futurology - Futures techniques
Futurists use a diverse range of forecasting methods including:
- Anticipatory thinking protocols:
- * Causal layered analysis (CLA)
- * Environmental scanning
- * Scenario method
- * Delphi method
- * Future history
- * Monitoring
- Backcasting (eco-history)
- * Back-view mirror analysis
- * Cross-impact analysis
- Futures workshops
- * Failure mode and effects analysis
- * Futures biographies
- * Futures wheel
- * Relevance tree
- Simulation and modelling
- * Social network analysis
- * Systems engineering
- ** Thinklets
- ** Visioning
- Trend analysis
- Morphological analysis
- Technology forecasting
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