Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations

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Title: Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations
Author(s): Hayward, Peter
Abstract: This paper will introduce the Viable Systems Model and in particular the Meta System component of that model, as a framework within which to consider how foresight can be facilitated in organisations. It will show how the System 4 function within the Meta-System is in a position to facilitate processes that will produce effectiveness and the development of overall system identity. It will also show how adopting another framework for understanding the paradigms or worldviews that operate in organisations can enhance the likelihood that these processes will be successful.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Australian Foresight Institute
Source: Foresight: the Journal of Future Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy, Vol. 6, no. 1 (2004), pp. 19-30
Publication year: 2004
Keyword(s): Change management; Forecasting; Systems theory
Publisher: Emerald
ISSN: 1463-6689
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14636680410699115
Peer reviewed