Come Back from the Future To apply the come-back-from-the-future approach, ask yourself what the best possible future could be and then work out the milestones you have to reach to get there. Start with a clear endpoint—what you want to achieve—and then work backward from there to try to unpack everything that will make your goal possible and every

And lightness is a must: tools shouldn’t drive the process but enable it. In reality, the speed with which businesses and organizations are forced to confront future questions requires an agility more akin to rapid software development or minimum viable product design.