Organizing for Alternative Futures

Choosing Among Alternative Futures

Non-determinism is a serious impediment to testing and debugging concurrent programs. Such programs do not execute the same way each time they are run, which can hide the presence of errors. Existing techniques use a variety of mechanisms that attempt to increase the probability of uncovering error conditions by altering the execution sequence of a concurrent program, but do not test for specif...

Alternative Futures for Panama's Systematic Development

This paper is based on research which aims to influence governmental policy, corporate and civil society leaders in Panama to explore alternative futures using a futures thinking approach to challenge the current economic development paradigm and move towards a systematic development model (economic, human and sustainable development). Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) and scenarios are the futures...

Organizing for individuation: alternative organizing, politics and new identities

Modeling biocomplexity - actors, landscapes and alternative futures

Increasingly, models (and modelers) are being asked to address the interactions between human influences, ecological processes, and landscape dynamics that impact many diverse aspects of managing complex coupled human and natural systems. These systems may be profoundly influenced by human decisions at multiple spatial and temporal scales, and the limitations of traditional process-level ecosys...

The World of 2020 and Alternative Futures