[ Foresight ]
I spent many years in the middle of my career in project controls roles. This meant the collecting, entering, checking, and reporting on project progress data. I used a wide variety of software programs, from very basic spreadsheets, to complicated internally developed systems through to commercial off-the-shelf behemoths.
Consistently, each program required significant effort to report on what happened in the past. The ability to reflect on the past – hindsight – was intricately reported to deep detail.
Consistently, each program did not seem to dedicate equivalent effort to future forecasts – foresight.
And yet, foresight is so much more valuable than hindsight.