Futures Wheels

Utilising Futures Wheels to explore implications

We can use the Futures Wheel to map cascading implications that may emerge from the possible future scenarios we develop. Here I've utilised the Futures Wheel to explore a broad range of impacts for consideration within the transformation scenario. This format invites us to consider implications across each of the major PESTLE+ areas and ensure a wide ranging analysis for future strategy development.

These Future Wheels are based on emergent ideas developed in the Transformation scenario - The Relationship of Things (RoT).

Key changes surfaced in this transformation scenario

4 x Futures Wheels

Below you can see 4 Futures Wheels which explore the potential cascading implications of 4 potential shifts which emerged from the Transformation scenario - The Relationship of Things (RoT). They include:

• Technology companies have privatised schools for profit.

• Educators have bifurcated into domain masters and learning coaches.

• Curriculum has been replaced with problem-based meta maps.

• Learners’ work is minted as ‘scholar NFTs’ on-chain.

The 4 emergent changes described above; whilst taken from the transformation scenario and thus firmly positioned in the future, are not entirely unrealistic as the seeds of these emerging changes are in fact, already visible today. The Futures Wheels enable us to explore the cascading implications and identify the challenges and opportunities these shifts present, and how they interrelate within the education system, so that we might take the next steps in determining how best to move toward possible preferred futures.

You can see the next step as we integrate these cascading implications into an Implication Map with Options for moving forward.