Managing Rapid Change in Technology, Globalization and Workforce Diversity: Using Foresight and Organizational Policy to Ensure Futures Thinking
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Call for Chapters – Proposals Due 15 May 2017
To be successful in today's market, organizations must maintain futures thinking orientation. Futures thinking begins with the current state and uses foresight to lay down a path to meet estimated [unknown] future needs. Literature exists which describes use of foresight methodologies to facilitate futures thinking. What is missing from the literature is discussion of organizational policies needed to ensure sustainability of a futures thinking orientation.
The purpose of this book is to bring together case studies from corporations or other organizations that describe effective foresight methods utilized to successfully prepare and respond to rapid change, and the organizational policies developed to ensure that these successful futures-oriented management activities are sustained.
The primary audiences for this book include all professionals working in management and leadership positions, as well as, faculty and students in college business and organizational leadership programs.
Case Studies
Case studies will describe stories of organizational success based on (a) use of foresight methodology to respond to rapid change, and (b) establishment of organizational policy to sustain futures thinking.
The rapid change addressed by the case studies will relate to one or more of the following areas: technology, globalization, and/or workforce diversity.
Authors will describe the following information specific to their case:
Foresight methodology utilized – may include (but not be limited to) the following: scenarios, environmental scanning, expert panels, road-mapping, simulation gaming, as well as, brainstorming techniques such as role-storming, superpowers and time travel.
Organizational policy established – issues addressed may include (but not be limited to) the following: behaviors, compliance, liability, security, growth, as well as, innovation and experimentation.
Management strategies which resulted – may include (but not be limited to) evolving new role for employee, manager and/or organization, as well as, the impact on specific organizational functions such as executive leadership, HR, IT, marketing and/or finance.
The guiding principle for each case is examination of rapidly changing trends in technology, globalization and/or workforce diversity, and the impact on economic and political wellbeing of the organization.
Authors should submit a one- to two-page proposal to both editors by 15 May 2017. Additionally, authors should include a list of their previously published or presented articles relevant to futures thinking or futures-oriented leadership. Upon acceptance of proposal (approximately 15 June 2017), authors will have until 15 September 2017 (tentative) to complete their approximate 5000 word chapter.
Editors:
Deborah A. Schreiber, La Fetra College of Education, Organizational Leadership Program, ULV, La Verne, CA, USA; dschreiber@laverne.edu
Zane L. Berge, Department of Education, UMBC, Baltimore, MD, USA; berge@umbc.edu