Dieses Fachbuch beschreibt Chancen und Risiken für Mitarbeitende und Führungskräfte in einer modernen Arbeitswelt. Übergeordnete Entwicklungen wie der demografische Wandel, die zunehmende Digitalisierung und Globalisierung sowie der damit einhergehende Wertewandel verändern die...

This book proposes that organizational policies are what ensure the institutionalization and sustainability of futures thinking in organizations. It presents several case studies from corporations and other institutions that describe effective use of foresight methods and internal policies to...

In this empirical analysis Sara Polier investigates forward-looking external search strategies and their impact on the value contribution of corporate foresight. Based on a mixed method approach combining a quantitative and qualitative analysis of large, R&D-intensive firms, the findings reveal...

What Do We Mean by "the Future"? -- Risk and Uncertainty -- Values and the Future -- Why Do We Want to Know the Future? -- Prediction and Planning -- Seeing the Future: Ideas from Philosophy, Linguistics, and Sociology -- Complexity and the Future -- Analytics and the Future -- Imagination and...

Chapter 1. A Bird’s-eye View of the Economy and Economics -- Chapter 2. What a Creative Economy Is and How It Works -- Chapter 3. Creativity and Intellectual Property -- Chapter 4. Innovation Environment -- Chapter 5. Microeconomic Aspects of Innovation -- Chapter 6. Looking to the Near Future...

Part I: Knowing the Smart City -- Chapter 1. A Definition Problem -- Chapter 2. From City to Smart City: Key Drivers of Change -- Chapter 3. Is There Such Thing as the Smart City 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0? -- Part Ii: Imaging the Future -- Chapter 4. Imaging the Future of Smart Cities -- Chapter 5....

Die Dimensionen der Zukunftsfähigkeit -- Innovation und Handlungsfähigkeit -- Der Wert des Reisens -- Foresight identifiziert Zukunftspotentiale für Unternehmen -- Ex-ante Impact Assessment der ökonomischen und sozialen Wirkungen von Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien: Methodischer Stand,...

Part I. The Baseline -- Chapter 1. Demographic Developments and Other Social Phenomena -- Chapter 2. Impact on the Labor Market -- Part II. Routes to Effective Human Resource Management -- Chapter 3. Demography-oriented Recruitment -- Chapter 4. Strength-based Deployment -- Chapter 5. Age and a...

Chapter 1. The world in transition -- Chapter 2. Analysis and design of a digital business performance -- Chapter 3. Eight fields of action for building digital excellence -- Chapter 4. Change management – shaping change processes successfully.