We are happy to have PhD student Alessandro “Alex” Fergnani spend the Fall semester with us to research the state of foresight. Alex chose to spend his semester abroad with us as he pursues his PhD in Management and Organization from the NUS Business School in Singapore. Alex has already earned a Master of Social Science in Futures Studies from Tamkang University of Taiwan. It is great to learn from the different perspective and experience that Alex brings to Foresight. He is already an accomplished scholar, having published several papers, including “Extracting scenario archetypes: A quantitative text analysis of documents about the future” with Mike Jackson that was published in Futures & Foresight Science, and “Mapping futures studies scholarship from 1968 to present: A bibliometric review of thematic clusters, research trends, and research gaps” in Futures.
A key focus of Alex’s work with us involves helping us to kick off of a State of Foresight project (see related post). In particular, we are working on an article for a general business publication that makes the case for foresight. To support that case, and to support the larger State of Foresight, we are looking at examples of how foresight has been and is being used in the corporate sector.
It’s really exciting to have visiting scholars join us and enrich our understanding of the different ways that foresight is understood and applied. — Andy Hines
