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Venturing into the Wilderness Preparing for Wild Cards in the Civil Aircraft and Asset-Management Industries




TekijätMendonca Sandro, Cunha Miguel Pina e, Ruff Frank, Kaivo-oja Jari

KustantajaElsevier (Commercial Publisher)

KustannuspaikkaLondon

Julkaisuvuosi2009

JournalLong Range Planning

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiLONG RANGE PLANNING

Lehden akronyymiLRP

Vuosikerta42

Numero1

Aloitussivu23

Lopetussivu41

Sivujen määrä19

ISSN0024-6301

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2008.11.001

Verkko-osoitehttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024630108001143


Tiivistelmä
We consider ways in which radically uncertain and disruptive events may be introduced into corporate decisionmaking structures. As a foresight concept, "wild cards" refer to trend-breaking/trend-creating events that are very hard or even impossible to anticipate, but that should nonetheless be expected in complex and fast-evolving environments. The discussion is grounded in the experience obtained in two strategic foresight projects carried out in two industries - civil aviation and investment banking. The unique strength of these cases is that they constitute concrete and rare examples of disclosed business foresight studies that, from the start, included an explicit wild card element. Most interestingly, both of these cases are analytically linked to the September 11 event, a severe instance of a wild card. A key rationale for wild card-friendly foresight research is that it is a source of critical inputs for the generation of robust decisions precisely when the organisation is under pressure from unexpected dramatic strategic discontinuities. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.



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