...Denis Loveridge © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Robustness Futures Chronotope Values These are two sharply contrasting books that bring out issues that plague thinking about the future under whatever title one wishes to conduct it. Aaltonen and his co‐authors...

... to bear in mind the different scale, scope, and ambitions of different programmes. Simple static comparison of formal inputs and outputs will miss much of the value and value‐added of the activity. Practical implications A dynamic approach to evaluation stresses the learning of lessons about...

...) and Boulding (1994) have both argued that there are a common set of values and visions young people are carrying, albeit unclearly, into the future. Hutchinson (1996) and Gidley (2002, pp.155‐69) concur and have found that gender, education and economic factors impact on the young’s ability to contemplate...

...William R. Rowley This article describes the development of scenarios to stimulate public dialog concerning healthcare values. Different values lead to different futures. America’s current healthcare system has serious difficulties and must be transformed, but the underlying problems...

.... Indeed, I would argue that wider support for the requirement to manage the workforce around X and Y issues is absent. For example, employers of choice are looking to win talent by tailoring employment policy to capture the dynamism of the modern era rather than discrete generational values. Significantly...

... experience. Two notions lay at the heart of the paper: the question of what people will value in their lives, and Maxwell’s notion of a philosophy of “wisdom”. The authors contrast this view with those seeking an epistemological basis for foresight, concluding that the latter does not have much to offer...