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This conference material describes a 47-item, eight-week real-time Delphi conducted with the Calibrum system and 37 international experts from diverse domains including health and aged care, higher education, government, and business. The work produced a structured reporting guide for Communities of Practice.
The researchers facilitated their real-time Delphi using SurveyLET (Calibrum). Experts evaluated agreement and feasibility, viewed immediate aggregated results with distribution charts and median/interquartile-range statistics, and reviewed anonymous comments before deciding whether to revise their judgments.
In the EU-funded REDIRECT project, researchers conducted three Real-Time Delphi studies on reconnecting citizens, political parties, and parliaments with democratic decision-making. The published report explicitly names Calibrum as the selected platform after evaluating alternatives, citing its practical design, user-friendliness, and reliable support. Surveylet enabled aggregated expert feedback and revisions within the active studies. The follow-up policy recommendations report (D6.3, January 2026) builds on those Delphi findings.
The thesis explicitly identifies Surveylet (Calibrum Inc.) as the platform for an April 2025 Real-Time Delphi. Nine industry experts assessed 352 proposed corporate digital responsibility indicators for priority and traceability; 292 indicators met the study's consensus criteria. The research demonstrates structured, multidimensional expert assessment for responsible digital governance.
This published doctoral thesis combines a real-time Delphi with time-perspective analysis to explore possible post-smartphone futures in Germany through 2040. The project matches the Surveylet post-mobile study identified in Calibrum's project records.
This study used Surveylet for a real-time Delphi with 43 global sports-media experts assessing how emerging technologies, environmental pressures, and audience expectations may reshape the sports-media value chain by 2030.
In its open-access section on software for running Delphi studies, this practical guide identifies Surveylet as software specifically developed for Delphi studies, alongside eDelphi, SmartDelphi, DelphiManager, Mesydel, and RAND ExpertLens.
This international urban-agriculture Delphi used the Calibrum platform to gather expert assessments of sustainable food-production systems, their potential contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and future technological and non-technological drivers.
This international Delphi study gathered estimates from 84 experts to examine how digitization and technological change may reshape freight forwarding over the coming decades. Archived Calibrum project materials for the associated freight-forwarding foresight study confirm that Surveylet was used for the Delphi survey.
This published WHU Delphi report states that its six-week expert survey was administered online using Surveylet by Calibrum. Eighty-four experts assessed 14 projections concerning the future development of professional women's football in Germany.
This published doctoral thesis uses an AI-enhanced real-time Delphi to examine how emerging IT megatrends and Legal Tech technologies may shape German law-firm strategy. The project corresponds to the Surveylet Legal Tech study identified in Calibrum's project records.
The researchers implemented a real-time Delphi in Calibrum with 50 international experts to explore how digitisation and emerging technologies may change craft professions, skills, opportunities, and challenges.
Two real-time Delphi studies were conducted to forecast dominant hydrogen technology bundles through 2035. The published Methods state that both Delphi studies were run using Surveylet by Calibrum.
This follow-on real-time Delphi assessed classification-tree options and criteria for problematic and avoidable plastic products. Its published methodological annex states that the exercise used specialist software produced by Calibrum called Surveylet.
This WHU research report explicitly states that its ten-week Delphi survey was administered using Surveylet by Calibrum. A panel of 103 experts assessed 12 projections about how metaverse technologies could reshape professional football club business models.
This published Delphi research report identifies Surveylet by Calibrum as the online platform used for a six-week study with 99 experts. The panel assessed 25 projections concerning the future product and production model for top-tier sport.
AEMO's published 2024 ISP materials document a Delphi panel used to assess the relative likelihood of three energy-system scenarios. The resulting anonymous expert likelihoods were used as scenario weightings in development of the 2024 Integrated System Plan.
An internet-based real-time Delphi using Calibrum Surveylet involved 47 purchasing and supply-management experts. Surveylet provided immediate quantitative analysis, controlled feedback, anonymous iteration, comments, and consensus/stability measures.
This European Commission industrial-technology roadmap incorporated a Delphi exercise conducted with the Calibrum online tool to gather expert judgments across textiles, construction, chemicals, metals/steel, ceramics, and other energy-intensive industries.
Chatham House convened a country-led real-time Delphi for the UK and Brazil to evaluate criteria for chemicals and polymers of concern and problematic plastic products. The corresponding project and methodology records identify the specialist real-time Delphi platform as Surveylet from Calibrum.
The WHU report states that its four-week Delphi survey was administered using Surveylet by Calibrum. Ninety-one experts from multiple confederations assessed future technology developments and their likely influence on international football.
The STRINGS project mapped development pathways for science, technology, and innovation in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
This published WHU Delphi report explicitly states that the four-month online Delphi was conducted using Surveylet by Calibrum. Fifty-one industry experts evaluated future developments in the sports-sponsorship market through 2030.
This WHU Delphi report identifies Surveylet by Calibrum as the online platform used for a four-week study with 53 experts examining technology, COVID-19, esports, gaming, and other forces shaping the future of winter sports.
This widely useful methods paper reports that, after reviewing web-based providers and conducting a market screening, the authors selected Surveylet as their preferred Delphi platform and discusses its features, service options, and practical setup considerations.
This technical methods paper identifies Calibrum among available web-based real-time Delphi platforms while explaining practical lessons from Delphi-based scenario research. It is a methodological software reference rather than a project-specific Surveylet deployment.
Tourism leaders worked toward a roadmap for a safer, greener, and smarter future for travel and tourism.
This Delphi brought together government, industry, and NGO experts in Europe and North America to identify priorities for validating and adopting New Approach Methodologies in chemical risk assessment. The published article's methodology contains a direct Calibrum website citation, and the project matches Calibrum's archived McGill University Surveylet study on New Approach Methodologies.
This two-round e-Delphi, conducted with 31 practitioners from 24 humanitarian organizations, was administered electronically using Calibrum Surveylet to identify and assess future outsourcing developments in humanitarian logistics.
IMMERSE focused on selecting indicators for a dashboard related to the integration of refugee and migrant children in Europe.
This foresight study examined green-technology diffusion and the quality-infrastructure capabilities needed in developing countries. Its methodology reports that, after reviewing available tools, the team selected the Surveylet tool developed by Calibrum Surveys for the expert Delphi work.
This published industry study reports consensus forecasts concerning adoption of emerging color and appearance management technologies, software, and measurement hardware. It corresponds to the Surveylet APTech/PRIMIR project identified in Calibrum's project records.
This peer-reviewed disaster-relief logistics study reports a two-round Delphi with 31 experts administered electronically using Calibrum Surveylet, examining best practices and future developments in logistics outsourcing.
This conference study used Calibrum as its Delphi platform in two rounds with 69 communications leaders to identify emerging trends, competencies, personal attributes, and organizational responses likely to shape the communications profession.
This high-profile space foresight exercise used a Surveylet-supported Delphi-style expert consultation to explore the future space landscape over a 100-year horizon, including space exploration, settlement, technology pathways, policy, investment, and international collaboration.
This methods report compares tools for generating ideas and exploring consensus and lists Surveylet by Calibrum as a paid platform supporting both Delphi and real-time Delphi, noting its use across European Commission projects.
This important real-time Delphi methodology article compared existing software-based tools and included Surveylet among the evaluated platforms. It is a strong public reference for Surveylet’s position as a professional real-time Delphi platform used in academic and applied foresight work.
A Delphi-based scenario study with more than 100 experts focused on long-term objectives for business leadership education.
This project investigated the future role of social sciences and humanities in Europe and their relationship to social demand and research policy.
This work brought together diverse knowledge and stakeholder values as part of a broader integrated assessment of carbon capture and storage technologies.
This exploratory Delphi study identified how higher-administration leaders in the United States and Poland define ethical decision-making and understand its influencing factors.
A real-time Delphi was administered to 64 experts as part of a combined Delphi and Quality Function Deployment approach. The paper explicitly identifies the platform in a footnote as Surveylet provided by the Calibrum Corporation.
This national Colombian science, technology, and innovation consultation was designed and executed using specialized Calibrum Surveylet software. The government report describes the Surveylet-based consultation structure and subsequent analysis of Calibrum outputs.
This study proposed criteria and metrics that could be used to evaluate and compare recycled water programs.
FESTOS focused on future security threats posed by emerging technologies, including ICT, nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, new materials, and converging technologies.
This independent methodological report evaluates software options for Delphi research and describes Calibrum’s flexibility in question types and branching, multiple rounds, participant communications, Excel export, web publication of results, and available support.
SAFE FOODS focused on an integrated risk-analysis approach that considered consumer concerns and transparency in food risk management.
The ELOST project developed policy recommendations to increase awareness and usage of e-government services among low socioeconomic status groups.
The European Commission study used the targeted RINDICATE online survey and a parallel researcher-mobility survey. The final report states that the targeted online survey was developed using the Calibrum system; more than 6,000 RINDICATE invitations were sent.
This peer-reviewed article emerged from the Colombian biotechnology foresight work and describes the Delphi component of the technology-intelligence process. The publication identifies Surveylet® from Calibrum in connection with the expert consultation.
The Colombian biotechnology foresight report explicitly states that its online Delphi used Surveylet software from Calibrum, licensed by Colciencias and Universidad del Valle. The project assembled a list of 405 invited experts.
The published FISTERA Delphi Report explicitly states that the project used Calibrum Corporation's Surveylet system to design, gather, manage, and process its Delphi questionnaires. The same contemporary report documents Calibrum's online foresight work beginning in 1999, the 2001 Surveylet installation at ICS-UNIDO in Trieste, and subsequent European and Latin American foresight applications.
A contemporary EUFORIA publication identifies the project as an innovative cross-national multilingual online Delphi conducted in English, Finnish, German, and Greek and explicitly identifies the online software as Surveylet from Calibrum Corporation.
The MobiCom project involved industrial partners in scenario planning and insight generation related to the future shape of mobile service markets.
A panel with diverse expertise was invited to make and justify forecasts through Surveylet, then revise based on anonymized forecasts from other panelists.
SCOPE generated 10-year scenarios to guide decisions about future research and technological development cooperation between Europe and other regions.
This multi-region foresight exercise involved experts and civil-society participants in exploring the yucca agricultural chain and technology-transfer mechanisms.
Delphi studies are helpful whenever a team needs structured judgment from experts or stakeholders, especially when the topic is complex, future-oriented, uncertain, multidisciplinary, or difficult to resolve through a simple survey or meeting.
Surveylet can support multi-round Delphi, real-time Delphi, expert prioritization, scenario development, rating studies, stakeholder consultation, and structured feedback workflows across many non-medical domains.
The references below highlight public non-medical Delphi, real-time Delphi, foresight, policy, sustainability, and stakeholder-consensus work. Where a publication or project directly identifies Surveylet or Calibrum, that connection is stated explicitly; other entries are included as broader examples of how Delphi methods are used outside healthcare.
Prioritize options, identify gaps, and gather structured expert input for government, international development, and public programs.
Explore future scenarios, emerging technologies, innovation priorities, and long-term uncertainty.
Develop competencies, future skills, professional standards, and education priorities.
Support stakeholder consensus around sustainability, food safety, water reuse, climate, and environmental programs.
Help leadership teams and expert panels align around strategic priorities, risks, and decision criteria.
Rank research gaps, funding priorities, collaborative opportunities, and future research directions.
Use structured expert input to develop plausible futures, opportunities, threats, and action roadmaps.
Collect and synthesize input from multiple groups while reducing dominance effects and preserving structured feedback.
Help larger groups evaluate options, identify priorities, surface disagreement, and record a structured decision without relying only on sequential open discussion.
Delphi is especially useful when evidence is incomplete, perspectives differ, participants are distributed, or an ordinary meeting risks being shaped by hierarchy or the loudest voices.
Participants can contribute candidly without hierarchy, seniority, status, or group dynamics dominating the conversation.
Panelists can review controlled group feedback, comments, ratings, or rankings before reconsidering their responses.
Teams can define consensus thresholds, identify disagreement, and document uncertainty in a transparent way.
Large lists of ideas, risks, criteria, recommendations, or research questions can be narrowed into an ordered set of priorities.
Experts and stakeholders can participate remotely across organizations, regions, institutions, or countries.
The method provides a clear process that can be documented for reports, boards, sponsors, grant funders, or publications.
They involve uncertainty, multiple perspectives, and questions where one dataset or one expert is not enough.
They bring together experts, stakeholders, practitioners, policymakers, or affected communities.
They use organized rating, comments, feedback, revision, and prioritization rather than informal discussion alone.
Support repeated rating rounds, feedback, comments, and consensus tracking.
Allow participants to review structured feedback and revise responses during an active survey window.
Collect structured input on priorities, scenarios, statements, criteria, and recommendations.
Support comparisons across expert groups, roles, sectors, regions, or stakeholder categories.
Use page sequence randomization and other allocation workflows when survey fatigue or exposure balance matters.
Collect structured quantitative ratings, rankings, qualitative comments, and rationale for decisions.
Prepare responses, comments, consensus status, and round-by-round results for analysis, stakeholder reports, steering committees, publications, and decision materials.
Some teams only need Surveylet as a specialized Delphi platform. Others want help designing the study, structuring the questionnaire, configuring Surveylet, managing rounds, analyzing results, or preparing reports.
For teams with their own methodology lead that need purpose-built Delphi and real-time Delphi administration, participant access and response tracking, ratings and comments, consensus feedback, and data exports.
For teams that want help with study design, questionnaire and scale refinement, Surveylet configuration, launch and round management, analysis and reporting.
Calibrum can provide Surveylet as a specialized Delphi platform, help design and report a multi-round or real-time consensus process, across policy, education, strategy, technology, workforce planning, forecasting, sustainability, stakeholder engagement, and other non-medical fields.