Lean Foresight

Abstract

Foresight is a framework that can be used by organizations as a tool to elaborate a possible vision or visions of the future. Identifying ways to reach the future vision that is more attractive, this framework has been created from the experience and best practices of a group of professional futurologists and is used in all kinds of organizations in the public or private sectors linked in an intrinsic way to the strategic planning process, based on the constant collection of information, the creation of scenarios, and the definition of medium- to long-term visions. It is due to this complexity in their execution that the practice of foresight has generally occurred in organizations of a certain size and is not widespread among entrepreneurs, individuals, or in small teams. To address this area of opportunity the author has structured an agile and compact version of the framework, with the simplified objective of providing its users with a degree of sensitivity toward a reduced set of future options and the author has called it Lean Foresight.

Citation

Saldaña-Lugo, M.F. (2019), "Lean Foresight", Corrales-Estrada, M. (Ed.) Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A New Mindset for Emerging Markets, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-701-120191003