... only Innovation Decision making Analysis Strategy Strategic planning Forward planning Several studies have highlighted an increasing use of foresight by corporations (Daheim and Uerz, 2008 ; Sarpong et al., 2013 ; Hodgkinson and Healey, 2008 ; Vecchiato, 2015 ; Sarpong...

... in a total failure. Decision making In the face of adversity and increasing number and frequency of natural and man-made disasters, countries nowadays try to make every possible effort to establish and maintain adequate levels of nationwide resilience. Enterprise resilience is considered...

.... Design/methodology/approach Starting from the main literature contribution on Regional Innovation Systems, foresight and decision-making processes, an innovative methodology has been elaborated for strategic planning, based on innovation and large participation processes. A practical application is also...

...Effie Amanatidou; C. R. Correa; C. H. Cagnin Purpose – This paper aims to propose a model, based on strategic simulation and scenario planning, to improve the decision-making process in the Brazilian defence area. Design/methodology/approach – Participants are disposed in three levels...

... within corporate foresight. Cornelia Daheim can be contacted at: daheim@z-punkt.de © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Strategy Decision making Forecasting Systems theory Scenario planning Uncertainty management Informed knowledge about the future is the backbone...

... A. Practical implications This article suggests that some managers may find it challenging to see the relevance in temporally distant and uncertain futures into their decision‐making activities. Therefore, those involved in strategic planning may find it productive to connect these uncertain futures...

...Tugrul Daim; Yung‐Chi Shen; Grace T.R. Lin; Gwo‐Hshiung Tzeng Purpose This study aims to propose a hybrid technology evaluation process integrating the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) technique and the analytic network process (ANP) with novel MCDM method...

...Jonathan Calof; Jack E. Smith Purpose The aim of this article and special issue is to propose a framework for foresight impacts on policy and decision making. The need to identify direct impacts, measure them and identify the factors that lead to impact is the primary objective of the special...

...Jonathan L. Calof; Jack E. Smith; Jonathan Calof; Riel Miller; Michael Jackson Purpose This article aims to focus on how to ensure that Future‐Oriented Technology Assessment (FTA) activities have an impact on decision‐making. On the basis of the extensive experience of the authors...

... – possibility comes after reality, not before: Riel Miller can be contacted at: riel.miller@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Strategy Scenario planning Complexity theory Risk management Philosophy Decision making The lack of a contemporary philosophy of the future...

...Olugbenga Adesida; Geci Karuri‐Sebina; Thembani Mbadlanyana; Nompumelelo Sibalukhulu; Jakkie Cilliers Purpose The purpose of this article is to understand alternative African futures as an aid to improved decision‐making and action by governments and by other key agents and stakeholders...

... for decision making on global as well as regional problems. The concept of fully “learning to unlearn” is of primary importance, as well as that of not “discounting the future”, for which several methods and techniques have been analyzed and suggested. For interesting observations concerning the last...

... players to staff financial houses on Wall Street. According to Bloomberg News, brokerage firms and hedge funds are adding poker wizards to their rosters of traders because of the “talent and analytical tools” they possess: “rational approach towards risk, speedy decision‐making under pressure, discipline...

... change (Barack Obama, Prague, 2009). Jacques G. Richardson can be contacted at: jaq.richard@noos.fr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Conflict Creative thinking Decision making Uncertainty management Risk management A shocking revelation, especially when one considers...

... methods Design Forward planning Strategic planning Creative thinking Decision making This paper is based on the various outputs of the EFMN [1] monitoring activities (see Popper et al. 2005, 2007a, b ; Keenan et al., 2006) and a sister initiative carried out in Spanish...

... to be a future Soviet‐Cuban military base. Each was false. Research limitations/implications Decision making includes assumptions about the future and invites the use of foresight. Such foresight, of course, can be presumptively true and, thus, useful. But also it can be wrong, sometimes...

... to more appropriate and more effective outcomes in both sense‐making and decision‐making. Originality/value The article's concept of chronotope space enables us to dissect the complex tradeoffs between the properties of strategic landscape and the time frame at stake. While moving from...

... resources through science and technology (S&T) and through applying water saving techniques (e.g. drip irrigation). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Egypt Water Decision making Stakeholder analysis Foresight methods have been integrated into Egyptian strategic planning...

... Limited 2007 Forecasting Decision making Public sector organizations Strategic planning Canada Since its foundation, Quebec had to concern itself with its own future. New France, colonised by S. de Champlain in 1608, but practically left to its own devices by France, was handed over...

...Sandrine Paillard Purpose This paper seeks to explore the interrelationships between futures studies and public decision making in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach Based on a series of interviews conducted in Stockholm in December 2003, this paper presents the main players...