2008

Cloud Computing

By Ben Rodenhäuser

In the IT industry, Cloud Computing has become the buzzword of the day. For Manager Magazine Online, Ben Rodenhäuser analysed what is actually behind the software from the cloud and whether businesses should react to this trend.

In: Manager Magazin Online, October 2008

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Megatrends and the Future of CSR

By Klaus Burmeister

"Over the past decade the importance of CSR for company success has increased dramatically. Today CSR is about saving costs, being an attractive employer and partner, finding innovative solutions, and being competitive. Crucially, CSR has become profitable. The following five key megatrends highlight why the business case for CSR will continue to grow and why, contrary to popular misconception, CSR is not just a short-term trend." ...

In: Forum CSR international, Preview April 2008

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This Is How You Do Future

An Essay

by Klaus Burmeister and Andreas Neef

The role of Corporate Foresight in the business environment is changing. Klaus Burmeister and Andreas Neef analyse what Foresight was, is, and will be.

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Ten Trend-Setting Products

We have drawn up a shortlist of ten “tomorrow’s products” – a small yet classy selection of what we found to be forward-looking in 2007.

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2007

EFMN Foresight-Briefs

The EFMN or European Foresight Monitoring Network monitors ongoing and emerging foresight activities and publishes approximately 40 briefs a year on topics of interest to Foresight professionals. An overview of the briefs published by Z_punkt we provide here:

• Luxembourg First National Technology Foresight. Foresight Brief No. 099/August 2007

• Corporate Foresight in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Foresight Brief No. 101/June 2007

• Emerging S+T Priorities in the Triadic Regions. Foresight Brief No. 42/May 2007

• Linz 21. Foresight Brief No. 085/May 2007