Peter Hayward

• Swinburne University of Technology

The Master of Strategic Foresight (MSF) was first taught at Swinburne University in 2001. Richard Slaughter was the designer and educator of that original program. This paper will attempt to provide an overview of the program in the intervening sixteen years.

This paper reports on a collaborative research process to explore the future role of business schools in the development of globally responsible leaders. Swinburne University of Technology held a collaboratory workshop of academics across disciplines and a range of business leaders to explore firstly what a globally responsible leader would look li...

This paper focuses on the innovation management (or lack of it perhaps) of Higher Education as a sector, highlighting examples of practice from industry and private providers that suggest the university needs to start engaging in this agenda if it is to remain a sustainable entity beyond 2025. The paper presents five scenarios for the future of Hig...

This paper revisits the original design parameters of what was a ‘new’ Masters in Strategic Foresight that commenced at Swinburne University in 2001. It explores which of the original purposes and assumptions have stood the test of time over the course of a decade and analyses how the course has evolved, partly through design and partly through nec...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on how foresight methods are being used to address a “wicked problem” for the global furniture industry: “What are we going to do in the furniture industry in high cost countries (HCC) to maintain our future competitiveness with respect to the competition coming from low cost countries?” Design/method...

The research, teaching and practice carried out by the Strategic Foresight Program at Swinburne University has as a foundational aim the creation of social foresight. This is an approach to community development based on fostering an emergent, socially distributed capacity for systematic, long term thinking oriented towards the maintenance and enha...

An integral approach to futures inquiry has been described as the next distinct tradition. That form of inquiry is predicated upon the use of an integral perspective. This paper explores the nature of such a perspective and also relates recent research that sheds light upon that perspective's development. It also suggests methodological pathways th...

This paper argues that research in entrepreneurship is a fraught process. Firstly, concepts of validity are paradigmatically framed. Secondly, the paradigms of research within entrepreneurship are still being argued and are the subject of much debate. Finally, the 'quality' of research is being determined by those at the leading edge of their own p...

This paper discusses how the social change theory of P.R. Sarkar is introduced to students of the Australian Foresight Institute's Masters in Strategic Foresight program through an action learning process. Through action learning, the student can come to appreciate the qualitative difference in understanding that can be obtained through taking an '...

This paper introduces the Viable Systems Model and in particular the Meta System component of that model, as a framework within which to consider how foresight can be facilitated in organisations. Shows how the System 4 function within the meta system is in a position to facilitate processes that will produce effectiveness and the development of ov...

Why is foresight research often unable to create foresight actions? This paper explores whether an individual's psychological development could be a factor. It employs the work of Jane Loevinger as a basis for exploring this hypothesis. It also examines the findings of the Global Lookout Panel which identified the factors needed for successful impl...

Slaughter's layered social foresight development model has played a central role in the Swinburne University Strategic Foresight Program's teaching and research since inception. The model formed the theoretical basis for a recent project to build foresight capacity with the Victorian community services sector. Following completion of the project, r...

This piece discusses how the social change theory of P.R. Sarkar is introduced to students of the Masters in Strategic Foresight program at Swinburne University through an experiential learning approach; the 'Sarkar Game'. After observing how participants learn from the experience of acting out Sarkar's social cycle it is suggested that this approa...

This session will demonstrate a 'new' futures methodology through experiential learning for all attendees and participants. This methodology was developed through the teaching program at the Australian Foresight Institute. Based upon the theory of P.R. Sarkar and the writing of Sohail Inayatullah, the Sarkar Game allows the existing cultural script...

The Sarkar Game was created in 2003 in the Master of Strategic Foresight program at Swinburne University as an entertaining and illustrative way of teaching a macrohistorical model of social change in the classroom. After successive iterations and learning, the game is now included in the curriculum of three postgraduate programs, creating experien...

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