FCA is an alliance of Future Centers and master practitioners in the art and practice of creating, running and supporting Future Centers. The goal of the Alliance is to promote the effective use of Future Center concepts in diverse domains. Members work together to exchange ideas about effective practice and co-create new knowledge, methodologies and tools to support systemic change in organizations and society. The intention is to initiate and collaborate on joint international projects relevant to key stakeholders in the public and private sector.
Building on the work of an earlier alliance, the FCA was renewed and reestablished in 2011 by a diverse group of practitioners from 8 countries. It is the leading international alliance for initiating, organizing and actively supporting the management and renewal of Future Centers and similar dedicated innovation environments.
Alliance partners leverage their core expertise, complementary skills, and extensive networks to collaboratively achieve client objectives. They advise on and support public sector renewal and private sector innovation in a dozen countries, and have actively participated in the development of Future Centers throughout the world.
FCA members are:
- Working Future Centers and other innovation and foresight-enhancing workspaces;
- Public and private organizations committed to the practice of innovation, and seriously interested in applying Future Center concepts to co-create value for their customers, stakeholders, sectors and society as a whole;
- Experienced professionals working in the field of business and societal innovation, intellectual capital, collaborative workspace design, problem solving and academic/action research, who have demonstrated an affinity with Future center concepts.
For more information, please contact
• contact@fc-alliance.net
Website: www.fc-alliance.net
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The 4th international Future Center Summit was held in Tokyo from November 24th to 26th 2010. It was organized by KDI - the Knowledge Dynamics Initiative of Fuji- Xerox - in collaboration with the Future Center Alliance (FCA).
More than 70 people from 10 different countries attended the event.
The Japan Summit brought a broad cross-section of practitioners together to explore mutually interesting concepts and create a basis for learning and collaboration in the future. There were ample opportunities to work with people who are actively putting Future Center concepts into practice, as well as with people who are in the process of creating new concept and methodologies for Future Centers, innovation workspaces and labs for organizational and societal innovation.
The program included plenary and interactive small-group activities to explore a number of themes, with a special focus on:
· What Japanese concepts such as “ba” can mean for future-directed dialogue, solving cross-organizational problems and creating effective spaces for organizational and societal innovation.
· How to improve and upgrade present centers to address the challenges of the future.
· Visits to Japanese Future Centers and culturally important locations in the Tokyo area, as well as discussions revealing innovation and future-oriented practice at leading Japanese companies.
· Intercultural similarities and differences in working with innovation, future centers, and collaborative work processes.
There is a growing Future Center community in Japan, engaged in translating future center concepts into a new generation of centers that are both unique to Japan and relevant to today’s international world. People from this community worked closely with KDI to prepare and facilitate different activities during the Summit, offering exploiting their expertise and resources to offer memorable and engaging experiences.
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ACSI – the Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation – is a new generation innovation initiative of Finland’s Aalto University and The New Club of Paris. ACSI integrates academic and societal expertise with hands-on innovation practice in the creation of real-life systemic change.
ACSI is a dedicated process of research, learning and rapid implementation, based on a set of core principles, processes and methods for creating societal impact, now and in the future. It provides a continuing process for furthering social and societal change. The process integrates virtual and physical work on real-life issues, the search for effective ways to think about and reframe complex problems, and research on emerging insights on how societal innovation actually works. It connects networks of researchers, user communities and international societal innovators in a community geared to create solutions meeting the real needs of business, citizens and society. In this way it leverages local knowledge and cutting-edge expertise from all over to world to further systemic change.
The 8-day camp in Finland is central to the working process. The first ACSI camp was prototyped in the summer of 2010.
ACSI 2011 will be held in Finland August 24th to 31st.Virtual work with cases starts in April 2011 and continues after the camp.
http://acsi.aalto.fi/acsi+homepage/
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