Scoping ‘Digital Twins’ in Intelligence & Strategic Foresight Projects

In this chapter, we examine the area of ‘Digital Twins’. Recently breaking much more substantially on to the overall business scene and being increasingly adopted by a wide range of organisations particularly in the early 2020s, a ‘Digital Twin’ (defined more fully, below) essentially enables a digital ‘mirror’ to be created and then run in parallel alongside a ‘real’ or ‘physical’ world product and/or process to system (For further insight here, see the definitions that feature throughout this chapter; see also Violino (2023)).