How to increase Foresight awareness among companies?
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 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.
The use of foresight or the strategic foresight approach has been increasing in large companies to increase the innovation competence of organizations [4, 5] and to support strategic management [6].
The early 21st century has seen a plethora of future-oriented roadmaps and foresight exercises focused on increasing food supply, often with the aid of advances in technology, in order to feed a growing global population under conditions of uncertain climate change.
Thus, created an analytical framework that integrates the dynamic capabilities approach with existing results on potential value contributions of foresight, enriched with existing findings in networked foresight and organizational design in the light increasing importance of inter-organizational networks.
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.
