Matthew Milan & Sam Ladner
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A mashup of scenario development and social learning, backcasting is a strategy framework that allows practitioners to successfully conceptualize, scope and structure multiple future states. It also provides a framework for successfully negotiating obstacles and threats to achieving those states. Originally used in the environmental planning field, backcasting has been hacked and refined for use in web strategy discovery activities.
Other recorded talks from the 2007 IA summit
- Enterprise IA methodologies: starting two steps earlier – James Robertson
- Systems Thinking, Rich Mapping and Conceptual Models – Matt MIllan & Gene Smith
- Project Touchstones how to bridge competing viewpoints and build vision consensus and innovation – Jess McMullin
- Using Search Analytics To Diagnose What’s Ailing Your Information Architecture – Lou Rosenfeld & Rich Wiggins
- Real information Architecture – New Mighty Deeds – Margaret Hanley, Lisa Chan, Tom Coates and Matt Biddulph
- Information Architecture and Ethical Design – Olly Wright
