... audiences. Research methods Scenario planning Creative thinking Soft systems methodology Futures workshop Participatory methods Workshop begins with a futures wheel exercise. Here, the futures wheel is used as a tool for brainstorming performed around a fairly general issue or a question...

.... The latter poses methodological as well as practical challenges for researchers. This paper is an attempt to do just that. Abdul Khakee can be contacted at: abdul.khakee@abe.kth.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Decision-making Environmental management Democracy Creative thinking...

.... Organizational planning Strategic management Creative thinking Competitive strategy Organizational change This may seem an easy task. After all, the concepts of “management” and “future” are closely related. Management is – at least partly – about the future. For every manager, in every organisation...

... of intelligence, the measurement of precaution, and the willingness or failure to gamble on the (sometimes) long shot. Conflict Creative thinking Decision making Uncertainty management Risk management In a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk...

... studies, for example introducing the Methods Combination Matrix (MCM) to examine the dynamics of a mix of methods. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Research methods Design Forward planning Strategic planning Creative thinking Decision making The second attribute refers...

... of the most important trends and issues; to take risks, because new adventures can lead to the change of long‐term plans; and to take care of humanity, as prospective should fundamentally be concerned with implications for people. Culture Change management Creative thinking Communication...

... for purposes of military defence (1503). This scheme and more than 100 other specific conceptions flowed from the imagination of one of the greatest artists of all time. Table I lists some of these novelties. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Creative thinking Innovation Responsibilities...

... knowledge. This creativity first of all can be found in what Florida calls the “creative class” – a group consisting of artists, designers, writers, media people, scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs who have one thing in common: they earn their money by means of creative thinking, designing...