by Maria Jeansson | Nov 20, 2020 | Foresight Thoughts
At Imperial Tech Foresight, we believe in anticipating the future by identifying ‘weak signals of change’. This is nothing new. In 1970s, Igor Ansoff, a Russian American mathematician and business manager, coined the term ‘weak signals’. In essence, they are murmurs...
by Maria Jeansson | Jul 24, 2020 | Disruptive Technologies, Foresight Thoughts, Technology Insight
The session was part of a series of Tech Tonic events that helps the bank explore the future disruption from different insight areas. We created a lightbulb session based on the Disruptive Table, and the following topic areas: 3D Printing Food and Pharmaceuticals,...
by Maria Jeansson | Jun 3, 2020 | Foresight Thoughts
Designing the future has been the quest of individuals and companies since time immemorial. The successful leaders of the past had legacy and empire as their focus; Alexander the Great, of course, famously crying when there were no more lands left to conquer. But...
by Maria Jeansson | Jun 3, 2020 | Foresight Thoughts
We are increasingly allowing digital to be a part of our physical world. We all know of Cambridge Analytica, but have recently seen new scandals such as Sidewalk Labs having to stop short on building their “smart neighbourhood” in Toronto to facial...
by Maria Jeansson | Jun 3, 2020 | Foresight Thoughts
In this session, we want to highlight ideas that could inspire us to think about the future. The state of emergency caused by the coronavirus crisis has raised many different discussions and reflections across businesses and society. We are all considering “what...
by Claudio Sanna | Apr 22, 2020 | Foresight Thoughts
Professor John Conway loved solving simple problems that revealed big truths. Gifted at using metaphors to simplify difficult mathematical and abstract concepts, he enjoyed his hunt for mathematical epiphanies. He considered his research as “play” and discovered...
