title: Spinning the future.
abstract: You may not be able to predict the future, but you can create scenarios to help you think about the future proactively. Instead of attempting to tell the future, tell stories about it. Here are eight steps to help you zero in on the future--they are designed to take you through the process of spinning scenarios in order to make decision-making, long-term planning, and thinking about the future more fruitful. Spinning scenarios is a highly sophisticated, singularly useful, and imminently practical way to think about the future. Yet, it is simple enough that you can do it yourself.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Flower
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D007255:Information Services; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States