Foresight: Volume 19 Issue 1

High-probability and wild-card scenarios for future crimes and terror attacks using the Internet of Things

Roey Tzezana

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework to thinking and creating scenarios about future crimes and terror attacks relying on the Internet of Things (IoT), and to…

Wildcards – natural and artificial: the combination of a panel of experts and Fuzzy TOPSIS

Mohsen Mohammadi, Mohammad Rahim Eivazi, Jafar Sajjadi

The purpose of this paper is threefold: to classify wildcards into three particular types sharing similar characteristics; use the Fuzzy TOPSIS as a new method in foresight to…

Reflections on the Canadian Government in competitive intelligence – programs and impacts

Jonathan Calof

This paper aims to present a categorization scheme and use it to classify Canadian Government (federal and provincial) competitive intelligence (CI) programs and to also look at…

A new stochastic multi source approach to improve the accuracy of the sales forecasts

Lucia Cassettari, Ilaria Bendato, Marco Mosca, Roberto Mosca

The aim of this paper is to suggest a new approach to the problem of sales forecasting for improving forecast accuracy. The proposed method is capable of combining, by means of…

Foresight for E-paper development in Taiwan

Chih-Hung Hsieh, Chien-Huei Lin, Jia-Ling Huang

This study aims to analyse the impact of e-paper on many existing industries including paper, publishing, book distribution, display, handheld device manufacturers and content…

Postformal Education: A Philosophy for Complex Futures

Phil Hadridge