ISBN : 9782897990596
Year of publication : 2019
Nombre de pages : 258
Langue : Anglais#French</trp-gettext#!trpEnglish#
Foresight is not forecasting; foresight is not the science of the future. Foresight is a path that we walk, together, with eyes wide open to "see far, see wide, see differently". In this interview, Jean-Marie Bézard takes us along this path - one he knows well - inviting us to deconstruct the obvious, open our horizons wide and multiply our points of view in order to begin the work of creating the "future". In the course of the book and the conversation, the contours of the foresight approach and its origins are outlined. We also explore the challenges that lie ahead in its application, and in the practice of the foresight profession.
Jean-Marie Bézard, joined by Éliane Le Jeune-Bézard, take a lucid and uncompromising look at this profession, one that reflects the responsibility of being oneself, doubt and risk-taking, as well as passion and joy. Finally, we discover some of the tools of the shared foresight approach practiced over the years by Jean-Marie Bézard and the Plénitudes® - Prospective et Management team.
The world is not written, there is no fatality. Fatality becomes fatality when we submit to it. Following in the footsteps of Gaston Berger, the founder of this approach, we are here called upon to discover a shared (collective), committed, even civic foresight, which summons creativity as "doing" - creativity at work - and calls for dialogue with innovation. A fundamentally humanist approach to foresight, when acting together is one of the last possibilities for developing, if there is still time, more inclusive, more benevolent societies.
management professor
Management teacher - social economy
Jean-Marie Bézard holds a doctorate in social psychology (educational sciences), is a consultant and specialist in foresight and innovation, and has developed his activities in France and internationally, both in the field of corporate strategy and change management, and in that of social policies and actions to develop the capacities of individuals and territories. To this end, he has set up and implemented numerous shared foresight and collaborative innovation projects in public and private organizations. He works as a foresight expert in the fields of transmission (family, education), conflict regulation and the construction of the common good. He works with the Université Catholique de Lille (UCL) on the future of the university. He is the author of several studies, articles and books. Anne-Laure Saives and Annie Camus have dedicated a book to him: La créativité à l'oeuvre en prospective : entretien avec Jean-Marie Bézard, conseiller de synthèse (Éditions JFD, 2019). With Jean-François Garneau and Rajendra Coomar Reedha, he co-directed the collective Qu'est-ce que bien gouverner aujourd'hui? (Éditions JFD, 2021). He is a member of the scientific committee of the Observatoire de la parentalité dans l'océan Indien, which he co-founded. He is the initiator, co-founder and co-director of the scientific committee of the Réseau international d'innovation et de prospective.
