Integrating Issue Management and Futures Research:  Achieving Speed, Agility and Relevance in Executive Decision-Making

By Teresa Yancey Crane and Michael Palese

Table of Contents

• New Demands on Management
• Origins and Evolution of Two Complementary Disciplines
• Futures Applications in Corporate Planning:
  The Evolution Toward “Hybrid Foresight”
• Corporate Applications in Issue Management:
  Evolution Toward Strategic Policy Planning
• The Vital Link: “Factors of Influence”
• Common Methodologies
• The Powerful New Executive Decision Support System
• When Worlds Collide… or Coincide