FORESIGHT, A TOOL FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ON THE BASE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES (PRESENTING THE INTEGRATING MODEL)
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Nowadays, organizations face with many challenges and crises in encountering the turbulent conditions and increasing environmental changes; the managers could not easily navigate the ship witout mapping a landscape, strategy and map fitted to current situations and the current of environmental changes and the necessity to updating with these changes, eventually has induced a movement toward new methods of management, including strategic management as a requisite for organization survival. This paper deals with rather new concepts of the strategic management, i.e. foresight. Today, foresight has gained much attraction and consideration by senior managers for compiling the landscape and strategy of the organization. This paper attempts to present a comprehensive set of models by studying the proposed models in the field of foresight with in recent decade, that is, the third millennium and the integrating model should be presented at the end. Mangers by studying it could arrive at a more thourough understanding of the foresight tool and each manager could adopt an applied model according to his organization needs.
Authors and Affiliations
SAMIRA SHAHMANSOURI| Department of Management, NajafAbad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran eMail: s_shahmansouri@yahoo.com
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