Free Market Fusion - Table of Contents

Table of Contents

xiii.......FOREWORD, by Gary Hart
xvi.......ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
xvii......INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - FREE MARKET FUSION (free to view/print)
1..........A new entrepreneurial approach
3..........How Free Market Fusion Works
5..........Institutions and Philanthropy
8..........Risk Taking: A Key Role
10........Modeling Free Market Fusion
10........Stage 1 - Mission Research and Selection
13........Stage 2 - Planning and Agreements
15........Stage 3 - Key Actions
16........Stage 4 - Outcome Assessment
18........New Areas for Free Market Fusion
23........The Larger Arena: Tapping Entrepreneurial Talent

CHAPTER 2 - CONVERGENCE
25........Accelerating change and the need for
Free Market Fusion
26........Technology and Societal Change
27........The Ubiquitous PC
29........Cyborgs Have Arrived
31........The Acceleration Factor
32........Communication Speed
33........Setting Time Zones
34........Future Shock in Perspective
35........TV as Transforming Technology
36........From Mass Media to Individual Voice
38........The Cable Generation
40........The Internet as a Transforming Force

AN INTERVIEW WITH ALVIN AND HEIDI TOFFLER
43........Three Decades of Future Shock

CHAPTER 3 - WHAT CHANGE MEANS
53........How change dominates business
54........Powershift and World Leadership
56........Change Resistors
59........Ma Bell's Missed Opportunity
60........Mavericks of Change
62........Apple Computer: The Mouse that Roared
63........Cable's Great Leap Forward
66........Dissolving Boundaries and New Ideas

AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD SAUL WURMAN
71........Creator Of Access Books And TED
(Technology Entertainment and Design Conference)

CHAPTER 4 - COPING WITH CHANGE
75........How government and education react
76........Government as Impediment
79........Global Aspects of Change
81........The Sum of Our Choices
82........Defining the Education Race

AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID OSBORNE
86........Co-author, Reinventing Government

CHAPTER 5 - ENTREPRENEURS AS INVENTORS
90........How innovation drives Free Market Fusion
93........20th Century Contributions
95........Track Record for the '80s and '90s
96........Defining and Using Strengths
100......Rediscovering Our Strengths

AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES FALLOWS
105......Author of More Like Us and Looking at the Sun

CHAPTER 6 - FREE MARKET FUSION TOOLS:
109......SCANNING
116......The Best Filter is You
118......Information Overload is a Myth
119......Books
120......Periodicals
121......On-line and Internet Offerings
123......Electronic Newspapers and Magazines
124......Other Electronic Trend Indicators on the Internet
125......Scan for "The Hunch"

AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW P. GARVIN
127......President, FIND/SVP and author of The Art
of Being Well Informed

CHAPTER 7 - FREE MARKET FUSION TOOLS:
131......SCENARIO BUILDING
132......A Game Strategy
134......Scenarios are No Substitute for Other Planning
134......Rumors of Wars and the Origins of Scenario Building
135......The Cold War and Futurists
137......The Rand Corporation
139......Scenarios and Global Growth
141......Royal Dutch Shell: A Scenario for Success
143......A Scenario for Federal Express
143......Picking the Right Kind of Scenario Planning
144......From the Horses' Mouths: Views of Scenario Gurus
147......The 7 Steps of Scenario Planning

AN INTERVIEW WITH THEODORE MODIS
157......Physicist and author of Predictions and
Conquering Uncertainty

CHAPTER 8 - THE RULES OF THE FREE MARKET
164......FUSION GAME

CHAPTER 9 - THE FREE MARKET
169......FUSION INDEX

173......APPENDICES
173......Appendix A - A Scenario Case Study
179......Appendix B - Education and Community
183......Scenario 1 - Orthodoxy
186......Scenario 2 - Orthodoxies
188......Scenario 3 - Wired for Learning
192......Scenario 4 - The Learning Society

200......END NOTES

205......CASE STUDY 1 - KNOWLEDGE TV AND
JONES KNOWLEDGE GROUP

213......CASE STUDY 2 - GLOBAL ELECTRONIC
LIBRARIES

219......CASE STUDY 3 - INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES (IDE)

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
2..........Figure 1 - Free Market Fusion Process
11........Figure 2 - Free Market Fusion: The Process and
the Result (fold-out)
20........Figure 3 - Traditional Election Process
21........Figure 4 - Interactive Election Process
111......Figure 5 - Scanning Process
151......Figure 6 - Scenario Development Matrix
162......Table A - Selection of Scenario and Forecasting
Development Models