Hoping to detect such foresight at an early stage, a few technology companies and laboratories, including the Interval Research Corporation and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, have recently financed artists in residence, gambling on the unfettered powers of aesthetic imagination.
The UK represents a significant portion of trade within the single market and the EU economy as a whole, and the exit process will need a considerable amount of thought and foresight at a time when emotions are high.
The second most common response (27.2 %) was that managers did not track foresight results at all.
The results are assessed with the help of a transpersonal psychology model distinguishing three levels of intelligence; foresight acts at all three levels, but with priority on the highest level, where cultural, ethical and other value-setting issues are determined.
Those few of us who, several years ago (and with amazing foresight), picked De Villepin as a sure thing to beat Sarkozy to the Presidency, can just manage a smile at all this.
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He is managing director of Foresight at Discern Analytics and teaches on the future of engineering and the impact of technological change at Stanford University in California.
Investors might be showing such exceptional foresight at the moment, or they may simply be spotting imaginary signs of life in a dead parrot.
Karl Wilding, head of policy, research and foresight at the National Council of Voluntary Organisations: "Self-regulation enables charities to work in partnership with local authorities".
