Abstract
We are living in an era of accelerated change and uncertainties where disruption in all aspects of our modern lives is the norm. In such context, foresight supported by quality management systems and organizational excellence frameworks comes into prominence as strategic toolset to face these social and economic challenges in organizations and societies and ensure sustainability. Foresight has been widely used by organizations as a strategy to support leadership and decision makers in situations that involve big uncertainties towards the future. The present paper is a conceptual study in the sense it discusses the relationship between organization`s foresight capability and quality management and organization excellence approaches. Essentially, we will attempt to answer the fundamental research question: “To what extent quality management and organizational excellence approaches and models lead to enabling and building future foresight capability of modern organizations?” For that purpose, a survey questionnaire was developed based on literature review, and administered online to leadership of Saudi organizations national wide. Statistical analysis performed. The analysis showed that quality management and organization excellence frameworks implementation in Saudi organizations would be an enabler for successful foresight implementation. This led to pronounce that in order to achieve their strategic objectives in line with the national vision 2030, Saudi organizations should implement quality management systems such as ISO 9001:2015 and the national quality award (KAQA). It is believed that the paper opens a discussion between quality professionals and foresight experts on the potential link between quality management principals and foresight capability in modern organizations operating in an accelerated change environment and disruption.
Highlights
We are living in an era of accelerated change, where disruptive technologies and immerging uncertainties are affecting personal lives, business environment, and national and international policies
This led to pronounce that in order to achieve their strategic objectives in line with the national vision 2030, Saudi organizations should implement quality management systems such as ISO 9001:2015 and the national quality award (KAQA)
With an alpha significance level of 0.05, we can conclude that there is a significant association between the two variables. This would lead us to conclude that quality management and organization excellence frameworks implementation in Saudi organizations would be an enabler for successful foresight implementation. This would lead us to pronounce that in order to achieve their strategic objectives in line with the national vision 2030, Saudi organizations to implement quality management systems such as ISO 9001:2015 and the national quality award (KAQA) [16,17,18,19]
Summary
We are living in an era of accelerated change, where disruptive technologies and immerging uncertainties are affecting personal lives, business environment, and national and international policies. In these situations, foresight research and methods implementation at the organizational and national levels come into prominence to foresight future scenarios and anticipate targeted horizons. The biggest number of studies came from countries like Japan, United States, United Kingdom, Finland, Denmark, France, Germany and Russia, which have large and longer foresight programs national wide. Limited foresight studies were reported from developed countries like Brazil, Columbia and Iran. Very limited studies were published in Arab countries like the MENA region, mainly in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the UAE [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]
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