Developing Foresight Capability at William Rainey Harper College 4

Objectives

This workshop is designed to assist you in working with your colleagues to systematically factor the external environment into the strategic planning process. The specific objectives are to:

• identify potential events that could affect higher education;


• derive implications and recommend actions vis-à-vis these potential events; and


• review anticipatory management tools and techniques to meet and deal with potential events.

Procedures

Please read the following articles that help provide the context for our deliberations.

• James Ogilvy, The Information Revolution.


• David Pearce Snyder, High Tech and Higher Education: A Wave of Creative Destruction is Rolling Toward the Halls of Academe, Parts I and II.


• James L. Morrison, Paradigm Shifts.


• Terry O'Banion, Schooling is Out-Learning is In.


• Donald M. Norris, Perpetual Learning as a Revolutionary Creation.


• James L. Morrison and Ian Wilson, The Strategic Management Response to the Challenge of Global Change.


• William C. Ashley and James L. Morrison, Anticipatory Management Tools for the 21st Century.