Acknowledgements
We recognize here the many amazing futurists, strategists, and change agents (the titans) work in creating the methods that are embedded in our compendium system. Plus, many associates and friends who freely gave their time, knowledge and resources to bring the system together. Thank you all.
THE TITANS
- Causality: Bradford Hill (1965) and Donald Davidson (1981)
- Dispersion: William Gibson (2003)
- Lifecycle: Andrew H. van de Ven and Marshall Scott Poole (1995)
- PESTLEC: Michel Foucault (1969) and Karen Barak (2022)
- SWOT: Albert Humphries (1960's)
- Worldview: Ralph D. Stacey (1990)
- Needs: Marshall Rosenberg (1968) Stephen Reiss (1990's)
- S-Curve: Graham Molitor (1977)
- Manoa Scenarios: James Dator (About 1971)
- Casual Layered Scenarios: Sohail Inayatullah (1998)
- 3 Horizons: Merhdad Baghai, Stephen Coley, David White (1999)
- Futures Cone: Charles Taylor (1990)
- Futures Wheel: Jerome Glenn (1972)
- Surprise: John Peterson (1997)
- ThreatCast renamed as FutureCast: Brian David Johnson (2011)
- Diplomacy: James E. Grunig (1970s)
- Power Interest Grid: Colin Eden and Fran Ackerman (1998)
- MACTOR method: Michel Godet (1991)
- RACI Matrix: Edmond F. Sheehan (1950s)
- Policy: Joseph P. Overton Window (2010)
- Dialog: Thomas Chermak (2006)
- Dysfunction and Cohesion: Patrick Lencioni (2002)
- Voices: Bill Bannear (2023)
- Big Data: John R. Mashey (1990s)
- Thick Data: Tricia Wang (2016)
- Warm Data: Nora Bateson (2012)
- Theory U: Otto Scharmer (2006)
- Speed of Trust Index: FranklinCovey (2017)
- Ethnography: Bronislaw Malinowski (1910s)
- Psychology: Joana Macy (1970s)
- Semiotics: Geert Hofstade (1991)
- Languages: Katarina Zimmer (2023?)
- Generations: William Strauss & Neil Howe (1991)
- Verge: Richard Lum and Michelle Bowman - designers (2004)
- Values: Brent Mills & Alex Wilner (2022)
- Spatiality: Roger Brunet (2011)
- STEM: U.S. National Science Foundation (2001)
- Technology Readiness: NASA (1974)
- Communication: Bruce Westley and Malcolm S. Mclean (1957), and David Berlo (1960)
- Impact: David Wright (2011)
- MLP: Frank W. Geels (2011)
- TRIZ: Genrich S. Altshuller (1946 - 1985)
- SODAS: Jan Rosa (1973)
- Morphological box: Fritz Zwicky (1966)
- Cross-Consistency Assessment: Tom Richey (2002)
- Kepner-Tregoe: Charles Kepner and Benjamin Tregoe (1950's)
- Lean Thinking: James Womack and Daniel Jones (1996)
- Sustainability: John Elkington (early 90s)
- Biomimicry: Janine Benyus (1997)
- Regeneration: Cassie Robinson (2020)
- Why?: Sakichi Tayoda (1930's)
- Fishbone: Kaoru Ishikawa (1960's)
- VUCA: Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus (1987)
- Uncertainty: David J. Snowden (1999)
- Constructal Law: Adrian Bejan (1995)
- Estuarine Mapping: David J. Snowden (2023)
- Collapse: Joseph Tainter (1988)
- (Un)knowns: Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham (1955)
- MicMac: Michel Godet (1971)
- Design: British Design Council (Various)
- Design: The Design Council (2005)
- CATWOE: David Smyth – (1975)
- Deviance: Ryan Matthews and Watts Wacker (2004)
- Feedforward: Jason Frasca and Iain Kerr (2023)
- Breakout (Pace Layers): Stewart Brand (1999)
- Spiral (Dynamics): Clare Graves (1952)
- Whitespace (Ansoff Matrix): Igor Ansoff (1957)
- Brainstorming: Alex F. Osborn (1953)
- Mitigation (Premortem): Gary Klein (2007)
- Acupuncture: Richard Hames (2010)
- Speculative: Carnegie-Mellon (1997-)
- Fictioning: Noel Fitzpatrick (2016)
- Scorecard: Robert Kaplan and David Norton (early 1990's)
- Benchmarking: Robert C. Camp (1980s)
- Six Sigma: Bill Smith (1986)
- Growth (Kondratiev Curves): Nikolai Kondratiev (1925)
- Blue Ocean Strategy: Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (2005)
- Trend Impact Analysis: Theodore Gordon (late 1970s)
- Risk/Reward: Ralph Nelson Elliott (1930s)
- MDCA: Stanley Zoints (1979)
- Questions: Shell's Seven Questions - Shell Oil Company (UK)
- Recognition Primed Decision model: Gary Klein (1993)
- Vroom-Yetton Model: Victor Vroom and Philip Yetton (1973)
- De Bono (Six Thinking Hats): Edward de Bono (1985)
Dates are not necessarily the first instance of these methods but the dates of the publications we visited.
ASSOCIATES who contributed to this system
- Michael Wright: USA
- Peter Black: Australia
- Jim Burke: USA
- Maree Conway: Australia
- Michael McAllum: Australia
- Richard Hames: Thailand
- Patricia Lustig: UK
- Marcus Anthony: China
- Josh Polchar: OECD
- Dave Baldwin: USA
- Dennis Draeger: New Zealand
- Shermon Cruz: Philippines
- David Staley: USA
- Professor Bruce Lloyd: UK
And my original mentors
- Joseph M. Coates – USA
- Dr Wendy Schultz – UK
And --
Josh Colchester at the Si-Network for allowing us to use their systems thinking icons
And, our now many partners and associates for their ideas.
Thank you too all!
Mike Jackson
President, PreEmpt
Do contact us to suggest more method additions or corrections. Your views are always welcome.