Connecting Present and Future
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“Almost everybody loves to think about the future, especially people in organizations. We talk about the future, make predictions about the future, sometimes even bet on the future. We seldom get serious about connecting what we do today to what we think will happen tomorrow."
Herman Miller, the pioneering workplace design company, is a noted exception. For a number of years, Herman Miller has been using scenarios to explore the future of work and then to engage its customers in an immersive experience and conversation based on the different futures that the scenarios embody. In this wide-ranging interview, published in SEE magazine and reprinted with permission, Maryln Walton, Herman Miller's future insight manager, and Chris Ertel, former co-head of the GBN consulting practice, discuss their collaboration as well as the history and value of scenario planning.
Herman Miller, the pioneering workplace design company, is a noted exception. For a number of years, Herman Miller has been using scenarios to explore the future of work and then to engage its customers in an immersive experience and conversation based on the different futures that the scenarios embody. In this wide-ranging interview, published in SEE magazine and reprinted with permission, Maryln Walton, Herman Miller's future insight manager, and Chris Ertel, former co-head of the GBN consulting practice, discuss their collaboration as well as the history and value of scenario planning.
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