Stewarding Meaningful Innovation
A foresight project delivered for the Royal Academy of Engineering by Careful Industries.
Engineering and stewardship for a sustainable, inclusive economy
This foresight report for the Royal Academy of Engineering examines the role of engineering in solving complex, “superwicked” problems.
Based on desk research and workshops with expert practitioners, we have mapped what it might take for the Academy to become stewards of meaningful innovation. Progressive future strategic development and cultural change are often what large organisations aspire to, and from our analysis, we proposed that a stewardship model is a key way to ensure such positive and fair future progress.
Read more about our approach in this blog post. The full report is available as a PDF or in Google Slides (embedded below).
This document provides provocations intended as inputs for future strategic development and culture change.
It does not provide a set of tactical recommendations, but strategic advice for approaching the future.
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We are multidisciplinary practitioners in policy and strategy who help weave caring and thoughtful future ideas and recommendations. We practise a unique foresight methodology called relational foresight that involves more voices and builds fairer ideas for the future. We believe foresight can be used to plan for and develop better long term futures in a caring and inclusive way. We work with clients to tackle future facing problems, both at a project level and at an organisational level, using both bespoke foresight methods and workshops as well as through advisory outputs. If you’d like to be involved, we’d love to talk to you.
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