Critical strategic foresight

There are occasions when individuals working for a business see beyond the intended consequences of strategies, and foresee potentially detrimental unintended consequences. Described as critical strategic foresight, it is likely to come from individuals with some challenging questions about how to deal with the future and, hence, cannot be gathered via permanent facilities such as suggestion schemes and knowledge management systems. Without these facilities, an individual´s inconvenient and challenging question about the future can easily be attributed to resistance to change. Accordingly, an individual´s critical strategic foresight can be regarded as a negative view to be eradicated rather than an original view to be evaluated. Businesses are therefore urged to make use of creative thinking methods to better anticipate potentially detrimental unintended consequences.