Category Archives: Theory
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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Operationalization of Dynamic Capabilities
Yesterday I gave a presentation at the meeting of the Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Commission of the German Academic Association for Business Research: Operationalization of Dynamic Capabilities View more presentations from Rene Rohrbeck. I used this opportunity to discuss the … Continue reading
Strategic Issue Management – an ability of Organizational Future Orientation
Ansoff introduced the concept of “Strategic Issue Management” in 1980. A strategic issue is “…a forthcoming development, either inside or outside of the organization, which is likely to have an important impact on the ability of the enterprise to meet … Continue reading
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Tagged Environmental Scanning, Strategic Issue Management
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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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Tagged corporate culture, Corporate Foresight, foresight process
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Theoretical foundation: Strategy as Practice
In our last post on theoretical foundations we described dynamic capabilities. While the dynamic capability perspective can be regarded as the main-stream view in strategic management research, we want to present today an emerging stream: strategy as practice. The dynamic-capabilities … Continue reading
