Journal of Futures Studies, August 2009, 14(1): 1 26 Is there a way to gauge whether one person is more proactive than another about the future? Furthermore, could any of an individual's proactive behavior be explained by their internal disposition, or what Dian (2003) calls a person's foresight style? This paper is a response to Dian's (2009) recent paper introducing the Foresight Styles Asses...

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In Deutsche Bank Research – the independent think tank of Deutsche Bank Group – a group of analysts is delivering foresight for the company's decision-makers, the clients of Deutsche Bank Group, and the interested public. Since a bank's business is assessing, transforming and taking on risk, one of the main tasks of Deutsche Bank Research ́s Macro Trends team is to quantitatively and qualitative...

We study the impact of foresight in a transboundary pollution game; i.e. the ability of a country to control its emissions taking into account the relationship between current emissions and future levels of pollution and thus on future damages. We show that when all countries are myopic, i.e., choose the ’laisser-faire’ policy, their payoffs are smaller than when all countries are farsighted, i...

The paper presents issues related to a systemic approach for the development of foresight studies. Necessary steps are identified and most common methods are analyses, with their weakness and straits. The authors make a point in underlining that foresight is not about methods, but about management of change. Four metastrategies of change are described. Change as an organizational process has be...

We develop a method for measuring the foresight agents have. We first dichotomize an agent’s information at current date t into knowledge up to date t 1 f and expectations after t 1 f. We then form a residual-based test statistic that allows us to compare prediction errors for econometric models based on different values of f. We illustrate the method, examining investment around tax reforms to...