California Association of Museums

The California Association of Museums (CAM) "Leaders of the Future" project will provide 40 museum leaders with training in the techniques of using strategic foresight for long-term planning. Strategic foresight allows museum professionals to think beyond day-to-day operations and use creativity and imagination to plan for the future. Strategic foresight is based on the collection of data and making assumptions to create plausible future scenarios. Scenarios imagine futures based on the intersection of new and existing trends as well as potentially disruptive events. Two strategic foresight training workshops and an online futures forum will foster ongoing dialogue about forecasting scenarios and scanning for future trends. Workshop participants will also serve on the CAM Foresight Committee and will share information online and lead discussions at the 2013 CAM conference on trends that will impact the museum field in California.