Futures Thinking And Organizational Policy

Author : Deborah A. Schreiber,Zane L. Berge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319949239

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Futures Thinking and Organizational Policy by Deborah A. Schreiber,Zane L. Berge Pdf

This book proposes that organizational policies are what ensure the institutionalization and sustainability of futures thinking in organizations. It presents several case studies from corporations and other institutions that describe effective use of foresight methods and internal policies to respond to rapid change. The case studies address changing trends in technology, globalization and/or workforce diversity, and the impact on the economic and political well-being of the organization. The editors also develop an organizational capability maturity model for futures thinking as well as providing questions for discussion that promote critical review of each case chapter. This book will inform scholars and organizational leaders how best to utilize foresight methodologies and organizational policies to sustain successful management strategies within futures thinking organizations. Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Deborah A. Schreiber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031559563

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Futures Thinking and Organizational Policy, Volume 2 by Deborah A. Schreiber Pdf

Author : Deborah A. Schreiber,Zane L. Berge
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 303155955X

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Futures Thinking and Organizational Policy, Volume 2 by Deborah A. Schreiber,Zane L. Berge Pdf

The case studies in this Volume 2 book support the premise that organizational policies are what ensure institutionalization and sustainability of futures thinking in corporations, non-profits, and educational institutions. Futures thinking here reflects a systems approach utilized by organizational leaders to observe and interpret signals of change or disruption, identify trigger points of impact, employ foresight methodologies to build scenarios of the future and plan action, and then ultimately translate/actualize the most viable scenarios into successful business outcomes. What is new in the field of futures thinking today is not the general source of change (i.e., technology, globalization, and workforce well-being), but the tumultuous level of disruption occurring due to three phenomena—explosive use of social media, shift in great wealth, and government instability. Scholars and practitioners alike will find the case studies in this book provide nuanced insights into such disruptions, as well as discussion of best practices to ensure successful business solutions.

Author : Bart Édes
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789047646

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Learning from Tomorrow by Bart Édes Pdf

COVID-19 wrecked the plans and strategies of organizations everywhere, while injecting greater uncertainty into a world already undergoing disruptive social and technological change. Strategic Foresight can help us navigate through the recovery and beyond. Strategic Foresight is a systematic, intelligence-gathering, vision-building process that helps us manage uncertainty by discerning plausible alternative futures and applying the insights to present-day planning. It is ideally suited to a world upended by the pandemic and rapid transformations in the way we live, work and interact. Using approachable language and a multitude of examples, Learning from Tomorrow shows how Strategic Foresight broadens our perspectives, exposes opportunities and risks, and opens our minds to innovation in a post-pandemic world. It is essential reading for organizational leaders and those responsible for developing strategies, scenarios, policies and plans.

Author : Scott Smith,Susan Cox-Smith
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781398612365

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Future Cultures by Scott Smith,Susan Cox-Smith Pdf

It's hard to know what specific opportunities, technologies or challenges the future will bring. If you want to overcome the uncertainties of tomorrow, it's essential that you build a future culture. The potential for success is limitless for businesses which develop a culture designed for innovating and adapting to the future. Drawing upon decades of experience as futurists and consultants, Scott Smith and Susan Cox-Smith offer proven strategies that will allow you to fundamentally rewire your culture so that it becomes more fluent, agile and prepared to deal with whatever tomorrow will bring. From futureproofing your brand and manifesto to adapting the experience of your workforce, Future Cultures offers practical tools and techniques that will bring your focus out of the past and into the future. Through first-hand interviews and case studies from multinational companies such as IBM and the UN, this book will show how you can join the world's most innovative businesses by prioritizing tomorrow today.

Author : Haridimos Tsoukas,Jill Shepherd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781405142397

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Managing the Future by Haridimos Tsoukas,Jill Shepherd Pdf

In this book, leading authors explore ways in which organizationscan develop their ability to manage the future. An exploration of the ways in which organizations can developtheir ability to manage the future. Consists of ten papers written by authors from both sides ofthe Atlantic and from Asia, all of whom are distinguished scholarsin the fields of strategy or organizational learning. Addresses key questions about how organizational foresight canbe conceptualized and developed, and the extent to which it ispossible. The papers are prefaced by a foreword from Spyros Makridakisand an introduction from the editors. Helps to shape a new research agenda, and so will be ofinterest to academics, as well as to students andpractitioners.

Author : Tuomo Kuosa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317032502

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The Evolution of Strategic Foresight by Tuomo Kuosa Pdf

Embracing the theory and practice of strategic foresight and illuminating how different schools of thought regard its role in policy making, Tuomo Kuosa describes how something not traditionally considered an independent discipline, is steadily becoming one. In The Evolution of Strategic Foresight he explains how the practice of strategic foresight has long been closely associated with the military and politics. Linking strategic thinking more broadly to futurology, however, it is quite new. Since strategic foresight refers to the practice of generating analyses of alternative futures and strategies, based on available intelligence and foreknowledge, the practice can and should be applied to companies, business sectors, national and trans-national agencies of all descriptions, and to all aspects of public policy making. The author explains its practice in terms of structure, process, and knowledge domains, and examines its methodologies and systems, along with how strategic foresight can be used to produce better knowledge and be more effectively linked to policy making. Using examples from 30 different countries and with access to interviews and workshops involving key experts, The Evolution of Strategic Foresight will be valuable to scholars, educators, students engaged in strategy and future studies, long-range, public policy and urban planners, analysts; risk assessment experts, and consultants, managers and decision makers in many organisations, public and private.

Author : Derrick Gosselin,Bruno Tindemans
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers (Acc)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Business planning
ISBN : 9401426686

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Thinking Futures by Derrick Gosselin,Bruno Tindemans Pdf

Thinking about the unthinkable Today's society is facing challenges of an unprecedented global scale. Economic shifts, ageing population, migration flows and climate change - to name only a few - will provide both new problems and new opportunities. Analyses, instruments and methods that were used in the past to prepare for the future no longer work. How can decision-makers and policy-makers cope with all this? This book offers insight into a new approach. 'Future(s) thinking' is a powerful and research-based method of interpreting an unpredictable, changing and complex environment. It can be applied in a range of domains, from political policy and business strategy to innovation and entrepreneurship. In all of these domains, the disciplined application of future thinking can offer a distinct and sustainable competitive advantage. Thinking Futures is a valuable guide for anyone concerned for our future: from politicians to CEOs, from policy-makers to youngsters and from diplomats to intelligence service directors. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Author : Hines Andy,Bishop Peter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0996773401

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Thinking about the Future by Hines Andy,Bishop Peter Pdf

Thinking about the Future distills the expertise of three dozen senior foresight professionals into a set of essential guidelines for carrying out successful strategic foresight. Presented in a highly scannable yet personable style, each guideline includes an explanation and rationale, key steps, a case example, and resources for further study.

Author : René Rohrbeck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790826265

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Corporate Foresight by René Rohrbeck Pdf

Have you ever wondered why even large companies fail when faced with changes in their environment? Would you be surprised to learn that the average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company is below 50 years? This book presents findings from 19 case studies in multinational companies such as Siemens, Volkwagen, General Electric, Philips and Deutsche Telekom. René Rohrbeck proposes a Maturity Model to assess how prepared a company is to respond to external (disruptive) change. He uses data from 107 interviews with board members, corporate strategists, innovation managers, and corporate foresight professionals to present and discuss best practices. Using illustrations to show the complex interaction of corporate foresight with other units such as innovation and strategic management, René Rohrbeck provides the reader with rich insights on how to make an organization agile and reactive towards change. For scholars this book proposes multiple hypotheses and frameworks for future research.

Author : Nikolas Badminton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781399400220

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Facing Our Futures by Nikolas Badminton Pdf

A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future. Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events. In Facing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy. Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.

Author : Yvette Montero Salvatico
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607283041

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The Futurist Leader by Yvette Montero Salvatico Pdf

Today’s challenging landscape is the new reality. It requires businesses to embrace new leadership and organizational development approaches in order to be successful. Recognizing emerging patterns will give leaders a great idea of what the future holds. This TD at Work will provide a framework and tools for doing so; it will: • Define strategic foresight and outline the business imperative for the approach. • Describe how to leverage both the push and pull of the future. • Provide guidance on putting strategic foresight into practice. • Explain how applying the Natural Foresight framework can help you become a futurist leader.

Author : Dmitriy Zakharov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636765416

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Future-Fluent by Dmitriy Zakharov Pdf

Anyone who has visited a foreign place can relate how disorienting it is to lack a command of the local language. To orient ourselves within the human environment and operate effectively in our modern world, we must be able to communicate. Organizations have languages too, and they also find themselves at a loss when they don't have the language they need for the situation at hand. Future-Fluent: How Organizations Use Foresight to Thrive in Turbulent Times makes a compelling case for the modern discipline of foresight as the must-have institutional language in today's increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous landscape. With an eye toward readers of every stripe and sector, this book lays out: How foresight fits into the family of languages that today's organizations have at their disposal How different kinds of institutions use foresight in practice Actionable steps to build future-fluency within your organizations Ways to assess institutional future-fluency and its value in achieving ultimate goals Future-Fluent is ideal for current and future leaders seeking a forward-looking approach to managing and improving their organizations. It aims to inspire futures-thinking, because as the winds of change grow fiercer, foresight offers the best hope for navigating to a brighter tomorrow.

Author : Richard A. K. Lum
Publisher : FutureScribe
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Forecasting
ISBN : 0997278307

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4 Steps to the Future by Richard A. K. Lum Pdf

This practical guide offers a straight forward and step-by-step approach to developing foresight for organizations of all types. Providing a simple model that can be expanded and adapted as needed, this book introduces the fundamentals of good futures thinking in a four step process complete with ready-to-use worksheets, clear process steps, and checklists for good daily habits and critical assessments.

Author : Liam Fahey,Robert M. Randall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0471303526

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Learning from the Future by Liam Fahey,Robert M. Randall Pdf

Unter Szenarioplanung versteht man eine spezielle Methode der Vorhersage zukünftiger politischer, ökonomischer und demographischer Entwicklungen, die das Funktionieren eines Unternehmens beeinflussen können. Diese Technik wird hier von renommierten Vorreitern auf diesem Gebiet ausführlich beleuchtet - so lernt der Manager, verschiedene Implikationen plausibler Ereignisse und Einflüsse systematisch zu durchdenken. (11/97)