Prospective hindsight treats a future result as already realized and asks how it happened. This framing can make explanations more concrete. Use those explanations as hypotheses for investigation, keeping assumed outcome certainty separate from evidence about the event’s actual likelihood.
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- FromPremortem (tool)
- Category of its source unitIntervention Methods & Practices
- DomainRisk, Crisis & Safety
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
Related entry
Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.