Adam Vigdor Gordon

AU faculty in strategic foresight and executive leadership. I advance non-predictive future-readiness via research, seminars, workshops, talks, and executive education

Research

In the Strategic Foresight Research Network at Aarhus University Business School BSS, I investigate methods for enhancing leadership future-preparedness, including scenario planning, systems dynamics, design thinking, and trend audits.

Facilitation

Applied future-exploration-and-planning workshops. We roll up our sleeves to create signal-and trend-informed pathways. And we use this to guide innovation to compete in markets of tomorrow. Challenge your solutions before your clients do!

Presentations

Not the usual blah. This is a constantly updated guide to the seeds of tomorrow as already evident in today's signals and data. Events trends, disruptors, reframes. Delivered as keynote or bespoke briefings, either in-person or online.

Ongoing Publications

Gordon, A., Ramic, M., Rohrbeck, R, & Spaniol, S. (2020) 50 years of Corporate and Organizational Foresight: Looking Back and Going Forward. Technology Forecasting & Social Change. doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.119966
Gordon, A., (2020). Limits and Longevity: A Model for Scenarios that Aim to Influence the Future. Technology Forecasting & Social Change. doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119851
Gordon, A., (2020). Matrix Purpose in Scenario Planning: Implications of Congruence with Organization Purpose. Futures. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2019.102479
Gordon, A., Rohrbeck, R., and Schwarz J., (2019). Escaping the 'Faster Horses' Trap: Bridging Strategic Foresight and Design-Based Innovation. Technology Innovation Management Review. doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1259
Rohrbeck, R., Menes, E., Jyssink, T., & Gordon, A (2018). Corporate Foresight Benchmarking Report: How Leading Firms Build a Superior Position in Markets of the Future. doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3178562

Forbes.com Leadership

https://forbes.com/sites/adamgordon/

Education in Strategic Foresight Tools & Methods

(Among the) executive courses I teach, onsite and online::

Strategic Foresight

Tools, methods and perspectives of industry and strategic foresight. Topics: Horizon scanning; trend tracking; cognitive biases; forecast filtering; systems thinking; risk management; scenario planning; navigating complexity; ideation and design thinking; integrating resources; strategy formation; product and service evolution; business model innovation.

Scenario Planning

A course focused on scenario planning, covering various approaches to the topic. In longer versions (4-days) delegates develop scenarios as a primary learning activity. Topics: horizon scanning; trend tracking; issue recognition; management paradigms; levels of uncertainty; adaptive scenarios, advocacy scenarios; building scenarios; from scenarios to strategy.

Design Thinking

Teaching the principles of design thinking and rapid prototyping for product and service advancement. Normally applied to live in-progress innovation situation.Topics: Principles of design; formalist approaches to creativity; ideation; productivity of limits; user analysis; prototyping and renewal; design-based innovation; design and strategy formation.