This book enables analysts in government and the private sector as well as policy advisors and decision makers to assess global risks and opportunities systematically, make well-founded and informed decisions, and anticipate the unanticipated. The authors illuminate the basics of intuitive and analytical thinking and how structured techniques can mitigate the impact of cognitive biases, misapplied heuristics, and intuitive traps. Three case studies illustrate how to apply over 30 Structured Analytic Techniques (SATs) with step-by-step instructions. The final chapter focuses on how to optimize the impact of your analytic product, be it a paper, briefing, or digital display.

Earth For All is both an antidote to despair and a road map to a better future. Using powerful state-of-the-art computer modeling to explore policies likely to deliver the most good for the majority of people, a leading group of scientists and economists from around the world present five extraordinary turnarounds to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation.

The New World of Work takes an evidence-based approach to provide practical advice on how the business and employees can succeed. It covers how to combat stalling productivity, poor wellbeing and the increase in mental health issues in the workplace as well as the need for agile learning, ways to close the skills gap and a refreshingly realistic look at the impact of technology. There is also essential discussion of job design, flexible working, diversity and inclusion (D&I) and how to engage both an ageing workforce and new Gen Z recruits. This book also includes guidance on how to build a business which is responsible, trustworthy and transparent, is based on the principles of 'good work' and is one that employees are proud to work for.

This book presents a foresight-based exploratory analysis on the coming post-capitalist society and the transforming role of technology, creativity, and social innovation in the new economy. Topics analyzed include innovation culture, the role of politics, legal protection, the digitalization of social life, as well as vulnerabilities and opportunities of the Sharing & Collaborative Economy (ShE). ShE is here essentially understood just as a proof of the current Zeitgeist; a sign of its time.

Dieses Buch enthalt die Ergebnisse einer strategischen Vorausschau fur das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium zu den Implikationen der Digitalisierung fur die Soziale Marktwirtschaft mit Zeithorizont bis 2035. Mittels der Foresight-Methodik werden Roadmaps zu acht Schlusseltechnologien sowie sechs Szenarien um Themen wie Plattformokonomie, Industrie 4.0, Kunstliche Intelligenz und Nachhaltigkeit entwickelt. Szenario-Wirkungen werden analysiert und daraus wirtschafts- und ordnungspolitische Handlungsoptionen abgeleitet. Diese interdisziplinare Zusammenarbeit bundelt u. a. Expertise aus der Zukunftsforschung, den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, insbesondere der Wettbewerbsokonomie, sowie den Rechtswissenschaften.