Foresight in Organizations: Methods and Tools

✍ Scribed by Patrick van der Duin

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 269
Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Foresight for Organizations will acquaint the reader with various foresight methods and tools, to show the reader how these methods are used, what the pitfalls are and how the methods relate to each other. This innovative volume offers the reader the ability to carry out a study of the future by him- or herself and apply the results in a decision-making strategy process.

The author addresses the following methods: scenarios, trend analysis, the Delphi method, quantitative trend extrapolation, technology assessment, backcasting and roadmapping; the most relevant and popular methods that also cover the range of approaches from predictive, via normative to explorative. Every chapter also contains references to additional literature about the methods being discussed.

This book is essential reading for researchers, academics and students in the areas of Community Development, Sociology of organizations, Change management, Social entrepreneurship, Sustainable development and participative planning.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
2 Developing Scenarios
3 Trend Analysis
4 The Delphi Method
5 Technological Forecasting
6 Technology Assessment
7 Backcasting
8 Roadmapping
9 Interviews
10 Workshops
11 The Future Recycled: Meta-analysis for Foresight
12 The Acceleration Method
13 Creativity in Foresight: Seven Exercises
14 Foresight and Creativity
15 Stakeholder Analysis
16 Causal Loop Diagramming
17 Beyond Visualization: Experiencing the Future
Index

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