16 February 2015:
Andersen & Andersen (2014) describe in their research the co-evolution of conceptualisations of innovation, innovation policy and foresight over the past seventy years and provide an overview of the various phases of innovation and foresight models:
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22 December 2014:
A research project from Battistella (2014) investigates how eight firms in the telecommunication industry (with sizes ranging from 550 to 120,000 employees) design their organisation to anticipate future trends and detect weak signals in their corporate foresight …
8 October 2014:
The McKinsey authors argue that weak signals are snippets of information about customers and industry trends which can be found in digital information, particularly on social media channels.
The three best practice tips, supported by case studies …
29 April 2014:
While technology has simplified business operations, it also provides tools to organisations which enable a much wider and deeper scanning of the environment for weak signals. Hence, a major challenge for organisations scanning the environment is how …
17 February 2014:
Essential insights from the Future Screening research project have been published in the reputable Elsevier journal “Technological Forecasting & Social Change”.
Researchers and practitioners agree that foresight (the ability to foresee how the future might unfold) is …
14 December 2013:
Deutsche Telekom introduced web-based IT tools (for instance their PEACOQ Scouting Tool) to support its 230,000 employees to share their ideas and insights across three foresight activities:
1) Data Gathering (dg): enabling a large number of contributors …
12 September 2013:
Industries are exposed to systemic risks (the risk of collapse of an entire industry/market) driven by underlying interdependencies (examples include the recent financial crisis, offshore oil spills and the Japanese nuclear disaster). An article from Donaldson & …
22 July 2013:
A research project from Rohrbeck & Schwarz (2013) investigated the value creation of strategic foresight activities in large organisations. The sample included 77 large multinational organisations with annual revenues of EUR 100 million to 1 billion (7 …
3 June 2013:
A recent project from Von der Gracht & Stillings (2013) highlights the significance of innovation for sustainable performance of organisations in order to create long-term competitiveness.
The authors introduce the concept of “dynaxity” (the linkage of dynamism …
9 May 2013:
A recent article from the president of the World Future Society (Mack 2013) describes the challenges of foresight, including data management, scenario building, qualitative data/methods and weak signals management:
1: Discovering the meaning and gaining insight from …