Sohail Inayatullah

ThinkersBorn 1958Futures researcher

Works

  • Causal Layered Analysis: Poststructuralism as Method, Futures, 1998
  • Six Pillars: Futures Thinking for Transforming, Foresight, 2008

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He devised causal layered analysis, which reads an issue at four layers: the litany of headline facts, the social and structural causes, the worldview that frames them, and the underlying myth or metaphor. His Six Pillars article sets out a futures method built around six concepts and includes his futures triangle.

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