ISPIM SIG | Futures & Foresight

The objective is to enable members to be better prepared for the future by benchmarking and providing relevant insights, practices and tools.

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We enable our members to be better prepared for the future by benchmarking and providing relevant insights, practices and tools.

Our links with Futura and the Futures and Foresight journal highlight our commitment to both the study and practice in the field.

We run sessions, workshops, publications and special issues.

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RESOURCES

FORESIGHT IN PRACTICE INITIATIVE

Jointly we will identify interesting cases on processes, capabilities, tools and applications. Cases will be written by industry-academia writing teams that we will help create. The best cases will be presented and will enter a special issue in a scientific journal. More details

CONTINUOUS FORESIGHT PODCAST

Gartner has launched a new research initiative around continuous foresight. They answer to the request of their clients to help them navigate in increasingly uncertain markets. We had the chance to contribute to one of their first podcasts. You can listen in here: https://www.gartner.com/en/podcasts/thinkcast/continuous-foresight-episode-1

USEFUL LINKS

Competitors of the Future: Why they matter and how to prepare for them. Explore more here.
Future orientation
Three important lessons I learned about business in Covid-19 times
Expanding Corporate Foresight - Rene Rohrbeck. Listen here.

MEET THE TEAM

RENÉ ROHRBECK

EDHEC Business School

STEFAN KOHN

Deutsche Telekom Service

JAN OLIVER SCHWARZ

ESB Business School

HEIKO VON DER GRACHT

Steinbeis University, SIBE

PIERRE-JEAN BARLATIER

EDHEC Business School

Associated co-leaders:

Adam V. Gordon, Aarhus BSS
Bernhard Aßmus, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Simone Kimpeler, Fraunhofer ISI

PAST ACTIVITIES

VIRTUAL 2020

Future of the Aviation Industry - the SIG ran a scenario workshop in which scenarios for the future of the civil aviation industry.were co-constructed.

FLORENCE 2019

Building The Futures & Foresight Special Interest Group Led by René Rohrbeck, Stefan Kohn & Simone Kimpeler