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Foresight, Competitive Intelligence and Business Analytics for Developing and Running Better Programmes
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Calof J., Richards G., Smith J.
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Anna Grebenyuk, Milshina Y., Sergey Shashnov et al., Foresight 2026 Vol. 28 No. 1 P. 45–65
Purpose
The article proposes an approach for assessing the impact of global trends on human capital and its components. This study aims to contribute to the development of new approaches for assessing the impact of a set of global trends on human capital and its individual components.
Design/methodology/approach
A special methodology was developed based on the use of ...
Added: January 29, 2026
Niyazov S., Maibakh O., Alexei Sukharev et al., Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2026 Vol. 224 Article 124496
This research evaluates the accuracy of Delphi surveys in technology foresight with a focus on the transportation sector by determining the realization status of topics forecasted in the three Science and Technology Forecast Surveys administered by Japan's National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) in 1992, 1997, and 2001. The analysis included 167 topics, ...
Added: January 16, 2026
Jonathan L. Calof, Futures 2025 Vol. 173 Article 103653
For several years, foresight and competitive intelligence (CI) professionals have worked together, learning from each other and adopting each other's approaches. For example, in 2024 an affiliation agreement was signed between a CI and a foresight association. This article examines this professional development and looks at the extent to which academia has done the same. ...
Added: July 18, 2025
Sokolov A., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. Ch. 3 P. 17–34.
The chapter outlines the crucial role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in global economic and societal development, emphasising their contributions to creating industries, generating employment and addressing Grand Challenges. Foresight, defined as a systematic, participatory future-intelligence-gathering process, is presented as an essential tool for supporting policy-making, particularly in developing countries. The chapter explores the ...
Added: June 4, 2025
Saritas O., Kotsemir M., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. P. 115–208.
The South Africa 2030 Foresight study, utilizing big data analytics, aimed at advancing the national innovation system and enhancing knowledge generation capacity. This chapter presents outcomes from bibliometric and semantic analyses conducted by ISSEK HSE. Bibliometric analysis explored South Africa’s research competences, scientific capacity and global collaborators, revealing mature and emerging research areas. Semantic analysis ...
Added: February 14, 2025
Saritas O., Veselitskaya N., Sokolov A., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. Ch. 4 P. 35–53.
This chapter provides an overview of the Foresight methods, which were used in the South African Foresight for STI (SAForSTI) process. The SAForSTI 2030 exercise brought together a variety of qualitative and quantitative Foresight methods with innovations in their use. Over years, Foresight has embraced a spectrum of quantitative and qualitative methods from various disciplines ...
Added: January 9, 2025
Cham: Springer, 2024.
Using a new methodology for foresight studies, this book presents new findings and policy recommendations to improve living conditions and make progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Using the case of South Africa, the respective chapters show how social and economic challenges can be addressed in an inclusive and sustainable way. The book ...
Added: January 9, 2025
Chulok A., Kotsemir M. N., Radomirova Y. Y. et al., Foresight 2024 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 365–391
Purpose. The purpose of this study is to create a methodological approach for identifying priority areas for science and technology (S&T) development and its empirical application within the city of Moscow. This research uncovers a wide range of multicultural and multidisciplinary global trends that will affect the development of major cities in an era of ...
Added: February 29, 2024
Marina Boykova, Knyazeva H., Salazkin M., Foresight and STI Governance 2023 Vol. 17 No. 4 P. 80–91
The challenges the futures studies face are particularly complex, interconnected, and contradictory, and cannot be resolved using linear approaches. Prognostic science needs tools matching the new contextual complexity, which would allow to capture a much wider range of driving forces, and their potential effects, in a non-linear perspective, to improve the accuracy of forecasts and ...
Added: January 25, 2024
Diana Salyakhova, Peter Panfilov, , in: Towards Industry 5.0. Selected Papers from ISPR2022, October 6–8, 2022, Antalya.: Switzerland: Springer, 2023. Ch. 6 P. 65–74.
In an era of digitalization many companies face the challenge of making prompt and viable management decisions. Decision Automation aided with Business Intelligence provides dramatical improvements to the quality and efficiency of management decisions, as well as business processes modelling and analysis. The aim of this paper is to develop methods and tools for automation ...
Added: March 6, 2023
Kravchenko T. K., В кн.: Стратегическое планирование и развитие предприятий: материалы ХХIII Всероссийского симпозиума. Москва, 12–13 апреля 2022 г.: М.: ЦЭМИ РАН, 2022. С. 263–265.
This paper proposes an approach to choosing the optimal strategy for increasing market share in Russia for SberCloud, which focuses its activities on providing cloud services. The approach is based on a combination of competitive intelligence methods and decision-making methods. An analysis of the identified external and internal factors of the company made it possible ...
Added: October 27, 2022
М.: ЦЭМИ РАН, 2022.
The publication presents the materials of the reports of the participants of the XXIII All-Russian Symposium "Strategic Planning and Development of Enterprises". The reports cover a wide range of topical theoretical and practical issues related to strategic planning and enterprise development. ...
Added: October 25, 2022
Saritas O., Burmaoglu S., Ozdemir D., Futures 2022 Vol. 137 Article 102916
This study examines the recent evolution of Foresight as a well-recognized tool for long-term policy and strategy making and discusses the future directions the activity might take. The science mapping approach is used for the analysis. Drawing on big data, science mapping provides an evolutionary overview of scientific domains across time and helps to identify ...
Added: September 12, 2022
Sokolova A., Futures 2022 Vol. 135 Article 102875
One of the central objectives in foresight development is increasing its effectiveness and impact upon decision-making. This paper is focused on improving the link between foresight and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy by overcoming the barriers that stand in the way at the very beginning of a foresight study. For this purpose, the key ...
Added: May 24, 2022
Proskuryakova L. N., Journal of Environmental Management 2022 Vol. 316 Article 115169
The article contributes to the research discussion around the human-natural and social-ecological systems by identification of a comprehensive list of global trends related to integrated interaction between environmental systems and human development, including climate change, pollution, new quality of economic growth, and challenges for education and healthcare. The foresight study behind it encompasses a combination ...
Added: May 13, 2022
Chulok A., Российский журнал менеджмента 2021 Т. 19 № 2 С. 151–176
This article presents the results of a comprehensive research of foreign and Russian studies in the field of corporate foresight, identifies their key research questions, conducts a structural analysis of cases, gives a classification and summarizes characteristics of domestic projects using foresight methods since the 90s of the past century. The search for an effective ...
Added: March 20, 2022
Miles I., Saritas O., Sokolov A., Rio de Janeiro: EDITORA FIOCRUZ, 2021.
This book sets out to draw out the key lessons from the experience of the last few decades. It will focus particularly on Foresight dealing with Science, Technology and Innovation (ForSTI—Foresight for STI). The meaning of these terms will need to be spelled out in more detail, but at this point we shall note that the STI field ...
Added: March 18, 2022
Саляхова Д. Р., Panfilov P., Горшков Г. С., Известия Санкт-Петербургского государственного электротехнического университета ЛЭТИ 2021 № 10 С. 76–85
The paper is devoted to the development of methods and tools for automating the decision process using BI tools at various stages of management. The stages of the decision process and business analytics are analyzed and an architectural solution for integrating these processes into a flexible methodology is proposed, practical business cases for implementing this ...
Added: January 16, 2022
Calof J. L., Foresight 2020 Vol. 20 No. 5/6 P. 563–577
Purpose
Given the importance of competitive intelligence (CI) to the economic performance of firms, understanding whether CI practice is impacted by firm size or by their awareness of CI maybe important when creating programs designed to improve firms’ CI performance. This paper aims to address this by examining the extent to which the CI practices of ...
Added: November 1, 2021
Hakmaoui A., Oubrich M., Calof J. L. et al., Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2022 Vol. 174 Article 121139
Since banks are competing in challenging and dynamic market environments, an anticipatory system generating futures-relevant knowledge is of primordial importance for an effective bank strategy. The objective of this research is to investigate how corporate foresight and competitive intelligence, considered as parts of an anticipatory system, create knowledge. Our main contribution lies in arriving at ...
Added: November 1, 2021
Aleksandr Chulok, , in: Bio#Futures. Foreseeing and Exploring the Bioeconomy.: Cham: Springer, 2021. Ch. 25 P. 563–580.
Blended Foresight approach for global bio trends ...
Added: June 22, 2021
Proskuryakova L. N., Kyzyngasheva E., Starodubtseva A., Smart Energy 2021 Vol. 3 Article 100025
The global electric power industry is under pressure due to economic downturn, decreasing demand, lowering energy prices, and growing non-payments. National electric power industries face similar challenges. These challenges pose threats to many other sectors of economy due to ongoing digital transformation. The paper focuses on the Russian electric power industry future development trajectories, as ...
Added: June 7, 2021