Table 6 Some reimagined organizational dimensions of Esfahan Pack Co. in 4 scenarios
From: Using corporate foresight to enhance strategic management practices
Scenario organizational dimension | Orange scenario | Red scenario | Yellow scenario | Green scenario |
|---|---|---|---|---|
No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | |
Energy consumption approach | Fossil energy available for production by quota | Fossil fuels at the hand of factories | Mainly fossil fuels and minorly renewable | Mainly renewable |
Engineering and project management | Demand based for production increase | Based on political lobbies’ commands | Based on needs and expectations of costumers | Creative oriented |
Financial management | Credit supply for covering demand capacity | Pirate-esque division of revenue | Mainly controlled by governmental hierarchy | Private, competitive, socially responsible |
Research and development | Bounded imitative R&D | Non-existent | Regarding needs and expectation of business environment | Properly financed open innovation platforms |
Business environment | Sluggish and conservative | Struggling for survival | Technology-oriented development | Prosperity of startups and entrepreneurs |
Human resource management | Micromanagement based | Personnel management | Incremental effective trainings | Motivate self-expression and talent management |
Strategic management | Midterm fixed plans | Concerned with handling daily conundrums | Preparedness for improvisation | Long term and foresight based |
Organizational identity | Robot like | Regimented/police like | Service oriented/meets average requirements | Anthropocentric/green/socially responsible |