Elina Hiltunen has been commenting about how the world could look like in 2020 in IET magazine. Read the the story here.

Elina Hiltunen is having her speech about weak signals and anticipating the future from the business intelligence point of view in the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2010, February, London. See here the brochure of the summit.

Elina kirjoittaa nykyään Talouselämässä kolumneja (varoitus: välillä pilke silmäkulmassa!!). Seuraavista linkeista pääsee suoraan kolumneihin.

Kolumni Lidlin kolamainoksesta

Kolumni ennakoinnista

Kolumni sosiaalisesta mediasta

Kolumni työssä jaksamisesta

Some days ago, in a seminar of Endero and their innovation management officer program I volunteered when five people were asked to step in fron t of everybody. Jim Solatie, and innovation couch totally surprised the five of the volunteers, by handing us a note of 100 euros (see the pic). The task for us was to use this note to something that encourages innovation. I spend very much time  to think about where to spend this note, and finally came to a conclusion: I spend this note to enhhance the creativity of children.

Lately, I had a discussion with my daughter’s teacher and I asked her if it was possible to make the kids to draw and write about the future (for example 2020), and with that material to make a small book about their visions about the future. Every student would get a a book for themselves. The teacher said yes to me, and promised to start the project next January. Of course this is just the first discussions and you can never know what happens with this project, but I really like the idea that the kids could watch their creation after ten years and look ath their thoughts about the future at that time.

Printing is expensive, but luckily Nord Print volunteered to sponsor the printing, so we will get every child a book of his/her own.

I will keep posting about this issue in this blog, and how it turns out.

If you are interested in futures a good place to visit is European Futurist conference, which is arranged yearly in Lucern. The topic of the next conference is:  Visioning 20.20- Escaping the Age of Stupid.

These issues are on the focus of the conference:

Understanding the Transformation

• How far does the transformation reach beyond this worst crisis since the Great Depression?
• What does the new architecture of a robust global financial system look like?
• How do society’s values change?
• How will customers make decisions in the future?
• What is the future relationship between state and economy?
• How does the transformation affect the sustainable development?
• Which new technologies are driving tomorrow’s growth?

Conquering New Opportunities

• What do the megatrends mean for small and medium-sized businesses?
• Are the companies equipped for the future?
• Where do corporate futurists see future opportunities?
• How do companies combine insights about the future with their strategies?

programmecan be found here.

What’s Next Consulting Oy jatkaa taas toimintaansa, koska Elina Hiltunen on päättänyt siirtyä Nokian futuristin paikalta takaisin konsultiksi. Mieli on täynnä uusia ideoita arvokkaan Nokiakokemuksen jälkeen.

-If change never happened, there would not be butterflies-

If you are interested in reading more about weak signals, please check my new (old ) blog:

http://www.future.vuodatus.net

I have continued writing about future and weak signals there.

I just got myself a new mobile phone E71 and of course I have to try it for blogging. I really like this qwerty keyboard and surfing with this phone is ok too (previously I have not surffed with cellphone).
Currently I am sitting in the car (not driving) we are coming from small Finnish town back to home. We visited local McDonalds and found a computer game there where children have to pedal real bikes to get the charachters in the screen to move. A weak signal!

My son has a “toy day”every week at the day care. That day the kids are allowed to take toys from home to the daycare. Last week my 4 year old son wanted to take his toy gun to the daycare- and he did so. In the afternoon when coming to get my children back to home, one nanny in the daycare stopped me “There is a rule in this daycare. No toy guns allowed!”

…So no toy guns next time, I agreed with my son…