The critical role of history in scenario thinking: Augmenting causal analysis within the intuitive logics scenario development methodology

Futures

Volumn 77, Issue , 2016, Pages 56-66

  Bradfield, Ronald ^a   Derbyshire, James ^b   Wright, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causation; History; Learning; Scenario planning

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUTURE PROSPECT; GUIDELINE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LEARNING; PLANNING METHOD;

EID: 84959387769     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2016.02.002     Document Type: Article

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