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Foresight in Action

Author : Marjolein van Asselt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136536973
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Foresight in Action written by Marjolein van Asselt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. One of the most widespread approaches is the development of scenarios, which are alternative hypothetical futures. Research has indicated, however, that the reality of how professionals go about employing scenarios is often starkly at odds with the theory - a finding that has important ramifications for how the resulting images of the future should be interpreted. It also shows the need for rewriting and updating theory. This book, based on an intensive five year study of how experts actually go about assessing the future, provides a groundbreaking examination of foresighting in action. Obtained via ethnographic techniques, the results lay bare for the first time the real processes by which scenarios are made. It is also the first book to examine foresighting for public policy, which is so often overlooked in favour of business practice. From handling of discontinuity to historical determinism, the analysis reveals and explains why foresight is difficult and what the major pitfalls are. Each chapter ends with a toolkit of recommendations for practice. The book aims to help readers to reflect on their own practices of public-oriented foresight and thus to foster a deeper understanding of the key principles and challenges. Ultimately, this will lead to better informed decision making.

Learning from the Future

Author : Liam Fahey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471303527
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Learning from the Future written by Liam Fahey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-11-10 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unter Szenarioplanung versteht man eine spezielle Methode der Vorhersage zukünftiger politischer, ökonomischer und demographischer Entwicklungen, die das Funktionieren eines Unternehmens beeinflussen können. Diese Technik wird hier von renommierten Vorreitern auf diesem Gebiet ausführlich beleuchtet - so lernt der Manager, verschiedene Implikationen plausibler Ereignisse und Einflüsse systematisch zu durchdenken. (11/97)

Thinking about the Future

Author : Hines Andy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996773409
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about the Future written by Hines Andy and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about the Future distills the expertise of three dozen senior foresight professionals into a set of essential guidelines for carrying out successful strategic foresight. Presented in a highly scannable yet personable style, each guideline includes an explanation and rationale, key steps, a case example, and resources for further study.

Strategic Foresight

Author : Nick Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781740950046
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Foresight written by Nick Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Marsh presents a set of practical techniques and approaches called Strategic Foresight - proven methods for managing a foresight process within any organisation to produce a dynamic, value-adding strategy and results.

Foresight in Action

Author : Marjolein Van Asselt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138866997
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Foresight in Action written by Marjolein Van Asselt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. One of the most widespread approaches is the development of scenarios, which are alternative hypothetical futures. Research has indicated, however, that the reality of how professionals go about employing scenarios is often starkly at odds with the theory - a finding that has important ramifications for how the resulting images of the future should be interpreted. It also shows the need for rewriting and updating theory. This book, based on an intensive five year study of how experts actually go about assessing the future, provides a groundbreaking examination of foresighting in action. Obtained via ethnographic techniques, the results lay bare for the first time the real processes by which scenarios are made. It is also the first book to examine foresighting for public policy, which is so often overlooked in favour of business practice. From handling of discontinuity to historical determinism, the analysis reveals and explains why foresight is difficult and what the major pitfalls are. Each chapter ends with a toolkit of recommendations for practice. The book aims to help readers to reflect on their own practices of public-oriented foresight and thus to foster a deeper understanding of the key principles and challenges. Ultimately, this will lead to better informed decision making.

Strategic Foresight at the International Monetary Fund

Author : Mr. Alberto Behar
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513593862
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Foresight at the International Monetary Fund written by Mr. Alberto Behar and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This note explains the value of strategic foresight and provides implementation advice based on the IMF’s experience with scenario planning and policy gaming. Section II provides an overview of strategic foresight and some of its tools. Scenario planning and policy gaming have been the Fund’s main foresight techniques so far, though other tools have been complementary. Accordingly, section III focuses on the scenario planning by illustrating applications before detailing the methods we have been using, while section IV describes policy gaming including the matrix policy gaming approach with which we have experimented so far. Section V summarizes the key points. In so doing, the note extends an invitation to those in the economics and finance fields (e.g., researchers, policymakers) to incorporate strategic foresight in their analysis and decision making.

Get There Early

Author : Bob Johansen
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 160994416X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Get There Early written by Bob Johansen and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days, every leader struggles with a paradox: you can’t predict the future, but you have to be able to make sense of it to thrive. In the age of the Internet, everyone knows what’s new, but to succeed you have to be able to sort out what’s important, devise strategies based on your own point of view, and get there ahead of the crowd. Bob Johansen shares techniques the Institute for the Future has been refining for nearly forty years to help leaders navigate what, borrowing a term from the Army War College, he calls the VUCA world: a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. As the institute’s ten-year forecast makes clear, leaders now face fewer problems with neat solutions and more dilemmas: recurring, complex, messy, and puzzling situations. Get There Early lays out the institute’s three-step Foresight to Insight to Action Cycle that will allow readers to sense, make sense of, and win with dilemmas. Johansen offers specific techniques, ranging from storytelling to simulation gaming, as well as real-world examples to help readers turn the VUCA world on its head through creative use of vision, understanding, clarity, and agility. This book offers hope for leaders facing the constant tension—a dilemma in itself—between judging too soon and deciding too late.

Learning from Tomorrow

Author : Bart Édes
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789047641
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Learning from Tomorrow written by Bart Édes and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 wrecked the plans and strategies of organizations everywhere, while injecting greater uncertainty into a world already undergoing disruptive social and technological change. Strategic Foresight can help us navigate through the recovery and beyond. Strategic Foresight is a systematic, intelligence-gathering, vision-building process that helps us manage uncertainty by discerning plausible alternative futures and applying the insights to present-day planning. It is ideally suited to a world upended by the pandemic and rapid transformations in the way we live, work and interact. Using approachable language and a multitude of examples, Learning from Tomorrow shows how Strategic Foresight broadens our perspectives, exposes opportunities and risks, and opens our minds to innovation in a post-pandemic world. It is essential reading for organizational leaders and those responsible for developing strategies, scenarios, policies and plans.

Flash Foresight

Author : Daniel Burrus
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062036556
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Flash Foresight written by Daniel Burrus and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flash Foresight offers seven radical principles you need to transform your business today. From internationally renowned technology forecaster Daniel Burrus—a leading consultant to Google, Proctor & Gamble, IBM, and many other Fortune 500 firms—with John David Mann, co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Go-Giver, comes this systematic, easy-to-implement method for identifying new business opportunities and solving difficult problems in the twenty-first century marketplace.

Strategic Foresight

Author : Patricia Lustig
Publisher : Triarchy Press
ISBN 13 : 1909470686
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Foresight written by Patricia Lustig and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical (field) guide to foresight and foresight tools for leaders in business, the public sector and NGOs, to aid their practice in strategy, decision making and change.

Participation and Interaction in Foresight

Author : Kristian Borch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781956146
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Participation and Interaction in Foresight written by Kristian Borch and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÔThe ten national foresight case studies presented, covering a wide-ranging set of themes (research, science and technology, education and training and the environment) and countries, help to underline the practical aspects of using dialogue and participation effectively in foresight exercises. The book is particularly useful in defining the concept of dialogue, debate, interaction and participation and in outlining a range of uses in different foresight contexts. This book constitutes an important contribution to the futures field and will prove an inspiration to those embarking on foresight exercises and similar open, participatory forward-looking processes.Õ Ð Jennifer Cassingena Harper, Malta Council for Science and Technology This illuminating book combines theory and practice to analyse the experiences and impacts of foresight activities in various European countries. It includes case studies with a focus on different societal issues including national development, science and technology, and sustainable development. The contributors expertly describe and analyse foresight projects carried out in countries at various stages of economic development including mature market economies, transition economies and young democracies. The theoretical chapters on stakeholder participation, negotiation and dialogue, learning, and visioning are useful in the planning and analyses of foresight activities. The case study chapters explicitly demonstrate how the societal context can influence the planning and impact of foresight policy. Scholars of foresight and technology assessment will find plenty of information in this invaluable book. It will also prove essential for Masters courses on foresight or future studies, and public policy courses with a focus on future policy and planning.

Foresight for Science, Technology and Innovation

Author : Ian Miles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319325744
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Foresight for Science, Technology and Innovation written by Ian Miles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision-makers at all levels are being confronted with novel complexities and uncertainties and face long-term challenges which require foresight about long-term future prospects, assumptions, and strategies. This book explores how foresight studies can be systematically undertaken and used in this context. It explicates why and how methods like horizon scanning, scenario planning, and roadmapping should be applied when dealing with high levels of uncertainty. The scope of the book moves beyond “narrow” technology foresight, towards addressing systemic interrelations between social, technological, economic, environmental, and political systems. Applications of foresight tools to such fields as energy, cities, health, transportation, education, and sustainability are considered as well as enabling technologies including nano-, bio-, and information technologies and cognitive sciences. The approaches will be illustrated with specific actual cases.

Safeguarding the Bioeconomy

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309495679
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Safeguarding the Bioeconomy written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy, and other sectors of the U.S. economy. This economic activity, conceptually referred to as the bioeconomy, presents many opportunities to create jobs, improve the quality of life, and continue to drive economic growth. While the United States has been a leader in advancements in the biological sciences, other countries are also actively investing in and expanding their capabilities in this area. Maintaining competitiveness in the bioeconomy is key to maintaining the economic health and security of the United States and other nations. Safeguarding the Bioeconomy evaluates preexisting and potential approaches for assessing the value of the bioeconomy and identifies intangible assets not sufficiently captured or that are missing from U.S. assessments. This study considers strategies for safeguarding and sustaining the economic activity driven by research and innovation in the life sciences. It also presents ideas for horizon scanning mechanisms to identify new technologies, markets, and data sources that have the potential to drive future development of the bioeconomy.

4 Steps to the Future

Author : Richard A. K. Lum
Publisher : FutureScribe
ISBN 13 : 9780997278309
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book 4 Steps to the Future written by Richard A. K. Lum and published by FutureScribe. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide offers a straight forward and step-by-step approach to developing foresight for organizations of all types. Providing a simple model that can be expanded and adapted as needed, this book introduces the fundamentals of good futures thinking in a four step process complete with ready-to-use worksheets, clear process steps, and checklists for good daily habits and critical assessments.

Teaching about the Future

Author : P. Bishop
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137020709
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Teaching about the Future written by P. Bishop and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The faculty at the University of Houston's program in Futures Studies share their comprehensive, integrated approach to preparing foresight professionals and assisting others doing foresight projects. Provides an essential guide to developing classes on the future or even establishing whole degree programs.

Strategic Planning in the Humanitarian Sector

Author : Eilidh Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100046704X
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Planning in the Humanitarian Sector written by Eilidh Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides humanitarian practitioners and policy makers with a manual for how to apply foresight and strategy in their work. Drawing on extensive research, the book demonstrates in practical terms how embedding futures-focused thinking into practice can help humanitarian actors to enhance their impact and fit for the future. The book provides readers with a step-by-step guide to an innovative combination of tools and methods tested and refined over the course of several years. However, it also goes beyond this, by grounding the approach within the broader ambition of making humanitarian action more effective. Overall, the analytical and strategic processes outlined in this book will accompany a decision maker through every stage of creating a robust, agile and impactful long-term strategy. This accessible guide will be an essential point of reference for practitioners and decision makers in the humanitarian ecosystem, as well as students studying humanitarian affairs, global development, conflict studies and international relations.

Introduction to Foresight, Executive Edition

Author : John Smart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736558508
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Foresight, Executive Edition written by John Smart and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foresight is one of humanity's superpowers. We all use it every day, well or poorly, in a foresight-action cycle, to anticipate, create, and manage the future. Foresight professionals are anyone tasked to think about probable, possible, preferable, or preventable futures for others, over any time horizon. Foresight is both a set of time-tested practices, and emerging models of adaptiveness and values, rooted in psychology and complex systems research. We owe it to ourselves, our teams, and our civilization to apply the best practices, models, and worldviews in this vital, exciting, and powerful field. The two books of The Foresight Guide, updated periodically by our team at Foresight University, help executives and students become foresight leaders, starting with themselves and their teams. Book 1 (this book), Introduction to Foresight, covers personal, team, and organizational foresight practices, and their great benefits and challenges. Book 2, Big Picture Foresight (Feb 2022), covers key 21st century models, trends, issues, opportunities, problems, and stories of societal and global adaptiveness, in a world of accelerating change and machine intelligence. Each book is available in both an abridged Executive Edition and an expanded Student Edition. The focus of each book is not just strategic foresight, which will make us more effective in our short-term strategy and actions, independent of our goals and values, but adaptive foresight, or the evidence-based goals, values and practices most likely to improve our personal and group adaptiveness, in any environment, over the long term. This Executive Edition is an ideal text for executives and leaders seeking to understand the vital field of foresight, and to apply it better for themselves, their teams, and in their organizations. Organizational foresight emerged in the mid-20th century, and spans twenty specialties in strategic management, yet it is still poorly understood by many executives and leaders. Read and apply this book, and realize your foresight superpowers.