This paper reviews the scenario planning literature looking for answers for the following
questions: How do qualitative and quantitative scenario methods differ and what are the …

Renewable energies are rising as solutions for a sustainable, environmentally friendly and
long-term cost effective sources of energies for the future. Renewable energy decision …

The literature on the front end in the New Product Development (NPD) literature is
fragmented with respect to the identification and analysis of the factors that are critical to …

Front-end activities largely influence the outcomes of new product development processes,
because it is here that firms create new ideas, give them direction, and set them in motion …

The goal of decision‐making during the execution of the fuzzy front end (FFE) is to develop a
creative new product concept. Although intuitive decision‐making has been found to …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore a very new approach of creating scenarios
with fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM); specifically to create scenarios for wind energy …

In this research, a national-level wind energy roadmap is developed through scenario
planning. Multiple future scenarios are developed using the fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) …

In this paper, we report on the results of a large-scale study about typical front-end-related
innovation practices in 553 Japanese mechanical and electrical engineering companies …

Organizational knowledge creation, as reflected in new product/service development, is a
vital process for firms to master. Critical to the development of new products/services is the …

Due to a lack of available data, many early planning decisions in engineering and
technology management have to be based on experts' opinions and their qualitative …