Strength analysis

This technique has as its goal to detect the dynamics and composition of the environmental forces that can drive future changes through a systematic procedure. The opinion of experts becomes a fundamental component since it is used as a means of identification, description and analysis of cause and effect. It promotes an initial look into the future and demands a response to it. The procedure involves 7 steps: 1) Definition of the field of study. 2) Selection of the participants. 3) The definition of “force” as the set of events, pressures or technologies that impact or drive change in the subject being studied in various ways. 4) Analysis of the present and immediate past of the forces defined. 5) Selecting a manageable number of forces to be projected. 6) Development of past synthesis that describe the nature of each force and its impact upon the field of study. 7) Predict the future nature of each force, as well as predict their impact. Its utility is provided in the definitional phase of Foresight since it provides an initial explanation of certain events and their impact. Its limitation is that its greatest impact predictions are so abstract that determining the moment in which they manifest is complicated.