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  • CD-ROM: 1300 pages
  • Publisher: The Millennium Project
  • Publishing date: April 30, 2009
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 978-0981894119

Futures Research Methodology — Version 3.0

Editors: Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon

The largest, most comprehensive collection of internationally peer-reviewed handbook on methods and tools to explore future possibilities ever assembled in one resource.

Over half of the chapters were written by the inventor of the method or by a significant contributor to the method’s evolution.

The electronic download- contains 39 chapters totaling about 1,300 pages. Each method is treated in a separate file in word (.doc) and PDF format.

The series begins with an introductory chapter to futures research and concludes with a synthesis of methods and speculation about the future of futures research methods. The other 37 chapters cover one specific method (e.g. Futures Wheel, Scenarios) or category of methods (e.g. Systems Perspectives, Normative Forecasting).

Each of the 37 methods includes:

  • an executive overview of each method’s history,
  • description of the method
  • primary and alternative usages,
  • strengths and weaknesses,
  • uses in combination with other methods, and
  • speculation about future evolution of the method.
  • Some also contain appendixes with applications, links to software, and sources for further information.

Available as a downloadable ZIP file.

FRM 3.0 Table of Contents

Introduction to Futures Research
Jerome C. Glenn

Environmental Scanning
Theodore J. Gordon and Jerome C. Glenn

Text Mining for Technology Foresight
Alan L. Porter

Delphi
Theodore J. Gordon

Real-Time Delphi
Theodore J. Gordon

The Futures Wheel
Jerome C. Glenn

The Futures Polygon
Antonio Pacinelli

Trend Impact Analysis
Theodore J. Gordon

Cross-Impact Analysis
Theodore J. Gordon

Wild Cards
John Petersen and Karlheintz Steinmueller

Structural Analysis
Jacques Arcade, Michel Godet, Francis Meunier, Fabrice Roubelat

The Systems Perspectives
Allenna Leonard with Stafford Beer

Decision Modeling
The Futures Group International

Substitution Analysis
Theodore J. Gordon

Statistical Modeling
Antonio Pacinelli

Technology Sequence Analysis
Theodore J. Gordon

Morphological Analysis
Tom Ritchey

Relevance Trees
The Futures Group International and Theodore J. Gordon

Scenarios
Jerome C. Glenn and The Futures Group International

A Toolbox Planning
Michel Godet

Interactive Scenarios
Theodore J. Gordon

Robust Decision-making
Robert Lempert, Steven Popper, Steve Bankes (RAND Corporation)

Participatory Methods
Jerome C. Glenn

Simulation and Games
Erwin Rausch with additions from Frank Catanzaro

Genius Forecasting, Intuition, and Vision
Jerome C. Glenn

Prediction Markets
Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

Using Vision in Futures
Clem Bezold

Normative Forecasting
Joe Coates and Jerome C. Glenn

S&T Road Mapping
T ore J. Gordon

Field Anomaly Relaxation (FAR)
R. Geoffrey Coyle

Agent Modeling (demo software)
Theodore J. Gordon

Chaos and Non-Linear Dynamics
Theodore Gordon

Multiple Perspective Concept
Harold Linstone

Heuristics Modeling
Sam Cole

Causal Layered Analysis
Sohail Inayatullah

Personal Futures
Verne Wheelwright

State of the Future Index
Theodore J. Gordon

SOFI Software System
Peter Yim

Integration, Comparisons, and Frontiers of Futures Research Methods
Theodore J. Gordon and Jerome C. Glenn