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Strategic Foresight

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Strategic foresight is the organizational practice of systematically exploring future possibilities to inform present decisions. Unlike traditional strategic planning, which extrapolates from present trends, foresight recognizes that the future is not an extension of the past but a landscape of branching possibilities shaped by emergent technologies, social shifts, and institutional disruptions. The practice combines quantitative forecasting with qualitative scenario construction to build what resilience theorists call adaptive

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