At times when change seems to be the only constant, long wave theories help in conceptualizing periods of systemic transition. The Kondratieff wave theory describes the functioning of the socio-economic system as fluctuations of growth and decline in a 40-60 year cycle. Socio-economic transformations typically affect broadly societal structures, practices, technologies, and organising models. In this study, the societal change process was studied by focusing on emerging ways to use the future as basis of good decisions in the present. In this study, novel approaches to forward looking were examined in case studies on low hierarchy organisations and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Studies were made by interviews, and in one case also by non-pa...
The starting point of this thesis assumes that the present world is in a state of flux that creates ...
What Works furthers the practice of foresight in organizations, institutions, cities and nations. Di...
The difficulty faced by all organisations today is how to stay up to date with what is happening in ...
In July 2002 the First International Conference on "Probing the Future: Developing Organisational Fo...
It is argued that the degree of change required for the developed world to move to a sustainable pat...
This dissertation studies the creation of futures knowledge in the practice of foresight. By futures...
This is the first report published for the project The 6th Wave and Systemic Innovations for Finland...
[[abstract]]Futures studies is the systematic study of possible, probable and preferable futures inc...
Pioneers drive futures. The book chapter presents pioneer analysis as a useful approach for the anal...
Futures Studies are one valuable tool to help businesses develop their Strategic Planning, in their ...
There has always been a critical, emancipatory tradition within futures studies. Although those voic...
There is a great difference between ordinary and emergent complex systems [1]. One of main differenc...
Foresight is the long-term view into the future or different futures, defined as the more action-ori...
Despite the basic idea of scenarios as providing a heuristic for identifying, understanding and resp...
Large scale societal and political changes can be enabled via open and collaborative innovation proc...
The starting point of this thesis assumes that the present world is in a state of flux that creates ...
What Works furthers the practice of foresight in organizations, institutions, cities and nations. Di...
The difficulty faced by all organisations today is how to stay up to date with what is happening in ...
In July 2002 the First International Conference on "Probing the Future: Developing Organisational Fo...
It is argued that the degree of change required for the developed world to move to a sustainable pat...
This dissertation studies the creation of futures knowledge in the practice of foresight. By futures...
This is the first report published for the project The 6th Wave and Systemic Innovations for Finland...
[[abstract]]Futures studies is the systematic study of possible, probable and preferable futures inc...
Pioneers drive futures. The book chapter presents pioneer analysis as a useful approach for the anal...
Futures Studies are one valuable tool to help businesses develop their Strategic Planning, in their ...
There has always been a critical, emancipatory tradition within futures studies. Although those voic...
There is a great difference between ordinary and emergent complex systems [1]. One of main differenc...
Foresight is the long-term view into the future or different futures, defined as the more action-ori...
Despite the basic idea of scenarios as providing a heuristic for identifying, understanding and resp...
Large scale societal and political changes can be enabled via open and collaborative innovation proc...
The starting point of this thesis assumes that the present world is in a state of flux that creates ...
What Works furthers the practice of foresight in organizations, institutions, cities and nations. Di...
The difficulty faced by all organisations today is how to stay up to date with what is happening in ...