Futures signals sense-making framework (FSSF): A start-up tool to analyse and categorise weak signals, wild cards, drivers, trends and other types of information

Futures

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-48

  Kuosa, Tuomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; KNOWLEDGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHILOSOPHY; SIGNAL;

EID: 73549097774     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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