecture with a very powerful story about an older lady and her plans for the next couple of weeks over the Christmas holidays. She was to enjoy Xmas with her family in her new home and see her grandchild for the time. Everything was in place, her family were on the way and the champagne was in ice. All of a sudden, the peace was shattered by a loud rumbling noise. The old lady went outside into her garden where she could make a shape out at the bottom of her garden. On closer inspection, she dicovered a young man strapped to a seat, dead. A loud explosion was heard a couple of miles away and the air was filled with debris. The woman lived near Lockerbie in 1988.
In those days, not many people could have envisaged such an event happening, but today, based on past experience, people would think such an event could happen. Businesses need to be able to cope with the future and as such need to plan for possible scenarios becoming reality or at least be aware that they may happen!
I found an interesting video on YouTube, which clearly shows one companies thoughts on what the future holds both for them and their customers.
As I questioned previously in my blog entitled "Are Blogs the new Time Capsules?", could blogs become the new 'soft' version of the Time Capsule?
I invite you now to post your version of 'The Future' and lets see if it becomes reality!
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