TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarz, Jan Oliver A1 - Schropp, Theresa Constanze A1 - Wach, Bernhard A1 - Buder, Fabian T1 - Do internal foresight activities add value to decision-making? Insights from an empirical investigation JF - Futures N2 - In a large empirical investigation of 400 managers in large U.S. and European corporations, we shed light on the effects of internal strategic foresight activities for decision-making, asking whether and how firms’ internal foresight activities add value to their decision-making. Enabling and supporting strategy conversations is conceptualized here as a central activity of strategic foresight. Our empirical investigation demonstrates that internal foresight activities have a significant and positive effect on strategy conversations within a firm. Against the assumptions of previous research, however, we cannot confirm the positive influence of strategy conversations in general on challenging the status quo in a firm or the overall helpfulness of strategic foresight activities in the context of decision-making. Future research should delve deeper into organizational studies to gain a more nuanced understanding of the processes and factors influencing future-oriented decision-making, as well as identifying key enablers that facilitate these decisions. UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103548 Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103548 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-57703 SN - 0016-3287 VL - 2025 IS - 166 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarz, Jan Oliver A1 - Wach, Bernhard T1 - The usage of cultural products in design thinking: An assessment of an underestimated approach JF - The Design Journal UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2021.2005879 KW - design thinking KW - design research KW - cultural products KW - customers KW - ethnography Y1 - 2022 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2021.2005879 SN - 1460-6925 SN - 1756-3062 VL - 25 IS - 1 SP - 4 EP - 24 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarz, Jan Oliver A1 - Rohrbeck, René A1 - Wach, Bernhard T1 - Corporate foresight as a microfoundation of dynamic capabilities JF - Futures & Foresight Science UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.28 KW - corporate foresight KW - dynamic capabilities KW - futures KW - microfoundation KW - peripheral vision KW - strategic foresight Y1 - 2019 UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.28 SN - 2573-5152 VL - 2 IS - 2 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarz, Jan Oliver A1 - Wach, Bernhard A1 - Rohrbeck, René T1 - How to anchor design thinking in the future: Empirical evidence on the usage of strategic foresight in design thinking projects JF - Futures N2 - Many organizations use design thinking (DT) to develop future products and services. DT is often used for its ability to serve as a common “language” and platform to enable market-facing departments and technology-oriented units to cocreate innovations. DT has been shown to be a powerful tool for helping to identify and connect the needs of average customers (personas) with technical solutions that form the basis for winning products. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which DT professionals already use strategic foresight (SF) methods that anticipate future customer needs and highlight emerging technologies to expand classical DT and anchor their projects in the future. Using survey data on 302 DT projects, we report on the extent to which SF methods are used in DT projects, the overriding types of SF methods in DT projects, and their impact on project success. UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103137 KW - Design thinking KW - Strategic foresight KW - Trends KW - Scenarios KW - Science fiction Y1 - 2023 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103137 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-36135 SN - 1873-6378 VL - 2023 IS - 149 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wach, Bernhard A1 - Schwarz, Jan Oliver A1 - von Held, Felix T1 - Corporate foresight for the benefit of corporates' innovation climate JF - Futures & Foresight Science N2 - Corporate foresight (CF) can be considered a future‐oriented capability that incorporates perceiving and prospecting. Extant CF‐related studies tackle the CF−innovation relationship but do not provide details on how CF relates to innovation climate. As we assume that the innovation climate of companies is a relevant antecedent to innovation, we conduct a quantitative empirical study with 147 upper‐tier managers to investigate how CF and the respective training of managers relate to a corporate's innovation climate. Results show that strong perceiving and prospecting positively influence the innovation climate, whereby prospecting is of particular importance. Further, we find that training managers in future‐oriented capabilities is only under certain circumstances (i.e., low prospecting) beneficial to the innovation climate in companies. UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.195 Y1 - 2024 UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.195 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-51201 SN - 2573-5152 VL - 7 IS - 1 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER -