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Strategic foresight: matching environmental uncertainty

open access: yesTechnology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2012
This paper explores how strategic decision-makers select and use foresight practices and techniques for handling environmental uncertainty. Our research is based on a multiple-case study of corporate organisations that recently faced major changes in their external environment and increasing turbulence.
Riccardo Vecchiato
exaly   +5 more sources

Managing Transdisciplinarity in Strategic Foresight

open access: yesCreativity and Innovation Management, 2010
Strategic foresight deals with the long term future and is a transdisciplinary exercise which, among other aims, addresses the prioritization of science and other decision making in science and innovation advisory and funding bodies. This article discusses challenges in strategic foresight in relation to transdisciplinarity based on empirical as well ...
Rasmussen, Birgitte   +2 more
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Strategic learning, foresight and hyperopia

open access: yesManagement Learning, 2014
Analogous to long-sightedness, hyperopia describes the condition of being able to grasp with acuity matters which are far removed from current experience (temporally, spatially or cognitively) while encountering difficulty in interpreting and acting on that which is close at hand.
Mackay, David, Burt, George
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Rigidities of imagination in scenario planning: Strategic foresight through ‘Unlearning’ [PDF]

open access: yesTechnological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020
The emergence of strategic foresight from scenarios has constantly puzzled theorists. Whilst practitioners and scholars of scenario planning contend that scenarios generate strategic foresight by both stretching a manager's mental model by exposing them ...
George Burt, Anup Karáth Nair
exaly   +2 more sources

Strategic perspectives in foresight

open access: yes, 2013
In the presentation, I conceptualised foresight as strategic intelligence. I provided four examples on strategic perspectives in foresight: 1) futures knowledge: temporal continuum and imaginaries; 2) strategic roadmapping; 3) foresight and organisational knowledge, and 4) foresight and socio-technical transition. After this I made brief conclusions.
Ahlqvist, Toni
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Corporate Foresight and Strategic Decisions

open access: yes, 2013
Summary: The investigation of the future of an organization has always captivated the attention of academics and business managers. Presently, the aspiration to entrench future-relevant insights into management practices is a must.
Claudio Gomez Portaleoni   +3 more
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Cultivating strategic foresight in practise: A relational perspective [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Business Research, 2016
Drawing on relationalism as a theoretical lens, we examine how normative organising structures, rights and authority relationships influence the cultivation of strategic foresight among organisational members lower down the organisational hierarchy.
David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean
exaly   +2 more sources

PRACTICES OF STRATEGIC FORESIGHT IN BIOTECH COMPANIES [PDF]

open access: possibleInternational Journal of Innovation Management, 2009
This paper deals with the practice and requirements of strategic foresight in biotechnology firms. Processes and the degree of method application of strategic foresight are less investigated in small- and medium-sized enterprises. Based on case study research of 30 biotechnology companies in Germany, six different approaches of strategic foresight are
DANA MIETZNER, GUIDO REGER
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Critical strategic foresight

Engineering Management, 2006
There are occasions when individuals working for a business see beyond the intended consequences of strategies, and foresee potentially detrimental unintended consequences. Described as critical strategic foresight, it is likely to come from individuals with some challenging questions about how to deal with the future and, hence, cannot be gathered via
openaire   +1 more source

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