Olaf Helmer

Thinkers1910 to 2011Futurist and logician

Works

  • An Experimental Application of the Delphi Method to the Use of Experts, Management Science, 1963
  • Cross-impact analysis (with Theodore J. Gordon), 1966

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A logician who worked at the RAND Corporation from 1946 to 1968, where with Norman Dalkey and Nicholas Rescher he developed the Delphi method of anonymous, iterated expert forecasting. With Theodore J. Gordon he devised cross-impact analysis, first played as a card game called Future, and in 1968 he co-founded the Institute for the Future.

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