Foresight and Innovation - How Companies Are Coping With the Future

"Foresight and Innovation: How are Companies Coping with the Future? is a concise guide for readers that are interested in their personal or their organization's future. Written by Finnish futurist Elina Hiltunen, the book introduces various ideas in relation to how organizations could be better prepared for the future. It tackles the idea that you should be humble when facing the future, but not subservient. In practice, this means that we should anticipate various futures (or scenarios) and be preparedfor them, at least mentally. On the other hand we - as individuals and organizations - are in a key position to ensure a better future for us all. This is achieved by innovating and communicating the future. The book consists of numerous examples of how various organizations are coping with the future and gives the reader practical tools as to how to work with the future"--

List of contents

1. Change 2. Some Thoughts about Predicting the Future, its Ease and Difficulty 3. Blindness and Seeing 4. Cornerstones of Anticipation 5. Strategy 6. How and Why is Anticipation Done in Organizations? 7. How do we Innovate the Future? 8. Future Methods for Innovation 9. Examples of Creating the Future and iInnovation Activity

Product details

• Authors: E Hiltunen, E. Hiltunen, Elina Hiltunen, Hiltunen E
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2013
• EAN: 9781137337696
• ISBN: 978-1-137-33769-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Management, Operations Research, B, Planning, Leadership, Economics, Organization, Business and Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Organizational theory & behaviour, Innovation/Technology Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research and Decision Theory, Economics, general, business strategy, Management & management techniques, Research & development management, Management decision making, Management science, Industrial Management, Decision Making, Palgrave Business & Management Collection