The Commodification of Festive Culture in New Orleans

Possible futures of crowd logistics for manufacturers: results of a strategic foresight study

“…More specifically, we follow recent evolutions of the French school of foresight . Structured for a long time around the scenario method proposed by Godet (2007), this school has recently relied less on formal tools and adopted more flexible methods that combine expert interviews, documentary analysis and collective mobilization (Bootz et al , 2019), in line with the vision of many foresight specialists (Lüdeke, 2013). These new French schools of thought are based on high levels of participation and have been employed over the past 10 years in some 50 foresight studies in sectors as varied as agriculture, banking, insurance, education, health and energy (Bootz et al , 2019).…”

“…These new French schools of thought are based on high levels of participation and have been employed over the past 10 years in some 50 foresight studies in sectors as varied as agriculture, banking, insurance, education, health and energy (Bootz et al , 2019). Compared with Godet’s (2007) traditional scenario method, it has drastically increased participation thus coming closer to the current and growing trend of open foresight. More specifically, as a collaborative process involving various relevant stakeholders across the companies’ boundaries (Schmidthuber and Wiener, 2018), our methodological approach falls under the collaborative open foresight approach (Wiener, 2018).…”

“…The aim was to design an image of the system under study from which the foresight study could be developed. This image had to be global and had to explain the mechanisms of evolution, highlighting past trends and future developments (Godet, 2007). This first phase was carried out in two stages: the development of the foresight system and the creation of 12 foresight files.…”