Open Futures Book

448 pages
22 X 22 cm
1.1 Kg
370 photos & original illustrations
10 case Studies
Examples from 30 Future Centers from 9 countries
2 years exploration tour
13 Operating Principles
10 Building Blocks
49 Quizic

OpenFutures
An Operating System for Future Centers
By OpenFutures experts:
Paolo Mario Remo Martinez, Leif Edvinsson, Hank Kune, Ron Dvir, Sune Knudsen, Terrence Fernando, JoaquinaBarullas, Edna Pasher, Rachel Pezzlo, Ofir Eyal, Yael Schwartzberg, Henrik Danckwardt, Caroline Dunne, MortenHejlesen, JurKosterbok, Herman Meines, Barth van Dijk, Tomasz Rudolf, Sergiusz Sawin, Lukasz Galach
Edited by Ron Dvir
Designed by Bar Dvir
Illustrations by Arye Dvir
Language editor: Diana Rubanenko
2008

Contents

The world in boxes?
How does your organization create value?
Why do organizations have future centers?
Organizations need systematic approaches and tools to address the future proactively

Future Centers are Innovation Environments
Varieties of Future Centers
What makes Future Centers unique?
What Future Centers have in Common
Operating Principles and Values

Vision AND value proposition
Operating Principles
Methodology and Tools
Physical Space
Technologies
Organization
Models
Lifecycle
People
Business models
Performance Management and Impact

Model 1: Foresight Outlook
Model 2: The Idea Pipeline
Model 3: Think Tank
Model 4: The Future Generations
Model 5: Distributed Future Centers
Model 6: The intellectual capital incubator
Model 7: Technology Shock
Model 8: Work In Process
Model 9: Community Involvement

The bridge
The Tornado
The Hub
The Lab
The Ship (yard)
The Outlook
The Idea Pipeline
And…

The Knowledge-Creation Process
The SECI model
4 Categories of Ba
Future Center as Ba

Dissemination and anchoring results
Positioning the center in the organization
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
Best Blunders
Mission and goals
Products and services
Programming
The Future Center Work process Learning and renewal

20 Methodology Sheets:
Wild cards <> Project house <> Brain pool writing with technology shocks <> GOOP <> The Horror and the Dream Scenario <> Strategic Scenario Analysis <>and more
The Futurizing Process
Tools Portfolio
Using and Developing the Portfolio

Future Centers are Different
Why a Physical Perspective
Why invest in the physical aspect?
The feelings we aim to create
The Future Center as landmark, image, and brand
Understanding a Space – the Senses
The 16 Factors:
Location and buildings <> Good neighborhood and multi-functionalism <> Functional spaces and layouts <> Ambiance <> Surprises – the WOW! Effect <> The gate to the future
<> Sense 1: Sight <> ……

How technologies catalyze innovation
Functions and impact
Technologies and the How to Develop the Technological

Technologies Sheets:
Idea Incubators<> Technologies for Knowledge-creation <> Shared Knowledge Pools <> Collaborative 3D Environments<>Virtual Team Visualisation <> Collaborative Performance Management <> Scenarios Support Technologies

The team: the director, the program managers, the front and back office, the facilitators, the subject experts,…..
The customers, the participants, and other stakeholders.

How do Future Centers add value?
Why Future Centers are effective
Results
Broader impact: The Future Center and the world

Phase I: Ideation
Phase II: Planning
Phase III: Launch and Piloting
Phase IV: Operation
Phase V: Transformation

From Idea into Action
How to manage the Future Center lifecycle?

Return on Investment (ROI)
The Triple Bottom Line
Being a perfect “10” in formulating a Future Center Business model
Futurizing as a strategic model
Guidelines
Public and private models
Choosing a funding model

The strategic dimension of Future Centers
Open Futures Performance Management Model
Philosophy
The key ingredients f the PMM
The process
Guidelines for effective implementation of the PMM
Technological platform of Open

Virtual visit to 10Future Centers in 7 countries .
For each: the vision <> the history <> the services <> the senses & space <> the team

OpenFutures cards: Four groups of cards covering four perspectives: :
organizational, methodological, physical technological.
The cards include a brief introduction to their themes, examples from real-world Future Centers, Quizzics and a relevant visual on the other side.

Meet the people behind this book: partners from 7 countries.

The 2 international future centers summit – the Leonardo da Vinci Exploration Tour, Tuscany, 2006
At work

The OpenFutures film shows 15 Future Centers across Europe. It presents their history, explains why they are there, how they work, what they look like, how people work there, and when to use Future Centers.

Lisbon. A one day workshop to rapidly prototype the concept of Future Centers to address real world challenges in 4 domains:

Energy
Transport
Health Care
Regional Development

Breathing Life Into a Future Center
Future Centers as Groundbreaking Management Innovations
In Search of the Business Model
The Basic Elements of the Business Model
Generic Future Center Business Models

How will the Future Centers of the future look like?
Here we explore 10 scenarios for alternative concepts
Virtual <> Nomadic <> Networked <> Mega <Transparent> and more.

To order a copy:openfuturesbook@gmail.com