What About the Future?
New Perspectives on Planning, Forecasting and Complexity
Authors: Phillips, Fred
Free Preview- Prepares readers to think about the future of their businesses, society, and their own lives
- Brings together multidisciplinary perspectives to revisit the concept and understanding of the future
- Helps with proper understanding of planning, forecasting to reduce organizational stress and personal anxiety
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- About this book
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This book closely examines the concept and theory of 'future' from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the practice of forecasting, especially in its interaction with complexity. It highlights the relations between forecasting, decision-making and strategy, mixing technical arguments (but minimal mathematics) with ideas from psychology and philosophy. Rich with examples, the book highlights the role of values and attitudes in deciding how to look at the future.
Written in a casual but precise style that makes the ideas easily digestible, it helps corporate strategists, practicing futurists, and researchers in the field of strategy or public planning gain a fundamental perspective on the future – before starting to predict things.
- About the authors
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Fred Phillips is the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal 'Technological Forecasting & Social Change' (Elsevier). He is currently a Professor at University of New Mexico, USA, and Visiting Scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He is the 2017 winner of the Kondratieff Medal, awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and 2019 recipient of the INEKA Medal. He is a Senior Fellow (and formerly Research Director) at the IC² Institute of the University of Texas at Austin, and a fellow of the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET).
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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What Do We Mean by “The Future”?
Pages 1-7
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Risk and Uncertainty
Pages 9-12
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Values and the Future
Pages 13-20
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Why Do We Want to Know the Future?
Pages 21-27
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Prediction and Planning
Pages 29-44
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- What About the Future?
- Book Subtitle
- New Perspectives on Planning, Forecasting and Complexity
- Authors
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- Fred Phillips
- Series Title
- Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-26165-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-26165-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-26164-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-26167-2
- Series ISSN
- 2570-1509
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 157
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
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