I recently sat down with the CEO of a large corporation, who asked a peculiar question: Would I rather have a crystal ball that always showed me the future, or a chessboard that always told me the ...

Strategic foresight and scenario planning constitute complementary approaches that enable organisations and policy makers to anticipate and shape complex, uncertain futures within innovation systems.

Strategy and foresight were once the same discipline. And they should be again. The immediacy of day-to-day operations can lead to a strategic process that is more about ticking boxes and filling ...