The complexity of contemporary problems and those we are likely to face in the future compels us to use the best possible methods available. Fortunately, there is a rich legacy of such methods. Our challenge today is to preserve and enrich this legacy. In the spirit of this challenge, LIPSOR (Laboratory for the investigation in prospective strategy and organisation, 3IE (Institute of Computer Science and Innovation for Industries), EPITA (School of Computer Science and Advanced Technologies) and our sponsors are offering free access to our strategic foresight software and helping to broaden the international scope and prestige of the French school of la prospective.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are very grateful to our partners. Thanks to their generous support these software tools are now available for download — free-of-charge.

NEWS

MICMAC, MACTOR, MORPHOL, SMIC PROB-EXPERT and MULTIPOL software programmes are presently available in French and in English. You can download them for free-of-charge from this site.

The Spanish version will be online shortly.

By distributing the toolbox for strategic foresight free on the Internet we run the risk, albeit calculated, of inappropriate use. In order to avoid this problem we recommend that all users read the following: “ The nail’s dream and the hammer’s pitfall” as well as the other reference books.