Methods table

The table shows how to organize and compare methods by areas of use: 1) To collect judgments: Genius Delphi, Futures Wheel, Group meetings, Interviews; 2) To forecast time series, and other quantitative measures: Econometrics; Trend Impact Analysis, Regression Dynamics and Structural analysis; 3) To understand the linkages between events, trends and actions: System Dynamics, Agent Modeling, Trend Impact analysis, Cross Impact analysis, Decision Trees, Futures Wheel, Simulation Modeling, Multiple perspective, Causal Layered analysis and Field Anomaly Relaxation. 4) To determine a course of action in the presence of uncertainty: Decision Analysis, Road Mapping, Technology Sequence analysis and Genius; 5) To portray alternate plausible futures: Scenarios, Futures Wheel, Simulation Gaming and Agent Modeling, visualization via Mind Maps, Collages, Films, Sketches 6) To reach an understanding of whether the future is improving: State of the Future Index; 7) To track changes and assumptions: Environmental scanning and Text Mining; 8) To determine system stability: Non-linear techniques.