Collaborative foresight: Complementing long-horizon strategic planning

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 134-152

  Weigand, Kirk ^a   Flanagan, Thomas ^b   Dye, Kevin ^c   Jones, Peter ^d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Institute for 21st Century Agoras   (United States)

^c Institute for 21st Century Agoras   (United States)

^d OCAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaborative planning; Influence mapping; Strategic foresight; Strategy; Structured dialogic design

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COLLABORATIVE PLANNING; INFORMATION SHARING; PROBLEM DEFINITION; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; RESEARCH ORGANIZATION; STRATEGIC CHALLENGES; STRATEGIC FORESIGHT; STRATEGY;

INVESTMENTS;

GOVERNMENT; PLANNING METHOD; PLANNING PROCESS; RESEARCH INSTITUTION; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 84900553090     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.08.016     Document Type: Article

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