To add to our ongoing discussion if and how corporate foresight adds value to a firm I want to share a very interesting article from Kees van der Heijden, the driver behind Shell’s scenario analysis program and George Burt, who … Continued
In a recent article Dana Mietzner reports on practices of strategic foresight in firms in the biotechnology industry. She proposes a classification of strategic foresight approaches into five groups: Science-driven: building on links to universities and scientific research organizations Network-oriented: … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 or … Continued