Qualitative Methods
- Action Roadmapping
- Anticipatory Action Learning
- Backcasting
- Brainstorming
- Causal Layered Analysis
- Chaos/Complexity Theory
- Citizens Panels
- Conferences
- Decision Modelling
- Design Thinking
- Discourse Analysis
- Critical Issues Analysis
- Environmental Scanning
- Essays/Scenario Writing
- Expert Panels
- Ecosystem Modelling
- Focus Groups
- Force-Field Analysis
- Future-oriented MLP
- Futures Wheel
- Genius Forecasting
- Heuristic Thinking
- Horizon Scanning
- Interviews
- Literature Review
- Logic Charts
- Morphological Analysis
- Pathways/Transitions Analysis
- Personal Futures
- POP Mapping
- Relevance Trees
- Robust Advice Framing
- Role play/Acting
- Scenarios
- Science Fictioning
- Simulation Gaming
- Surveys
- SWOT Analysis
- TEEPSES / PESTLE / STEEP
- TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving
- Visioning / Vision building
- Weak Signals Analysis
- Wild Cards Analysis
- Workshops
- World Café
Semi-Quantitative
- Actors Indifference Analysis
- Cross-Impact Analysis
- Delphi Surveys
- Field Anomaly Relaxation
- Key/Critical technologies
- Multi-Criteria Analysis
- Polling/Voting
- Prediction Markets
- SMIC Scenarios
- Stakeholder Analysis/MACTOR
- Structural Analysis/MICMAC
- Technology Roadmapping
- Technology Sequence Analysis
- Text Mining
- Value Chain/Network Analysis