Enhancing business and technology foresight with electronically mediated scenario process

Foresight

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 16-37

  Piirainen, Kalle ^a   Lindqvist, Antti ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conferencing; Forecasting; Group decision support systems; Organizational planning; Project planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951470461     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636681011035735     Document Type: Article

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