Our three guests have different views on the future of work and how we can work with the signals to shape the future we find most likeable.
Susanne brings the corporate views and how you can apply the signals in your leadership. Jasmina connects the signals to opportunities within the world of startups. And Carsten helps us to look forward, how do we approach the signals and move forward.
Read more about each guest below and find the full interviews on our YouTube channel.
Susanne Palsten Buchardt is Vice President at Novozymes in the Agriculture & Industrial Biosolution unit. With a keen interest in both people and technology, her progressive approach to New Ways of Working is an inspiration to many, both employees and peer leaders at work.
Jasmina Pless is Head of Entrepreneurship at the Danish Chamber of Commerce, in Danish called “Dansk Erhverv”. She focuses on the Danish startup scene, on the life of entrepreneurs, and on the political landscape that is part of shaping the ecosystem for entrepreneurship.
Carsten Beck is Director of research at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, or CIFS for short. Carsten has been a futurist for the past 30 years and is a good friend of the house. In his role he delivers keynotes and presentations for a wide variety of sectors and audiences, both for global organizations and in small workshops.
A Horizon Scanning Document is one of the absolute cornerstones in a Futures Thinking process. Such a document contains signals, anomalies, trends, and reflections related to a specific domain, for example, the Future of Food, the Future of Play, the Future of Urban Living … or (as for this document) the Futures of Work.
This kind of document is curated by experts in the field, who constantly spend time scanning the media, publications, academia, and the frontrunners in the domain to look for concrete examples of signals that might lead to trends.
These experts then evaluate the signals regarding frequency of appearance, perceived strength and inertia, polarities for impact, and time-to-impact.
A Horizon Scanning Document is one of the absolute cornerstones in a Futures Thinking process. Such a document contains signals, anomalies, trends, and reflections related to a specific domain, for example, the Future of Food, the Future of Play, the Future of Urban Living … or (as for this document) the Futures of Work.
This kind of document is curated by experts in the field, who constantly spend time scanning the media, publications, academia, and the frontrunners in the domain to look for concrete examples of signals that might lead to trends.
These experts then evaluate the signals regarding frequency of appearance, perceived strength and inertia, polarities for impact, and time-to-impact.