Some other members may want to believe that it is possible to engage the services of a futurist who will accurately predict the real future, and then tell the organization how to maximize its position in the future. But, all else having failed, someone calls a futurist. It is into this kind of an environment that we often step. Under such circumstances, we have learned that we cannot follow Jungk's future workshops method exactly. Giving the past its positive due, no matter how irrelevant the past may seem to be for the future, is a very important, initial, activity, we have learned.
Nothing is forever.
No institution has existed from the beginning of time. Each organization came into existence at some point in the past to serve some function of that period. Perhaps that function now is passe. Perhaps your organization has stayed alive by abandoning its old reasons for being and has taken on new functions. These and related questions must be seriously asked and answered by members of any organization before they contemplate the future.