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WALL STREET JOURNAL Credit-Rating Firms Lack Foresight on Sovereign Defaults | A Wall Street Journal survey of 35 years of data has found that Standard & Poor's and Moody's have shown a lack of prescience when it comes to calculating the risk of a country defaulting on its sovereign debt.
Yet, research on the processes through which such firms mobilise foresight in their working environment remains scarce.
The overseas division of a different firm conducted a foresight project in 2010 that identified a need for alternative fuel products in the local market.
Yet they become millionaires not through a financial 'push' ($100 is merely enough these days to buy pants), but through their firm resolve, unwavering foresight, unflinching drive and uncapped ingenuity.
Some foreign firms had the foresight to convert minority stakes in good Indian firms into controlling ones.
It probably won't be the Merrill Lynchs of the world, but if one of those firms had the foresight to cannibalize their existing regime they'd likely establish themselves as leaders in the new era of business.
Desktop Software for Scenario planning usually also incorporates features like automatic creation of scenarios (e.g. Eidos Suite of the firm Parmenides or the Foresight Toolbox of Michel Godot).
 The Global Foresight Group is a global research, development and consulting firm specialized in Strategic Foresight.
However the firm has also had the foresight to design both Falcon 9 and Dragon as "man-rated" systems in full compliance with NASA's technical standards for manned space flight.
This happened even when nobody at the firm was directly involved with foresight activities.
If AOL Time Warner's management changes continue apace, let's hope that the firm at least has the foresight to install revolving doors at the new $1.7 billion Manhattan headquarters it's building.
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