Variations to the Imen-Delphi procedure aimed at helping in the emergence of communities of interests

The Imen-Delphi (ID) procedure was designed in the early 1990s in order to facilitate a discussion among a group of panellists sharing a common future interest. The goal of the ID procedure was to help the participants clarify their opinions and expectations regarding their preferable and possible futures. Thus, it helped them commit themselves to the task of implementing their desirable agreed-upon future (Passig 1993). This paper aims, after a decade of using the technique, to evaluate its potential for Futures Research. In this paper, we scan a variety of studies that have been conducted using the ID procedure. The paper highlights the variables of the ID versions and discusses their benefits for the study of the future.