Futures wheel

(Jerome C. Glenn (1994) The Futures Wheel)To start a futures wheel the central term describing the change to evaluate is positioned in the center of the page (or drawing area).

Then, events or consequences following directly from that development are positioned around it.

The terms may be connected as nodes in a tree (or even a web).

The use of interconnecting lines makes it possible to visualize interrelationships of the causes and resulting changes.

Thus, futures wheels can assist in developing multi-concepts about possible future development by offering a futures-conscious perspective and aiding in the group brainstorming.

A futures wheel as described by Jerome C. Glenn: a central event (blue) surrounded by its direct consequences (red), with those being surrounded again by the event's indirect consequences (green)