Overview
- First book that can serve as main text for courses dealing with future-oriented leadership
- Specifies how to sustain effective foresight methodologies that will spell success for futures thinking organizations
- Offers a matrix for successfully building a future-thinking organization
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Technological Change
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Front Matter
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Globalization
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Front Matter
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About this book
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 respond to rapid change. The case studies address changing trends in technology, globalization and/or workforce diversity, and the impact on the economic and political well-being of the organization. The editors also develop an organizational capability maturity model for futures thinking as well as providing questions for discussion that promote critical review of each case chapter. This book will inform scholars and organizational leaders how best to utilize foresight methodologies and organizational policies to sustain successful management strategies within futures thinking organizations.
Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Reviews
“Simply the best contemporary collection of best practices and international case studies on futures thinking in organisations. Must-read for all who want to institutionalise foresight practices.” (Rene Rohrbeck, Professor and Leading Industry Expert, Aarhus University)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Deborah A. Schreiber is Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership at the University of La Verne, USA. Dr. Schreiber has been honored with the Charles A. Wedemeyer Award for Distinguished Scholarship for her book Distance Training: How Innovative Organizations are Using Technology to Maximize Learning and Meet Business Objectives.
Zane L. Berge is Professor and former Director of the Training Systems graduate programs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Prior to joining UMBC, Dr. Berge was founder and director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Futures Thinking and Organizational Policy
Book Subtitle: Case Studies for Managing Rapid Change in Technology, Globalization and Workforce Diversity
Editors: Deborah A. Schreiber, Zane L. Berge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94923-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94922-2Published: 14 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94923-9Published: 19 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 416
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organization, Innovation/Technology Management, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Diversity Management/Women in Business, Business Strategy/Leadership, Banking