Shaping the future of startups and small and medium enterprises
Acknowledgments
Table of contents
Foreword
Foreword
Executive summary
1 Introduction to futures thinking and strategic foresight
     1.1 Futures thinking and strategic foresight
     1.2 The importance of futures thinking
     1.3 Introducing the foresight brief series
     1.4 The ITU approach to strategic foresight
     1.5 Objectives of the ‘Shaping the future of startups and small and medium enterprises’ foresight brief
     1.6 The case for startups and SMEs
2 Sensing in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world
     2.1 Exploring signals of change for a startup and small and medium enterprise landscape
3 Analysing and refining key drivers of change
     3.1 Drivers and critical forces influencing future evolution of startups and small and medium enterprises
     3.2 Drivers
     3.3 Weak signals with disruptive potential
4 Visualizing possible future scenarios
     4.1 Key drivers for exploring potential future scenarios
     4.2 Plausible future scenarios
     4.3 Exploring a range of scenarios
     4.4 Four transformational scenarios
     4.5 Visualizing transformational scenarios
     4.6 Wildcard events
5 Prioritizing the desired scenario
     5.1 Stress-testing the scenarios
     5.2 Narrowing down to the desired scenario
     5.3 Enablers of the desired scenario
6 Actioning the desired future
     6.1 A roadmap to maturity
     6.2 Actions to drive future-ready startup and SME ecosystems
7 Managing the ecosystem
     7.1 Strength in stakeholder collaboration
     7.2 Activating implementation mechanisms
Annex
Glossary
References