The Delphi method of forecasting is particularly useful for business owners needing to navigate the emergence of new technologies or incorporate new trends that have little historical data. While quantitative forecasting and market research are useful when you have data and statistics on hand, the Delp...
Interpreted visual analytics of these five dimensions (both individually and in combination) provide researchers, practitioners and editors with clear insights about whether the Delphi technique is still as prominently used, discussed, and written about in the academic literature as it was twenty years...
The Delphi method Due to the fact that cultured meat has not yet been introduced to the market, it is necessary to use forecasting methods to build a reliable foundation for exploring the future of cultured meat. To generate the aspired future scenario of the potential development of cultured ...
What Is the Delphi Method Used for? The Delphi method is used to establish a consensus opinion about an issue or set of issues by seeking mutual agreement from a group of experts in the relevant field. The Delphi method has been used to conduct research in numerous areas, from the defense...
Compared with a single forecasting method, a combination forecast can provide more robust results (Li et al., 2019), because there is no forecasting model that can always beat other models (Song et al., 2019). In this paper, simple average forecast combination is used to generate four combi...
3.1 The Delphi method The Delphi method is a research technique with an extensive history in the humanities and social sciences (Häder and Häder 2000). Since then, it has increasingly been used in business, health, and environmental fields (e.g., Fletcher and Marchildon 2014; Gnatzy et...
'An Application of the Project Delphi Forecasting Method to Logsitics Management' Journal of Business Logistics, 2, 1, 1980.McDermott, D. R. and Stock, J. R. (1980), "An application of the project Delphi forecasting method to logistics management", Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 2 ...
The Fuzzy Delphi Method for expert-based data collection was adapted to guide the measurement of item identification. The expert comments came from a two-round Delphi questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed semi-structurally and it asked experts to subjectively assess the items according to the...
Nevertheless, the Delphi method has its limitations and has been criticized over past years (Goodman, 1987; Linstone and Turoff, 1975; Rowe and Wright, 1999): no direct interaction between the experts; the development of a Delphi study takes time; participants take a great deal of effort; ...
Forecasting the future implications of IoP technology and processes on the manufacturing industry is made difficult by the high uncertainty of the technological advancements. Here, the Delphi method provides a structured approach to derive reliable future scenarios based on expert assessments (Landeta2006...