Increasing Foresight awareness; building capacity and demand among entrepreneurs and policy-makers through tailored formal and non-formal educational offers.
The authors, basing their research on organizational models describing the enterprise as an interpretative system [18], prove that the formalized process of foresight increases the ability of the following: Unprecedented events and trends detection, Changes interpretation, Reaction to changes, Organizational learning, and Influencing the decision of co-working entities.
More recent research concentrates on the ability of corporate foresight to increase the innovation capacity of a firm.
In this paper practical ways to reduce the deficit are proposed that ought to increase the responsiveness of Foresight programmes to society's values, concerns and expectations.
Hence, based on a literature review, two management concepts are suggested as means to increase the level of foresight maturity in companies.
Based on the results of an empirical study of Rohrbeck and Schwartz [21], the authors conclude that the formalized process of foresight might increase the ability of Podlaskie companies in detection, interpretation and reaction to unprecedented events and trends.
Increasing the level of foresight culture and cognition [20].
As an example, with regard to measuring the impact, the following measures ("indicators") are proposed: Moving towards interdisciplinary thinking, Establishing a long-term perspective, and Increasing the level of foresight culture and cognition [20].
The idea of foresight is to increase the effectiveness of methodology arsenal, networking processes and focused decision-making [9, p. 14].
Overall, the results of our research may contribute to improve the effectiveness of strategic foresight and to increase its value added to the planning process of corporate firms, while providing helpful insight to public organizations that promote foresight exercises for enhancing the competitiveness of local firms.
