Comparer des méthodes

	Wild Card Analysis	Emerging Issues Analysis
Domaine	Futures Foresight Studies	Futures Foresight Studies
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	2009	2009
Auteur d'origine	Futures studies surprise-analysis tradition (Millennium Project / Futures Research Methodology); foresight process framing by Joseph Voros	Graham T. T. Molitor; Hawai'i School / Millennium Project
Type	Surprise-assessment pipeline for low-probability, high-impact events	Early-detection pipeline for issues on the S-curve of public attention
Source fondatrice	Glenn, J. C., & Gordon, T. J. (Eds.). (2009). Futures Research Methodology, Version 3.0. The Millennium Project. ISBN: 9780981894119	Glenn, J. C., & Gordon, T. J. (Eds.). (2009). Futures Research Methodology, Version 3.0. The Millennium Project. ISBN: 9780981894119
Alias	Wild Cards, Wildcard Analysis, High-Impact Low-Probability Event Analysis, Surprise Event Analysis	Emerging Issue Analysis, EIA, Issues Emergence Analysis, Weak Signal Scanning
Apparentées	4	3
Résumé	Wild card analysis is a futures method for confronting low-probability, high-impact surprise events — the abrupt discontinuities that conventional planning, anchored on expected trends, tends to ignore precisely because they are unlikely. The discipline of the method is to take such events seriously without succumbing to alarmism: to generate a deliberate set of plausible wild cards, assess each for its likelihood and the severity of its consequences, estimate how much warning the organization would have, and gauge its vulnerability. The payoff is not a prediction but robustness — strategies, capabilities, and contingency plans that hold up across a range of shocks rather than only in the expected future. As codified in the Millennium Project's Futures Research Methodology and located within Joseph Voros's generic foresight process, wild card analysis complements trend-based foresight by deliberately stress-testing the organization against the rare events that, by their very impact, can dominate its fate.	Emerging Issues Analysis (EIA) is a horizon-scanning method, associated with Graham Molitor and the Hawai'i School and codified in the Millennium Project's Futures Research Methodology, for detecting issues at the earliest, weakest-signal stage — long before they register as trends or reach public consciousness. Its organizing idea is that issues, like technologies, follow an S-curve of public attention: they begin in obscure, marginal sources, accelerate as advocates and specialists pick them up, and only later become widely recognized trends and finally mainstream concerns. The strategic value of catching an issue on the flat, early part of that curve is enormous, because that is when there is the most time and the most room to respond. EIA therefore deliberately scans the fringe — specialist literature, activist publications, patents, subcultures, marginal voices — to spot the small clouds on the horizon and position them on the issue lifecycle.