The Future of Logistics : Scenarios for 2025

by Heiko A. Gracht

Peter F. Drucker, one of the world's most influential management gurus of all times, once said that "the best way to predict the future is to create it". In other words, those managers who systematically study the future have also the power to shape and influence the future. By the means of anticipation they can prepare for the expected as well as the unexpected which allows them to react more flexible and faster than competitors. Futures research, i.e. the interdisciplinary and systematic analysis of the future, has matured to both a theoretic- conceptual and application-oriented research dis

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Year of publication:	2008
Other Persons:	Gracht, Heiko A. (contributor)
Publisher:	Wiesbaden : Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden
Subject:	Logistik \| Logistics \| Szenariotechnik \| Scenario analysis \| Logistikunternehmen \| Logistics provider \| Lieferkette \| Supply chain \| Prognose \| Forecast \| Unternehmensentwicklung \| Szenario \| Prognose 2025
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com] ; Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (XIX, 309p. 43 illus, digital)
Series:	SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Preliminary; Introduction; Theoretical Foundations of Futures Research; The Delphi Technique for Futures Research; Fundamentals of Scenario Planning; Scenario Planning in Strategic Logistics Management; Research Design and Methodology; Practices of Scenario Planning in the Logistics Service Industry; Expert-Based Scenarios for the Logistics Service Industry 2025; Summary and Conclusions; Back matter
ISBN:	978-3-8349-9764-7 ; 978-3-8349-1082-0
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-8349-9764-7 [DOI]
Classification:	Beschaffung, Materialwirtschaft
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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