Application Of Foresight Tools to Develop A Community Enterprise For Processing Produce, Village No. 8, Khlong Hok, Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani Province

Abstract

From the impact of the floods in 2011, a group of entrepreneurs turned the crisis into an opportunity from the original capital which was rice fields and a pond during that time there was still a lot of water stagnation, so the entrepreneurs started investing and continued the cultivation until the present day, selling products in the form of fresh fish and sunfish until it became more well known. As a result, in 2015, the community received support from the Pathum Thani Provincial Agricultural Office in setting up a community enterprise and was provided with a variety of distribution channels. The important things that   entrepreneurs attached were standards, cleanliness, safety, and best care in providing services.

          Another important thing in developing community enterprises for sustainability was analyzing the social return on investment of the project (SROI), it consisted of analyzing 5 aspects: (1) Input (2) Activity (3) Output (4) Outcome of (5) Impacts from the development guidelines cause changes in 5 dimensions: (1) Economics (2) Education (3) Environmental (4) Social, and (5) Mind

          From analyzing the ways of using future-looking tools with community enterprise groups towards sustainability, it was found that preparing for change that helped the enterprise group prepare for situations that might occur in the future consisted of (1) Perspective on the future (2) Setting implications for planning (3) Shared decision-making by all parties involved to avoid conflicts in the future.