Jan 8, 2024 | Envision Success Stories
Mark A. Konlock, Director of Horticulture, Green Bay Botanical Garden
Plants build community – we understand that. For 27 years, the Garden has connected people with
plants through educational and recreational experiences in an environment that engages, inspires, and
refreshes. But how can we plan for the Garden’s best possible future? The Garden’s leadership team has
been working with Envision Greater Green Bay to anticipate internal and external changes over the next
few decades and to craft a plausible future that successfully moves the organization forward. Read
about the Garden’s futuring experience.
Jan 8, 2024 | Upward Mobility Signals
Jim Golembeski, Upward Mobility Signals Team
Someone told me recently that the current state of generative AI today is comparable to what cell
phones were in 2008. Remember pulling up little antennas in days before unlimited texting? What will
AI be doing in 2033? We had better keep up with it, because generative AI accelerates what is known as
the “Digital Divide.” We are fortunate in Northeast Wisconsin to have a head start on this opportunity to
address the Digital Divide. Read more about AI in the workplace.
Jan 8, 2024 | Community Spotlight
David Groteluschen, M.D., Medical Oncologist, guest author
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world we live in, including healthcare. It offers a wide possibility
of change – from patient wellness and provider access to medical diagnostics, clinical operations, and
optimization of disease treatment modalities. At Green Bay Oncology, we have started to incorporate AI
technologies into patient care, experiencing both enhanced provider efficiency and improved patient
treatment outcomes. Learn how AI is changing healthcare.
Dec 1, 2023 | Strategic Foresight
Alexa Naudziunas, Envision Executive Director, Jeff House, Envision Board Member, ChatGPT
As we drive toward a preferred future, our ability to shape an effective response to change proves both necessary and challenging. Strategic foresight has emerged as a valuable tool for all of us. Seeking to help create a resilient and adaptable Greater Green Bay, we turned to the University of Houston’s Foresight Certification Program. The intensive five-week program became our compass for smart decision-making. Read Navigating the Future.
Dec 1, 2023 | Strategic Foresight
What if the signals told you that you’ve been pitching the wrong product – to the wrong audience? Or imagine the signals told you that artificial intelligence (AI), rather than a danger to your primary audience, is actually the key to enhancing the services they need? What if the signals suggest AI will make things worse? Those were some of the gripping scenarios presented at the November 17 Strategic Foresight graduation session. Read about Graduates.
Dec 1, 2023 | Housing and Safety Signals
Fr. Paul Demuth, Board Member
A Choctaw elder tells the story of a lost arrow shot through time which lands in the future. Today, in County Cork, Ireland, stands a monument to the Choctaw people — 20-foot-high steel feathers entitled Kindred Spirits. It is a reminder of an amazing act of generosity back in the 1830s that became the signal of a distant future: today. Read Landing in the Future.
Nov 17, 2023 | Signals to Watch
Green Bay’s Metro Fire Department is considering buying an electric fire truck. Such vehicles are reported to be much quieter than the traditional truck and exude no fumes. The elimination of background noise might improve the scene, making radios and shouts unnecessary. This electric truck could pump water continuously for four hours on a single battery charge. Electric fire trucks cost more than standard trucks, of course, so funding options would have to be explored.
Nov 3, 2023 | Envision Success Stories
John Werner, Sr. VP & Chief Strategy Officer, Schreiber Foods
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” This statement, often attributed to Mark Twain, has been written on the wall in my office for the past four years. Around that time, Schreiber Foods had implemented a new organizational structure to support a recently developed, long-term growth strategy. Along with my teammates, I had the opportunity to take on new challenges and learn new skills to deliver growth for our company and impact to our communities. At that point, I felt like I had a lot of things figured out in life. Little did I know, when I wrote those words on the wall, the volume of change I was about to face: a pandemic, supply chain shortages, inflation, and more. Click Success with Strategic Foresight.
Nov 3, 2023 | Community Spotlight
Jim Golembeski, board member
I met Michelle Schuler in 2014 when we were organizing what is now the NEW North Digital Alliance. Michelle had taken six years off from her business career to raise her children, and she was ready to reenter the workforce.
As she went through the networking process, Michelle discovered two important realities:
1. Everything was going digital, and
2. There were a lot of high level, professional women who did not know each other.
In addition, only 24% of computer related jobs were held by women. Furthermore, women comprised only 5% of the leadership positions in that growing field. Those facts led to the formation of Women in Technology Wisconsin. Click Women for a Digital Future.
Nov 3, 2023 | Envision Success Stories
Resurrection Envisions the Future of Spiritual Growth
Tony Pichler, Mission Outreach Director, Resurrection Parish
On March 1, 2023, the entire leadership team from Resurrection Catholic Parish attended Envision’s World Futures Day at the KI Center in downtown Green Bay. Our minds were stretched as we learned more about artificial intelligence, bots that can create a speech and so much more, and other futuristic changes that were predicted on the Jetsons cartoon show sixty years ago. Yet, as our team listened, engaged, and grew, the same questions came to each and every one of us: Where is the spiritual in these signals of change? What does the future hold for religion, spirituality, and institutions and communities like ours that promote spiritual growth and development? Click Spirituality Futures Day.
