Monthly Archives: August 2010
Organizational Future Orientation at the Academy of Management
This years Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Montreal has attracted over 9000 scholars from around the world. Given the size of the conference there were multiple tracks that touched Organizational Future Orientation. My paper was discussed in the Organizational … Continue reading
What is Corporate Foresight for you?
In our research we have found evidence that corporate foresight activities can create value in multiple ways (see also our related posts: 1, 2, 3): scan for discontinuous change and reduce uncertainty trigger organizational responses through integration with strategic management, … Continue reading
Exploring the value creation of corporate foresight
Corporate managers and scholars alike have been wondering if any of the foresight work in companies does create any value. Interesting insights on this question can be found in Frank Ruff’s article, where he discusses different examples of the work … Continue reading
Inter-organizational collaboration for foresight
Creating insights into the future is an demanding task. But from a corporate perspective early understanding of potential change can also yield many benefits, including being the first mover in a new market and being able to demand premium prices, … Continue reading
Does a high foresight ability ensure long term competitiveness?
In a recent article Riccardo Vecchiato and Claudio Roveda from the Politecnico di Milano report on their case study based research. Explaining their motivation they emphasize that foresight research has been focused to a large extent on proposing methods and … Continue reading
