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Author: Luke Georghiou
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2008-03-31
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1781008760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCross-cutting analytical chapters explore the emergence and positioning of foresight, approaches and methods, organisational issues, policy transfer and evaluation.
Author: Paul Warren
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-30
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780470758663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn all about the major trends and future advancements in ICT! ICT Futures provides an insightful introduction to the major technology trends in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and to the economic, commercial and societal environment which is shaping them. The experienced author-team, consisting of experts from both industry and academia, addresses: The interaction between people and technology - how ICT affects every day social practices; the rise of social computing; how the way we interact with information and the devices we use are changing; and how trust can be assured over the Internet. The underlying ICT infrastructure - the semantic web and the semantic intranet; the real-time service-oriented infrastructure; the future optical network; self-managing networks and agents; P2P technologies; pervasiveness; mobility and wireless technology; and how all this infrastructure can be made secure. ICT technology and how it is affecting industries as diverse as health, finance, retail and law. The book covers a vast wealth of material, with a strong focus upon the impending changes to the way ICT operates.This reference is a valuable tool for people in managerial roles, CIOs, CTOs, business and technology strategists, and students undertaking technology MBAs, or technology modules in general MBAs. Professionals working in ICT will also find this book valuable.
Author: Marco Taisch
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1439828326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManufacturing plays a vital role in European economy and society, and is expected to continue as a major generator of wealth in the foreseeable future. A competitive manufacturing industry is essential for the prosperity of Europe, especially in the face of accelerating deindustrialisation. This book provides a broad vision of the future of manufac
Author: Cristiano Cagnin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-07-29
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 3540688110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe application of foresight to address the challenges of uncertainty and rapid change has grown dramatically in the past decade. In that period, the techniques have been greatly refined and the scope has been broadened to encompass future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) and more recently, the concept and practice of strategic intelligence. FTA addresses directly the longer-term future through the active and continuous development of visions, and pathways to realise these visions. It is increasingly seen as a valuable management and policy tool complementing, and extending further into the future, classical strategy, planning, and decision-making approaches. This book charts the development of FTA and provides the first coherent description and analysis of its practical application and impact in the worlds of business, government, education and research in both advanced and developing countries. It draws on papers addressing the application of FTA around the globe which were presented at the Second International Seville Seminar in September 2006. The insights and practical experience will be invaluable for company managers, government ministers and officials, researchers and academics with responsibilities for effective planning and decision-making in an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable world.
Author: Toni Ahlqvist
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9789513870416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nordic ICT Foresight project was launched in May 2005 with research partners VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FOI (Sweden), SINTEF (Norway) and DTI (Denmark). The aim of the project was to contribute to the strategic intelligence of the Nordic knowledge region so that the full potential of information and communication technology can be exploited to increase the welfare in the Nordic countries. The focal areas of the ICT applications in this study were experience economy, health, production economy and security. In the research process there were five research phases: 1) desktop survey, 2) SWOT analysis, 3) scenario and vision workshop, 4) roadmapping workshop and 5) action workshop. The research phases (3, 4 and 5) were carried out as focused workshops that applied different methods. Publication presents scenarios, roadmaps and action path analyses of the potential developments of ICTs on the Nordic level. Policy recommendations were formulated on the basis of the research process. Policy recommendations were divided into implementation strategies, i.e. actions that should be proactively pushed through on the Nordic level, and adaptive strategies, i.e. actions that are more reactive in the face of global developments.
Author: Maria Giaoutzi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-11-28
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1461452155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForesight is an area within Futures Studies that focuses on critical thinking concerning long term developments, whether within the public sector or in industry and management, and is something of a sub-section of complexity and network science. This book examines developments in foresight methodologies and relates in its greater part to the work done in the context of the COSTA22 network of the EU on Foresight Methodologies. Foresight is a professional practice that supports significant decisions, and as such it needs to be more assured of its claims to knowledge (methodology). Foresight is practiced across many domains and is not the preserve of specialized ‘futurists’, or indeed of foresight specialists. However, the disciplines of foresight are not well articulated or disseminated across domains, leading to re-inventions and practice that does not make best use of experience in other domains. The methodological development of foresight is an important task that aims at strengthening the pool of the tools available for application, thereby empowering the actors involved in foresight practice. Elaborating further on methodological issues, such as those presented in the present book, enables the actors involved in foresight to begin to critique current practice from this perspective and, thirdly, to begin to design foresight practice. The present trends towards methodological concerns indicates a move from ‘given’ expert-predicted futures to one in which futures are nurtured through a dialogue among “stakeholders.” The book has four parts, each elaborating on a set of aspects of foresight methodologies. After an introductory section, Part II considers theorizing about foresight methodologies. Part III covers system content issues, and Part IV presents foresight tools and approaches.
Author: Antonino Mazzeo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-07-17
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0387097112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Industry Oriented Conferences held at IFIP 20th World Computer Congress in September 2008. The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.
Author: Mikael Collan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 3030461033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material presented allows the reader to develop a holistic picture of where the manufacturing industry and the parts of the society that depend on it may be going in the future. Manufacturing 4.0 is not only a technical change, nor is it a purely technically driven change, but it is a societal change that has the potential to disrupt the way societies are constructed both in the positive and in the negative. This book will be of interest to scholars researching manufacturing, technological innovation, innovation management and industry 4.0.
Author: Heinrich Arnold
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-12-10
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 3540888276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRapid application of new technologies and highly leveraged innovation processes are key for the success of companies and organizations in dynamic markets. Based on the experiences of one of the industry’s most modern innovation centers this book provides an insight into the tools and methods used to align customer requirements, competitive challenges and technological development. Both, scientists and practitioners, will benefit from the lessons learned and presented in this volume.
Author: Vinu Das
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-01-02
Total Pages: 900
ISBN-13: 364225733X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Information Technology, CIIT 2011, held in Pune, India, in November 2011. The 58 revised full papers, 67 revised short papers, and 32 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 483 initial submissions. The papers are contributed by innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of computer science, information technology, computational engineering, mobile communication and security and offer a stage to a common forum, where a constructive dialog on theoretical concepts, practical ideas and results of the state of the art can be developed.
