Foresight
Subtitle: The Art and Science of Anticipating the Future
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415398152
Subjects: Management & management techniques; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; General; Business forecasting; Forecasting
Description: "Since the early 1990s interest in foresight has undergone one of its periodic resurgences and has led to a rapid growth in formal foresight studies backed by governments and transnational institutions, including many from the United Nations. However, texts that counterbalance in-depth practical experience with an exposition and integration of the many theoretical strands that underpin the art and theory of foresight are rare." "Foresight: The art and science of anticipating the future provides entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, inventors, scientists, politicians, and many others with a succinct, integrated guide to understanding foresight studies and using them as means for strategy development. The text dispels the belief that anticipations are 'mere guesswork', and conveys the depth of thought needed, implicitly or explicitly, to understand human foresight."--Jacket.