Asian Foresight Institute

The Asian Foresight Institute [AFI] is a privately funded futures research and design laboratory specializing in the integration of philosophy, foresight and strategy. Located at Dhurakij Pundit University in Bangkok the AFI has links into a global faculty as well as other strategic foresight institutions across Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
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Strategic Foresight is the capability to imagine and maintain alternative, coherent and integral forward views - using a variety of insights and observations - in the design of better, more sustainable and equitable futures. By detecting what is really going on around us and subjecting this to rigorous challenge and analysis we are able to perceive the flows in systemic dynamics that sustain flaws in our current thinking. Out of this we can create new intelligence, guide strategic policy and liberate new wisdom.

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The AFI's interests range across the entire field of human activities including the dynamics of whole systems; philosophies; languages; politics & governance; business; economics; nations & regions; cultures & customs; societies & civilization; science; technology; and the environment. [ ...read more ]

As we collaborate with people from every generation and from all walks of life, ethnicity and religious belief on improving, resolving or transcending wicked problems and complex issues, we try to extract the most pertinent aspects of our learning so that the more fundamental lessons can be shared and passed on to others. [ ...read more ]

Emergence is a strategic intelligence and advisory service offered by the AFI to all our clients. While it is almost impossible for any single organization to keep pace with the rate of change in our world, it is vital that they do so - or be trampled on by their competitors in the rush for new customers and new markets. Governments, too, need to constantly transform their capability and operations in order to remain relevant in an era of rapid change.

A great way of staying ahead is to create new intelligence. [ ...read more ]