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Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers pp 49–64Cite as

Integrating Foresight with Corporate Planning

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An approach is proposed and illustrated for organizations to respond to foresight and roadmapping exercises. While foresight and roadmapping activities are critical for the management and stakeholders of organizations to understand what might be required in the future, in itself the knowledge does not bring the organization any closer to the future anticipated state(s). Consequently, a framework and approach to determine an organization’s current state is offered. Migration from current to possible future state(s) is achieved by recognizing the existing gaps and by closing these gaps through some combination of: development of internal capabilities, acquisition/merger with other organizations, outsourcing, and/or partnering and leveraging other elements of the supply chain. The chapter focuses on the determination of current state and then offers an illustration of comparison to future state and identifying the gaps that may need to be overcome.

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Acknowledgement

The article was prepared within the framework of the Basic Research Programme at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and supported within the framework of the subsidy granted to the HSE by the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Global Competitiveness Programme.

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  1. Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, DMS 6108, 55 Laurier Street, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N1, Canada

    Jonathan D. Linton

  2. Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20 Myasnitskaya Street, 101000, Moscow, Russia

    Jonathan D. Linton

  3. Anderson School, University of New Mexico, 1924 Las Lomas NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA

    Steven T. Walsh

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  1. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

    Leonid Gokhberg

  2. Institute for Statistical Studies and Ec, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

    Dirk Meissner

  3. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Sokolov

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Linton, J.D., Walsh, S.T. (2016). Integrating Foresight with Corporate Planning. In: Gokhberg, L., Meissner, D., Sokolov, A. (eds) Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25628-3_4

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