Open Foresight Workshops for Opportunity Identification

This chapter provides the reader with different foresight workshop designs for collaborative opportunity identification. It focuses on foresight workshops as a means of opening up the foresight processes and enabling collaborative action. The chapter first introduces the basic procedure of foresight workshops. Then, it lays out the different stages in which a company can open up the foresight process and reasons why this pays off. The chapter also discusses pitfalls that companies must avoid in order to fully seize upon the potential of open foresight processes. It explains how to successfully plan and carry out an open foresight process. Finally, the chapter provides some thoughts on the use of open foresight workshops for opportunity identification. Various examples show how companies like Siemens, Greiner Perfoam, or Volkswagen implemented open foresight workshops and benefited from the positive effects of integrating external partners in their foresight processes.