About the Essentials Collection
The ASAE ForesightWorks Essentials Collection, powered by the ASAE Research Foundation, provides association leaders with tools for leveraging strategic intelligence from environmental scanning. These tools support informed decision-making and strategic planning, helping leaders prepare for future changes with their boards and staff. The collection aids in strategic planning, innovation, new business development, anticipatory learning, and risk analysis.
The ASAE ForesightWorks Essentials Collection Includes
ASAE ForesightWorks User’s Guide
Designing Your Association’s Journey into Foresight offers guidance and resources for starting your foresight journey, prioritizing drivers of change, and templates to spark meaningful conversations. *Also available for individual purchase as a digital book.
Drivers of Change
Detailed in four-page action briefs, designed for flexible use. Each brief offers a quick introduction with key forecasts and uncertainties, highlights key trends and supporting data, provides broad insights, timing, and potential futures, and suggests actions for association leaders.
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Summaries of Drivers of Change
Identified by ASAE ForesightWorks highlight various issues affecting associations and their communities, with relevance across multiple industries and society. The summaries are presented in alpha order and by thematic area.
Quick Start Guide
To help you easily navigate and begin using the tools and resources available for foresight practice.
Enduring Drivers of Change
Enduring Drivers of Change, accompanied by the Enduring Drivers of Change Summaries, are detailed four-page action briefs removed from the main list due to outdated data but remain relevant for addressing current issues in association management.
Organizational License
An organizational license to share the action briefs with staff and volunteers within the purchaser’s single legal entity.
Special Feature
Purchasers of the ASAE ForesightWorks Essentials Collection will receive free updates to the existing drivers of change, the summaries document, and the Enduring Drivers of Change summaries document.