Dana

1. Scanning is a tool that allows us to ---------

• A. see what are some assumptions that people have

• B. read about government views of the future

• C. find trends from different sources

• D. look closely at our thought processes

2. In this question, apply your understanding of the Ladder of Inference to the manager. According to the text, what assumption is made by the manager?

You are the manager of a famous bank. One member of your team of developers has not been performing well recently. You think he doesn’t care about his work. He has missed deadlines and several projects were delayed because of this. You decide he is not suitable for the job and decide to fire him from the job.

• 1. Missed deadlines and delayed projects

• 4. Member of the team of developers

• 3. Fire him from the job

• 2. Doesn’t care about his work

3. In this question, apply your understanding of the Ladder of Inference to the manager. According to the text, what is the data being selected?

You are the manager of a famous bank. One member of your team of developers has not been performing well recently. You think he doesn’t care about his work. He has missed deadlines and several projects were delayed because of this. You decide he is not suitable for the job and decide to fire him from the job.

• A. Fire him from his job

• B. Not suitable for the job

• D. Missing deadlines and projects delayed

• C. Doesn’t care about his work

4. Which STEEP area dose this example connect with?

As transport solutions have become better in cities this has resulted in developing products like driverless cars and new forms of transport. To make this happen governments have had to introduce policies.

• A. Technological and Political

• D. Economic and Environmental

• B. Environmental and Technological

• C. Economic and Political

5. How do we create a pattern in Future Foresight?

• A. By seeing how different trends connect together

• B. By applying a trend to the Casual Layered Analysis tool

• C. By using trends that are in the technology area of STEEP

• D. By focusing on just one trend

6. Which description best matches the wildcard on the Impact Analysis chart?

• B. Something that is going to have very little effect on us or our country

• D. Something we already know about and have planned for

• C. Something that can take us by surprise and have a great effect on us

• A. Something that we can ignore as it is not going to be important

7. What do we use the Impact Analysis tool for in Future Foresight?

• A. Looking at the assumptions and beliefs under our topic

• B. Seeing which trends would be most useful to focus on

• C. Understanding how difficult it is to plan for the future

• D. Matching trends to different STEEP areas

8. In the acronym V.U.C.A, volatility describe a situation that is -------------.

• A. quickly changing

• C. made up of many parts

• D. fixed and unchanging

• B. unclear and unknown

9. Where in the Future Foresight framework does scanning take place?

• A. Exploring

• B. Planning

• C. Developing

• D. Describing

10. Which level of the Causal Layered Analysis tool looks at our unconscious feeling and emotions?

• A. Facts

• Worldview

• C. Myth

• D. Social causes