Andy Hines
Biographical Sketch 
Andy Hines is teaching futures studies at the University of Houston, alongside a "day job" of managing custom research and consulting projects at Social Technologies, a leading consulting futures firm that specializes in the integration of foresight, strategy of innovation.
Prior to joining the University of Houston and Social Technologies, he enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and then organizational futurist. He became a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, he established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company
Each career has been characterized by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful. Andy believes that foresight can help deliver the insight so much in need in today's organizations and the world, and hopes he can infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.
In this pursuit, he co-founded and is currently Vice-Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists, co-authored three books --Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight, 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997) and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994). He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards' Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for "An Audit for Organizational Futurists." He likes to do these things, so please ask!
A few of his favorite articles that he'd like to share are:
- Good News on the Values Front! A review of Ron Inglehart & Christian Welzel's Modernization, Culture Change & Democracy.
- The 2004 Foresight Literati Award Winner for Paper of the Year: An Organizational Futurists Audit: Ten Questions Every Organizational Futurists Should be Able to Answer
- "The Futures of Futures: A Scenario Salon" describes the results from a scenario planning activity by the Association of Professional Futurists on the future of our field
- "Applying Integral Futures to Environmental Scanning," Futures Research Quarterly, Winter 2003.
Andy has worked on several dozen projects focusing on trends, developments, and issues affecting the future of organizations. He is also:
- On the Editorial Board of Foresight and Technological Forecasting & Social Change.
- Former "Emerging Technologies" editor for The Futurist magazine.
- Co-founder and former president of the Metropolitan Washington DC Chapter of the World Future Society.
- Co-author Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight, 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997) and Managing Your Future as an Association (American Society of Association Executives, 1994) and has published several dozen articles.
- Andy has appeared on MS-NBC, A & E's Time Machine series, on local television, as a guest author on the WELL, and on several radio programs.
EDUCATION
- M.S. Studies of the Future -- University of Houston -- Clear Lake 1990
- B.A. History/Political Science -- Salem State College, 1987
CONTACT INFORMATION
Andy Hines
Adjunct Faculty
714 E. 9th St
Houston, TX 77007
Phone: 832.367.5575
Fax: 713.743.4033
Andy.hines@socialtechnologies
