Environmental Scanning

2015 ◽  
pp. 2955-2964
Author(s):  
Barbara Holland
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Peripheral Vision ◽  
Environmental Scanning ◽  
Organizational Practice ◽  
Futures Research ◽  
User Behaviors ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The Future ◽  
Strategic Foresight

To capsulize the future needs of library users, Management must consistently collect, analyze and diffuse information on trends that are internal and external affecting user behaviors and needs. Environmental Scanning is an organizational practice of screening external demographic, cultural, social, political, technological and legal trends in an effort to foresee and meet the needs of users in the future. This article examines environmental scanning, futures research, peripheral vision, and corporate/strategic foresight as tools for strategic planning, and assisting Managers in making better decisions concerning libraries, businesses and other organizations.

Cloud Libraries

2014 ◽  
pp. 316-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayank Yuvaraj
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Planning Model ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Retrieval Strategies ◽  
The Future

On-demand computing power at modest cost, tied with faster Internet accessibility in the Cloud has offered the future of Cloud libraries. This chapter presents a snapshot of what is happening in the arena of Cloud libraries. It presents the features, its promises, components that drive a Cloud library, users and the services, infrastructure, information sources, and retrieval strategies in the Cloud. Further, it presents a Cloud strategic planning model for its realization in libraries. Whereas a lot of work has been done on the technical aspects and implications in health and medical services, there is lack of focus on the implication of Cloud computing in a library setting. This chapter is a self-conscious attempt in filling some of the gaps.

Cloud Libraries

2015 ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Mayank Yuvaraj
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Planning Model ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Retrieval Strategies ◽  
The Future

On-demand computing power at modest cost, tied with faster Internet accessibility in the Cloud has offered the future of Cloud libraries. This chapter presents a snapshot of what is happening in the arena of Cloud libraries. It presents the features, its promises, components that drive a Cloud library, users and the services, infrastructure, information sources, and retrieval strategies in the Cloud. Further, it presents a Cloud strategic planning model for its realization in libraries. Whereas a lot of work has been done on the technical aspects and implications in health and medical services, there is lack of focus on the implication of Cloud computing in a library setting. This chapter is a self-conscious attempt in filling some of the gaps.

2. The future multiplied

2017 ◽  
pp. 44-62
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Gidley
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Futures Research ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Strategic Foresight ◽  
Scientific Positivism

What if there is not one future that can be colonized and controlled, but many possible futures that can be imagined, designed, and created collaboratively? In everyday language we speak of a singular future, which has both conceptual and political implications. ‘The future multiplied’ outlines early future research—influenced by scientific positivism—with its predictive-empirical approach, then discusses pluralism in the social sciences and the shift to multiple futures thinking. Pluralizing the future opens it up for envisioning and creating alternative futures to the status quo. The chapter concludes with a variety of methods used in multiple futures research approaches, including the four-step Swinburne methodology used in strategic foresight applications.

scholarly journals Grass and legume breeding matching the future needs of European grassland farming

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odd Arne Rognli ◽  
Luciano Pecetti ◽  
Mallikarjuna Rao Kovi ◽  
Paolo Annicchiarico
Keyword(s):  
Future Needs ◽  
Legume Breeding ◽  
The Future

Gang Homicide: The Road so Far and a Map for the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 108876792110438
Author(s):  
Jose Antonio Sanchez ◽  
Scott H. Decker ◽  
David C. Pyrooz
Keyword(s):  
Gang Membership ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
The Road ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Gang Life

Gang research has spanned nearly a century. In that time, we have learned that gang membership increases the chances of involvement in homicide as a victim or offender. The violence that embroils gang life, both instrumental and symbolic, often has consequences. In this paper we review the gang homicide literature covering topics such as definitional issues, available data, correlates and characteristics, and theoretical explanations. The review examines individual, group, and structural contexts for gang homicide. We conclude with a discussion of future needs in theory, data, and methods, to improve our understanding of gang homicide.

Strategic planning in London: the past and the future

Cities ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
George Nicholson ◽  
Leith Penny
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future
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