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 theRead More…
Case study: The organisation of Corporate Foresight: A multiple case study in the telecommunication industry
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 trendsRead More…
Industry best practice: The strength of “weak signals”
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. TheRead More…
Research news: Integrating organisational networks, weak signals, strategic radars and scenario planning
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 majorRead More…
Future Screening research published: The practice of foresight in long-term planning
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 abilityRead More…
Case study: IT tools for foresight at Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs)
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) DataRead More…
Industry best practice: Early warning signals and pelican gambits
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 theRead More…
Research news: The value contribution of strategic foresight
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 revenuesRead More…
Research news: An innovation-focused scenario process
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 introduceRead More…
Foresight as dialogue (challenges and observations)
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:Read More…