Pero Mićić (born 1967 in

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) is a German professor for Foresight and

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, as well as author,

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and

management consultant Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any way to assist in achieving organizational objectives. Organizations may draw upon the services of management consultant ...

. He is the founder and

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of the FutureManagementGroup AG. Mićić lives in

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Life

Pero Mićić studied

economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

and received his

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in 2007 from Leeds Business School in the

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. He speaks

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and Croatian.

Career

In 1991 Mićić founded the first private company for future management consulting in the German-speaking world, today's FutureManagementGroup AG, of which he is chairman. The

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The (; ''FAZ''; "Frankfurt General Newspaper") is a German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt and is considered a newspaper of record for Germany. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' ( ...

states that Future Management Group ″advises the management teams and strategists of large corporations and leading medium-sized companies. His clients already included

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational technology conglomerate. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the positi ...

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (, ) is a Germany, German multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. ...

and

Lufthansa Deutsche Lufthansa AG (), trading as the Lufthansa Group, is a German aviation group. Its major and founding subsidiary airline Lufthansa German Airlines, branded as Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany. It ranks List of largest airlin ...

, for example″. The firm focuses on improving assumptions and translating future

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into concrete action based on trends and future technologies. Mićić currently works as a

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and

lecturer Lecturer is an academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. They may also conduct re ...

, organizes seminars, and speaks at universities and conferences. He has written several books and commentaries in media such as the german

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, and radio broadcasts. He is regarded as an expert on future management. His book ''The Five Futures Glasses'' has been translated into English, Chinese,

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and

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. In addition, Mićić acted as an

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for the companies AVA Information Systems GmbH in

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, Inoptec Ltd. in

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and

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, and Mapegy in the area of

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and

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. For AVA and Inoptec he also acted as an advisor. He was

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of the supervisory board of the educational company Ibis Acam AG. Mićić was appointed professor for Foresight and Strategy at the Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin in 2019.

Eltville Model

Mićić developed the ''Eltville Model'' of future management. It is based on five human perspectives of the

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, represented by five so-called futures glasses. It differs from other strategy development models in that it also includes foresight in addition to the strategy.

Affiliations

Mićić is a founding member of the

Association of Professional Futurists The Association of Professional Futurists (APF) was founded in 2002 to validate the competencies of emerging futurists. As analysts, speakers, managers or consultants, APF's credentialed members cultivate strategic foresight for their organizatio ...

, a member of the Advisory Board of the Foresight Program at the

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, and Chairman of the International Trend and Future Management Conference. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the European Futurists Conference in Lucerne. In 2017 he became a

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of the

World Futures Studies Federation The World Futures Studies Federation is a global non-governmental organization that was founded in 1973 to promote the development of futures studies as an academic discipline. Its current president is Dr. Erik F. Øverland, Norway. History T ...

. In August 2018, Mićić was appointed by the state government in

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, Germany, to the Council for

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, which was constituted on September 19, 2018 under the chairmanship of Prime Minister

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. The Council is to advise the government in the German state of Hesse on questions of

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in connection with the

digital transformation Digital transformation (DT) is the process of adoption and implementation of digital technology by an organization in order to create new or modify existing products, services and operations by the means of translating business processes into a d ...

of society.

Awards

Mićić was awarded the Strategy Prize by the German Bundesverband StrategieForum in 2012 for the outstanding implementation of a corporate strategy in the sense of the bottleneck-focused strategy, according to Wolfgang Mewes. In 2014, he received the

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at the

Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair (German: , FBM) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. The five-day annual event in mid-October is held at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am ...

. In 2014, ''The Five Futures Glasses'' was awarded the Most Significant Futures Works prize of the Association of Professional Futurists in the category "Advancing the Methodology and Practice of Foresight and Futures Studies."

Selected works

Books

* (2014) ''Wie wir uns täglich die Zukunft versauen – Raus aus der Kurzfrist-Falle''. Berlin: Econ. . * (2011) ''30 Minuten Zukunftsmanagement''. 5th rev. ed. Offenbach: Gabal. . * (2009) ''Die fünf Zukunftsbrillen – Chancen früher erkennen durch praktisches Zukunftsmanagemen''. 2nd ed. Offenbach: Gabal. . * (2010) ''The Five Futures Glasses – How to See and Understand More of the Future with the Eltville Model''. London: Palgrave McMillan. . * (2007) ''Das ZukunftsRadar – Die wichtigsten Trends, Technologien und Themen der Zukunft''. 2nd ed. Offenbach: Gabal. . * (2005) ''30 Minuten für Zukunftsforschung und Zukunftsmanagement''. Offenbach: Gabal. . * (2003) ''Der ZukunftsManager – Wie Sie Marktchancen vor Ihren Mitbewerbern erkennen''. 3rd ed. Freiburg: Haufe. .

Audiobooks, podcasts

* (2018) with Heinrich, Stephan: ''Führen in die Zukunft: Sales-up-Call''. Trier: Heinrich Management Consulting. ASIN B07JHKHHS1. * (2011) with Kleinhenz, Susanne, et al: ''Erfolg-Reich-Sein in der Zukunft''. Berlin: live-academy Publishers. .

Articles

* (2016) Lünendonk, Thomas; Lünendonk, Jonas; Dr. Canibol, Hans-Peter (eds.): ''Handbuch Consulting 2016: 60 führende Partner für Ihr Unternehmen''. Groß-Gerau: fakten + köpfe Verlagsgesellschaft. . * (2011) "Zukunftsmanagement. Mythos und Wirklichkeit." In: Naderer, Gabriele; Balzer, Eva (eds.): ''Qualitative Marktforschung in Theorie und Praxis: Grundlagen, Methoden und Anwendungen''. 2nd ed. Heidelberg: Springer Gabler. , pp. 553–566. * (2010) "Wie Menschen Zukünfte denken und gestalten". In: Burda, Hubert; Döpfner, Mathias; Hombach, Bodo, Rüttgers, Jürgen (eds.): ''2020 – Gedanken zur Zukunft des Internets''. Essen: Klartext Verlag. . * (2010) "Developing Leaders as Futures Thinkers". In: Thorpe, Richard; Gold, Jeff; Mumford, Alan (eds.): ''Gower Handbook of Leadership and Management Development''. 5th ed. Routledge, London and New York. . pp. 547–566. * (2009) with Culjak, Stefan; et al.: ''Management & Führung 1: Erfolgsrezepte von Trainern und Experten''. Offenbach: Jünger Medien Publishers. .

References

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