Q2. What was Berger's philosophy on the need to include decision-makers in the collaborative thinking?
Berger emphasized the need to include the decision-makers into this collaborative thinking, as he believed that failing to include them in the process, will result in the failure to trigger meaningful decisions, let alone engage in meaningful collective actions.
Q3. What are the three theoretical launching platforms for corporate foresight research?
The authors see three theoretical launching platforms for such research:• Managerial cognition, which emphasizes the role of the individual and group cognition in shaping perception and influencing decisionmaking (Hodgkinson and Clarke, 2007).
Q4. What is the meaning of "Corporate foresight"?
Authors conceptualize corporate foresight as an ability to alter individual or group cognition in particular through organizational practices.
Q5. What was the main reason for the emergence of corporate foresight systems?
More importantly however, corporate foresight systems faced the demand to create continuous scanning and interpretation approaches (Slaughter, 1990; Brockhoff, 1991).
Q6. What is the way to build a future competitive advantage?
In such environments, firms can either focus on maximizing flexibility and responsiveness, or acquire new capabilities to proactively build a future competitive advantage.
Q7. What can be a catalyst for corporate foresight?
It can be a catalyst, which integrates theoretical foundations from general management theory and the latest empirical evidence from strategic-foresight-related research, and boosts knowledge creation about how organizations can strive in their uncertain and hypercompetitive environments.
Q8. What are the key challenges for the future development of the research stream?
This rapid growth has also resulted in some key challenges for the future development of the research stream, including:• Ambiguous terminologies.
Q9. What was the main objective for editing this Special Issue?
Their main objective for editing this Special Issue and writing this introductory article was to clarify terminology and to provide a platform to catalyse the academic debate within the corporate foresight research stream.
Q10. Why is the strategic foresight system of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology so important?
in other public-private domains such as theplanning of armament as documented in Wiegand et al., strategic foresight approaches have been found to enhance and facilitate planning (Weigand et al., 2014).