Category Archives: Reviews
Adapting foresight practices to firm’s needs
In a recent article Patrick van der Duin and Erik den Hartigh present a convincing argument for the need to adapt corporate foresight practices to the firm that applies them. More specifically they look at how corporate foresight is integrated … Continue reading
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Are firms really so bad at interpreting trends?
In a recent article Elie Ofek and Luc Wathieu argue that companies struggle not with identifying emerging trends but to interpret them correctly. This confirms our own findings that showed that firms where generally hard to surprise about a trend … Continue reading
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Are corporate foresight and open innovation related concepts?
We find, yes. In a recent study in which we mapped open innovation instruments of Deutsche Telekom, we found that looking into the future, sometimes takes the form of a collaborative foresight exercise. You will see in our presentation below … Continue reading
Conference report: 5th Workshop on Organizational Change and Development
Last month, from 23th – 24th of September, I attended the 5th workshop on organizational change and development in Vienna, Austria, organized by EIASM. About 30 articles were presented on topics like organizational change, crisis management, organizational learning and dynamic … Continue reading
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Building Future Orientation without a foresight process
In the past, corporate foresight research was often based on processes and fixed structures. It was assumed that specialized units within the organization collect data by using specific methods like scenario analyses and roadmapping. Then recommendations for following processes (e.g. … Continue reading
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