...Jan Kleňha Purpose This study aims to investigate whether the use of participatory methods involving nonexperts can improve the quality of foresight outcomes. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a large foresight study for the Czech Government using participatory as well...

...Cinzia Battistella; Roberto Pillon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose and discuss a new regional foresight methodology. Design/methodology/approach The first part describes the methodology and the organizational process adopted for implementing foresight at the regional level...

...Anne Marchais-Roubelat; Fabrice Roubelat Purpose – This paper aims to introduce movements in scenario methodology, to design a moving strategic foresight approach. Design/methodology/approach – The authors firstly question the limits of plausibility from an ontological and epistemological...

... oriented, and foresight should be directly value driven. Design/methodology/approach – The following areas of strategic foresight are offered for discussion: the content of a vision, its emergence process and the characteristics of strategic foresight in time and in space. Findings...

...Rafael Ramírez; Cynthia Selin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore extant distinctions between plausibility and probability in scenario planning and re-frame the either/or stance in the literature within a broader set of methodological choice possibilities. Design...

...‐quadrant model as one way of understanding the knowledge creation process in futures studies. It applies this structurally to knowledge creation through four contrasting futures methodologies. The latter are then recontextualized within the four‐quadrant framework. It is suggested that a rapprochement...

.... In this article, Michel Godet reacts to that claim and makes two fundamental criticisms of their methodology. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Scenario planning Methodology European Commission Camford foresight/ vol.02, no.01, feb.00 th e jou rn al of futu res stu dies, strateg ic th inkin g an d p olicy ©...

... the evolution in methods employed, aims to increase the impact and effectiveness of foresight. Organizing the discussion in terms of objectives departs from previous approaches in the literature which mostly distinguish between different foresight exercises according to the principal methodology used. © MCB...