Conference on Strategic Foresight, Strategic Agility, and Future Orientation, 17-20 June 2012, Barcelona, Spain

Posted on January 16th, 2012 by René Rohrbeck

While we have been running our own conferences independently in the past, we have now decided to team up with ISPIM to invite a broader audience. Within the next ISPIM Conferences and Symposium we will have our own Special Interest Group meetings and run a track dedicated to:

  • Strategic Agility
  • Environmental Scanning
  • Peripheral Vision
  • Corporate Foresight
  • Organizational Future Orientation

How to participate

To register click here.

In addition to participating in the audience you can also participate as a speaker:

  • Practitioners can propose presentations on own practices or provide short papers and presentations on best practices.
  • Scholars can choose to present early stage research as short academic papers (max. 2500 words) or final research results in full academic papers (max. 5000 words)

To propose a contribution please submit an outline of

  • 600-700 words for practitioner presentations and short academic papers
  • 900-1000 words for full academic papers

For the next conference in Barcelona, 17-20 June 2012 you can submit your contributions for our Special Interest Group until 29 February 2012 to submissions@futureorientation.net.

You can also download the full call for papers here: Call for Papers “Strategic Foresight, Strategic Agility, and Future Orientation”

We hope to see you in Barcelona or in one of our future conferences!

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WikiProject “Futures studies”

Posted on January 15th, 2012 by René Rohrbeck

Recently Wikipedia has launched a new initiative to provide a framework for improvement and organization of future-related articles.

This is

  • a good sign that ‘foresight’ and ‘future orientation’-knowledge is becoming more interesting for the general audience and it is also
  • a nice opportunity for anyone interested in the topic to help building a sound framework for future-related knowledge.

To support the project click here.

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British Academy of Management conference with dedicated strategic foresight track

Posted on January 3rd, 2012 by René Rohrbeck

Following a good tradition the British Academy of Management will run in this year’s conference again a dedicated strategic foresight track. The growing community has also already produced the nice “Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight“.

The conference will be on the 11-13 September 2012 in Cardiff, UK.  A preliminary Call for Papers can be downloaded here.

Hope to see you there!

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Nice Christmas present for Futurists, Strategists and Innovators

Posted on December 15th, 2011 by René Rohrbeck

I just bought myself this very refreshing account of Delia’s experiences of uncorking and tasting the many bottles labeled with terms such as Microtrends, Consumer Insights, Scenarios, Design Thinking or Strategic Foresight.

I met Delia early on her road trip that took her to some of the many inspiring people who work on exploring the future and making sense of today’s dynamic changes.

For newbies this book provides a great first overview of relevant terms and an introduction to the basic concepts that shape future orientation. For us familiar with the topics it provides an external, honest and unbiased perceptive on our fragmented field. And with her authentic writing style Delia provides us with a particularly pleasant reading experience.

For a first impression you can also check out Delia’s video below:

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MBA course on “Tools of Corporate Foresight”, Aarhus School of Business, Feb/March 2012

Posted on December 7th, 2011 by René Rohrbeck

Join
us for our
MBA course
on
“Tools of Corporate Foresight”
at the 

Next spring we will offer a 3 day module on Corporate Foresight. This module is part of our Flexible MBA program, but you can also join the course without following the whole program.

Main topics include:

  • Introduction: Why Corporate Foresight is needed and where is it employed?
  • Method briefing
    • Overview of all methods
    • Group work on scenario analysis, roadmapping and trend portfolios
    • Structuring and working on complex consulting tasks
  • Working with the case companies: running a workshop, desk research, doing a scenario analysis and presenting to the company
  • Reflecting on practical case and on theory of Corporate Foresight

The dates:

  • 11-Feb-2012: Introduction and methods
  • 2-Mar-2012: Meeting with case companies and joint workshop for defining project objectives and scope
  • 5 to 23-Mar-2012: Group work on projects: Working with trend databases and methods of corporate foresight
  • 30-Mar-2012: Final presentation to partner companies

How to join?

  • To be eligible to join the course you need to have completed at least a Bachelor education and have three years of working experience
  • You can check availability and ask about conditions by contacting Rita Madsen.
  • For any questions on content and course structure you can contact me.

 

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