... several CF methods. Techniques used for the project itself included grand challenges and trend analysis, analysis of best practices through use of benchmarking and horizon scanning, interviews, expert panels, wild card and weak signals analysis, cross impact analysis, SWOT and backcasting. The project...

... on these factors by analysing the empirical studies carried out in the literature. Design/methodology/approach An empirical method of conducting a structured literature review has been adopted in this study. Theory context characteristic methodology framework and meta-analysis are the methodologies applied...

... critical futures and F Polak’s method of social critique and reconstruction in its analysis of the state of inverted totalitarianism in post postmodern times. Findings It finds that the technological society and the US empire (with its attendant corporatocracy, Panopticon and PAC man values) in post...

...Sergey B. Kulikov Purpose The purpose of this paper is to represent an epistemological analysis of Russian sociological scholarship. Design/methodology/approach The analytical approach that allows reducing the particular representations within the sum of propositions is the methodological base...

...Gilbert Fan; Joan Nee Wey Khng Purpose – This paper aims to study the future of the Singapore association of social workers using causal layered analysis (CLA) and the Futures Triangle. In today’s rapidly changing world, professional associations have to re-evaluate their roles to remain relevant...

... technologization leading to artificial societies, and localization leading to a return of the past) and causal layered analysis. The essay concludes with a feminist unpacking of transportation futures. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Transport Analysis Policy Given the reality of the Los Angelization...

...: This article focuses on the motor insurance industry and aims to: provide an initial assessment of the key trends creating the future; outline the drivers creating the future; and, analyse the trends and drivers, using causal layered analysis. A futures approach asks: what in one’s core...

... and Chris Cowan. An analytical tool (cross‐level analysis) is presented for examining views of the world in terms of both the perceptual filters of the viewer and the aspect of the world being viewed, a technique which is also useful for analysing how other scanners do their scanning. A notation for cross...