The Scanning Process

Ways of seeing

Brainstorming: Brainstorming gives us a way to see the future from the present by taking different vantage points as follows: 

• Look ahead: looking to what's coming next 
• Look behind: understanding the past 
• Look above: taking a helicopter view 
• Look below: finding the diamond in the rough 
• Look beside: removing the blinkers 
• Look beyond: questioning what's beyond the horizon 
• Look through: actioning the thinking above 

Figure 28. Ways of seeing - Brainstorm. Courtesy of Shaping Tomorrow