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The Future of Logistics : Scenarios for 2025 / by Heiko A. Gracht

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Wiesbaden : Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2008Description: Online-Ressource (XIX, 309p. 43 illus, digital)ISBN:
  • 9783834997647
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783834910820 | Buchausg. u.d.T.: The future of logistics. 1. ed. Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2008. XIX, 309 S.DDC classification:
  • 388.041
  • 658.5
  • 380
RVK: RVK: QP 530LOC classification:
  • HD28-70
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-8349-9764-7Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminary; Introduction; Theoretical Foundations of Futures Research; The Delphi Technique for Futures Research; Fundamentals of Scenario Planning; Scenario Planning in Strategic Logistics Management; Research Design and Methodology; Practices of Scenario Planning in the Logistics Service Industry; Expert-Based Scenarios for the Logistics Service Industry 2025; Summary and Conclusions; Back matter
Summary: Peter F. Drucker, one of the world's most influential management gurus of all times, once said that "the best way to predict the future is to create it". In other words, those managers who systematically study the future have also the power to shape and influence the future. By the means of anticipation they can prepare for the expected as well as the unexpected which allows them to react more flexible and faster than competitors. Futures research, i.e. the interdisciplinary and systematic analysis of the future, has matured to both a theoretic- conceptual and application-oriented research disPPN: PPN: 1647279682Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SBE
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