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AQA - London, UK |
AQA, the largest curriculum organisation in the UK, preparing and marking exams and courses for 1.5 million students each year. turned to Future Search in an attempt to break through to a new conversation and a different approach. AQA, an independent charity and non-profit business is the UK’s largest exams organisation – creating millions of exams and syllabi most commonly sat by 16 and 18 year olds: GCSE’s and A-levels.
The biggest surprise to the organisers of the Future Search was how open and honest all the participants could be, once they understood that they all shared the same system, and were all working towards a common goal. They discovered what that goal was together and aligned their ambitions, their knowledge, their aspirations and their values to support it.
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| Fishing Industry Summit for Health (FISH) Future Search: To create a shared vision, commitment, and action plan to improve the commercial fishing communities total health. October, 2015. |
| New England Fishermen are facing challenges to their physical, psychological, behavioral and financial health. As one of the frontline agencies, the Fishing Partnership Support Services convened a Future Search to create a strategic plan that included stakeholder groups with an interest in the well-being of fishermen and their families. Although participants had a shared interest, many had never met before they gathered to discover how to work collaboratively.
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| Future
search introduces a leading Canadian global asset management company to
the value of broad stakeholder participation for strategic planning. |
In May, 2003 in Montreal, Quebec Canada, a leading Canadian global
asset management company used future search as part of a Strategic
Planning process. The goal was to develop and reach consensus on a new
vision/future scenario, following a change in ownership. The
process brought together
together senior and middle management, all functional and operational
departments, clients, suppliers, and advisers.
This was an
innovation for this company which was used to more traditional top down
planning and developed. It grew out of a contract to implement a
traditional strategic planning proecss. With the help of the
consultant, the process moved from a "tell.sale" approach to a "testing" approach
and finally to a "co-creating" approach.
Once this shift was made, there was broad support fro the process
throughout the organization and enthusiasm for implementing the
results. Following the FS workshop, all employees participated in
work sessions with senior management and members of the planning team.
A new culture and a new style of leadership are now emerging in the company.
For more information contact: Jean-Pierre Beaulieu (jpbeaulieu@sympatico.ca) or Emile J. Carriere
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| Functional Assessment in Job Injuries in Southern Ontario Province, Canada |
On
September 25-28, 2002, a future search was held, to
look at how functional assessment of injured workers is done in
Southern Ontario Province in Canada. The stakeholders included
injured workers, health care representatives, assessment providers,
labour groups, employers and the Workplace Safety Insurance Board.
The theme of the conference was "Functional Assessment: A Time
for Consensus, A Time for Change."
Additional
Resources:
Conference Newsletter.pdf
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| Telecommunication Company, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2001. |
| Internal
and external partners of a telecommunication company, with product
penetration in 85 countries and speaking 14 different languages, got
together to create a new vision. As a result, their shared decisions
are transforming this organization from product driven to market
driven, from costs to quality, from hierarchy centered to decentralized
decision making. A participating client made a commitment to a real
business partnership by saying, "we will share our market intelligence
with you." |
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| Chemical manufacturing plant, Massachusetts, USA, 2001. |
| Struggling
with profitability, environmental impact and workplace safety, this
company used future search to help make the plant the best, easiest,
safest workplace it could be. The future search kicked-off a year of
follow-up activity and produced productivity gains of 30-62% per
product, a 75% improvement in customer quality, a 42% reduction in
inventory, and major safety and environmental improvements throughout
the plant. |
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| Industrial Sector of German Hairdressers, sponsored by L'Oreal, Germany, 2001. |
Whole
business line of the hairdressing sector--hairdressers (owners),
employees, industry, trade, shop-designers (furniture, fittings,
equipment), unions, guilds, training, education, private schools,
customers, politicians (Lobbyists), trade press--created a future for
the sector through building constructive relationships.
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| Multi-national Specialty Chemicals, Washington DC, USA, 2001. |
| Having
split into two companies and reorganized to meet changing market
conditions, this company used future search to help the newly formed,
world-wide human resource function develop a new vision for their role.
Human resources plus their customers, a cross section of employees and
managers from various divisions around the world, set a common agenda
for the future. |
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| American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), 2001. |
Members
from across United States, Caribbean, Europe and Asia met in Orlando,
Florida on the future of workplace learning and performance.Conference
outcomes include a book on the future of the HRD profession (to be
published 2002) and an on-line knowledge management system. The theme
of the conference was: "Collaboration in a Virtual Team
Environment:A Case Study in Planning the ASTD/AHRD 2001 Future Search
Conference " A report and a file with conference outcomes is available. Please contact Robert Dilworth, for more information on obtaining a copy of the video.
Additional
Resources:
 Visit website
ASTD.zip
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| Law Firm, Cherry Hill, NJ, USA, 2000 |
| Experiencing
considerable growth, the key issue for this law firm was the tension
between expanding and maintaining a strong collegial culture. One
outcome of the future search was unanimity on a specific approach to
growth for central and branch offices. This was significant
accomplishment because the partners were unable to agree on a coherent
strategy prior to the future search. Future search principles have been
used in successive planning meetings. |
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| Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association. Chicago, IL, USA 2000. |
| This
is the group within the ABA that focuses on how law firms manage their
practices. They created a future for the management section and their
stakeholders that included fresh ideas on how to stay relevant and
close to their client base. |
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| High-Tech Medical Equipment Manufacturer, New York, USA, 2000. |
| Using
future search to address major quality, safety and productivity
problems, everyone in the plant, including engineers, permanent and
contract workers and corporate executives achieved a common vision of
how the workplace should operate. Over the next year, follow-up
activities led to dramatic improvements in quality and workplace
safety, along with redesigned production lines and warehouse areas. |
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| Penn Ventilator Corp., Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1996 |
The
future of Non-Residential Ventilation Systems sponsored by Penn
Ventilator. PVC brought together customers, suppliers, consultant
engineers & systems designers and a cross section of the
organization. Major outcome was decentralizing to create flexibility in
the organization and responsiveness to customers.
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