Foresight: Volume 24 Issue 1

What can we know about the future? Epistemology and the credibility of claims about the world ahead

Alan Clardy

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the results of futures studies are knowledge or if not, what it is that futures studies actually produce. Five types of…

The adoption and institutionalization of governmental foresight practices in Singapore

Eddie Choo, Alessandro Fergnani

The aim of this study is to trace the factors that have contributed to the adoption and institutionalization of foresight practices within the Singapore Public Service, Government…

Updating strategy for a high-tech world: constant change from the bottom up and the outside in

William Emitt Halal, Jess Garretson, Owen Davies

The purpose of this study is as follows: update the 1983 survey to determine the strategic practices being used in 2020, draw conclusions on major organizational changes since the…

Towards identifying knowledge bases in KIBS through their service development process

Anastasia Krupskaya, Katia Oliveira Pina

The purpose of this paper is to explore knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS), to understand how they implement their service development (SD) processes and how these…

Ubiquitous conformable systems for imperceptible computing

Sara V. Fernandez, David Sadat, Farita Tasnim, Daniel Acosta, Laura Schwendeman, Shirin Shahsavari, Canan Dagdeviren

Although conformable devices are commonly designed to couple with the human body for personalized and localized medicine, their applications are expanding rapidly. This paper aims…

Future of work: a systematic literature review and evolution of themes

Anjali Singh, Sumi Jha, Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, Abheesh Somarajan

Concerned with the rising social, economic and technological disruption in the world, the impact of the technological disruption had a significant impact on the future of work and…

Fintech – stick or carrot – in innovating and transforming a financial ecosystem: toward a typology of comfort zoning

Romeo V. Turcan, Bernadett Deák

Fintech is an “untilled field” in which the relation between Fintechs and incumbents is yet to be understood. This paper aims to explore this relationship and advance its…