Chapter 0 Introduction to the Concepts: the Past, Present, and Future of AI -- Chapter 1 AI in Organization and Management: Systematic Review of Literature -- Chapter 2 Industry 5.0 Vision: Model-Based System Engineering And Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 3 Never Enough Data: Creating a Real...

In 2021, the entities of the United Nations system in Latin America and the Caribbean that are members of the Working Group on Youth of the Regional Collaborative Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean launched a second online survey. The aim was to assess how young people were living a...

Introduction to Intelligence Studies in Business -- A short History of Intelligence in Organizations -- Environmental Scanning -- The Science of Intelligence Studies -- Intelligence Analysis -- The Intelligence Report -- Organizational Models for Information Gathering -- The Technology of...

In four focus group exercises involving both forecasting and backcasting approaches, we gave approximately 100 Australian citizens the opportunity to discuss likely, desirable and feared futures to 2050. The image they paint is both coherent and consistent. Education, governance, personal...

The article presents the experience and results of a research project that used the technique of backcasting. Backcasting is a preferred method in transition management – especially with regard to sustainability issues – as it facilitates the deliberation of complex socio-economic issues and...

Throughout the history people were fascinated and curious about the future. The future was, and still is seen as a key for prosperous development in all aspects of the society. As such, new discipline is developed - future studies. This paper discusses the discipline of future studies and its...

Presentation results the analyze of professional prospects the graduates of Agricultural Faculty - The University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice from the years 1998 - 2002 on the labour market according their graduated programme. The results inform us about finding and characteristic of...

In the first part of the paper an overview of the long-term global economic growth forecasts is presented (e.g., forecasts of Uri Dadush and Bennett Stancil of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a report by HSBC, CitiGroup report, reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers, or Goldman Sachs...

In this article I paint a concise portrait of world economic and population history. Key factors include the world population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The role of technology in relation to the environmental impact of economic activity is represented by an Environmental Efficiency Factor...

This working paper is a preliminary study of some central actors in the future landscape. It argues that the future landscape is a spectrum stretching from institutions claiming independent, objective expertise and scientific certainty about the future, to those focused on the social creation of...

English ------- In today’s fast changing environment large companies need to be fast and flexible to compete successfully against smaller, more agile competitors. Strategic Foresight encompasses a set of tools, processes and organisation forms that enable large companies to identify, assess,...

Strategic Foresight activities enable companies to use weak signals to identify opportunities and threats. Research on Strategic Foresight proposes different methods, discusses their implementation and gives recommendations on how to link Strategic Foresight with other functions in an...

Purpose – This paper aims to introduce a process for constructing long‐term visions of the transport system. The vision building process is demonstrated by creating a concise test vision of the Finnish transport system in 2100. Design/methodology/approach – The vision building process...

Presentation results the analyze of professional prospects the graduates of Agricultural Faculty - The University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice from the years 1998 - 2002 on the labour market according their graduated programme. The results inform us about finding and characteristic of...

Practitioners' views and opinions on the benefits and drawbacks of offsite technologies in the UK construction industry can vary widely, often depending upon their role or position. This research provides an indication of the opinions of the different sectors within the industry, including...

Anticipating the future is increasingly being seen as a useful way to align, direct and improve current organizational strategy. Several such 'future studies' have been produced which envision various construction industry scenarios which result from technological and socio-economic trends and...

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The challenges of the future require a new discipline, Managerial Futuristics, the role of which is to provide a useful framework for decision making by developing reasonable assumptions about the future, these based on assessment of present conditions, identification of future dangers and...