In the telecommunications industry, there is an emerging phenomenon of convergence. Under this convergence phenomenon, the conventional one-service via one-network concept is changing to multiple services via multiple networks. However, our understanding for this convergence phenomenon is vague, thereby resulting in confusion and uncertainty about the market environment. Also, there is limited ...

Traditional Decision Support Systems (DSS) provide strong data management, modelling and visualisation capabilities for the decision maker but they do not explicitly support scenario management appropriately. Systems that purport to support scenario planning are complex and difficult to use and do not fully support all phases of scenario management. We introduce scenario as a core component of ...

This article describes recent efforts to build a worldwide evaluation community. It notes events that led to an almost 200 percent growth in the number of regional and national evaluation organizations in slightly more than one year. Pro®les are provided on the present status of many national and regional evaluation organizations that participated in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation-sponsored intern...

We present Scenario Planning Advisor (SPA), that takes as input the relevant news and social media trends that characterize the current situation, as well as the domain knowledge and generates multiple plans explaining the observations and projecting future states. The resulting plans are clustered and summarized to generate the scenarios for use in scenario planning for enterprise risk managem...

Robust supplier selection problem, in a scenario-based approach has been proposed, when the demand and exchange rates are subject to uncertainties. First, a deterministic multi-objective mixed integer linear programming is developed; then, the robust counterpart of the proposed mixed integer linear programming is presented using the recent extension in robust optimization theory. We discuss dec...

This “reflections from practice” piece explores some of the implications emerging, artificially intelligent tools for futures and foresight prac-ademic community. The authors provide background on these tools, explore, with special emphasis scenarios, a specific tool named “Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer” (hereafter, ChatGPT). examine utility scenarios generated by artificial intellige...