Scope assessment of strategic foresight activities in Argentinean software firms

Abstract

For several decades, the software industry has acquired a central role in the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Companies in the sector are facing an environment of high volatility, dynamism and rapidly evolving technologies, which require the development of foresight capabilities to anticipate future changes and respond proactively. In this context, the present work aims to identify and evaluate the scope of strategic foresight activities undertaken by a group of Argentinean software companies. In pursuit of this, a survey and evaluation methodology is designed and applied to the study of four firms located in the city of Tandil. The main contributions are the methodological proposal and the finding of a greater scope of the first phases of the foresight process, -environment scanning and information analysis-, and the higher degree of compliance identified for the criteria of realization, assigned responsible and frequency.