This paper examines the Delphi technique critically to determine whether it succeeds in alleviating the 'process loss' typical of interacting groups. After briefly reviewing the technique, we go on to consider problems with Delphi from two perspectives. First, we examine methodological and...

Traditional groups meetings are an inefficient and ineffective method for making forecasts and decisions. We compare two structured alternatives to traditional meetings: the Delphi technique and prediction markets. Delphi is relatively simple and cheap to implement and has been adopted for...

This paper discuss a forecast about Swedish travel habit till year 2000, which segments of the market are supposed to demand more travel experiences and in which way are they going to travel. And furthermore is Sweden an attractive destination? The method used in this study is a modified Delphi...

This chapter explores the Delphi technique, which is “a qualitative method for obtaining consensus among a group of experts” (Lewis-Beck et al, 2010). It usually seeks to obtain this consensus through “repeated iterations (usually by email) of anonymized opinions and of proposed compromise...