Development Trends

Author : Ulf Pillkahn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3895786292
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Trends and Scenarios as Tools for Strategy Development written by Ulf Pillkahn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is my enterprise really prepared for future business? What can I do to become more competitive? Ulf Pillkahn's book is directed at all of those seeking answers to these questions: executives in strategic positions, business analysts, consultants, trend scouts, marketing and product managers and research engineers. The book presents the two most powerful tools for future planning: environmental analysis, based on the use of trends, as well as the development of visions of the future through the use of scenarios. While scenarios are generally regarded as a classical management tool, it is expected that the importance of trends will gain tremendously in the coming years. Pillkahn demonstrates how to build robust strategies by aligning the results of environmental and enterprise scenarios, thereby offering entirely new insights. "Using Trends and Scenarios as Tools for Strategy Development" convincingly illustrates why efficient observation of the environment of an enterprise is an absolutely essential factor for strategy development, and why strategy development only works if it is institutionalized as a permanent enterprise process. It also addresses the issue of what information is needed to keep both processes running. The book further describes how trends can be categorized, and offers advice on how to glean the essential information from the vast variety of trends. Information is provided on how scenarios are used as a holistic instrument for creating visions and pictures of the future, and how the results of trend research and scenario techniques find their way into entrepreneurial strategy development. An optimized strategy development process is also outlined. Practical examples and real-life pictures of the future round off Pillkahn's insightful discussion of future business planning.

Author : Peter L. Benson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461514592
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trends in Youth Development written by Peter L. Benson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOVING THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT MESSAGE: TURNING A VAGUE IDEA INTO A MORAL IMPERATIVE Peter L. Benson and Karen Pittman THE CONTAGION OF AN IDEA In the past fifteen years, countless programs, agencies, funding initiatives, profes sionals, and volunteers have embraced the term "youth development. " Linked more by shared passion than by formal membership or credentials, these people and places have contributed to a wave of energy and activity not unlike that of a social movement, with a multitude of people "on the ground" connecting to a set of ideas that give sustenance, support, and value to increasingly innovative efforts to build competent, successful, and healthy youth. There are several particularly interesting dimensions to this movement. First, the youth development idea has the potential to draw people and organizations to gether across many sectors. Conferences and initiatives using youth development language attract increasingly eclectic audiences, bringing together national youth organizations, schools, city, county, and state agencies, police and juvenile jus tice workers, clergy, and committed citizens. Perhaps embedded in the youth de velopment idea is a philosophy or a "way" that has created an intellectual and/or spiritual home for actors across many settings. However this happens, it is clear that one of the powerful social consequences of the youth development idea is a connecting of the dots-the weaving within and across city, county, state, and of a tapestry of new relationships.

Author : Prakash Srinivasan Timiri Shanmugam
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128209615
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trends in Development of Medical Devices written by Prakash Srinivasan Timiri Shanmugam and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-01-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends in Development of Medical Devices covers the basics of medical devices and their development, regulations and toxicological effects, risk assessment and mitigation. It also discusses the maintenance of a medical device portfolio during product lifecycle. This book provides up-to-date information and knowledge on how to understand the position and benefits of new introduced medical devices for improving healthcare. Researchers and industry professionals from the fields of medical devices, surgery, medical toxicology, pharmacy and medical devices manufacture will find this book useful. The book's editors and contributors form a global, interdisciplinary base of knowledge which they bring to this book. Provides a roadmap to medical devices development and the integration of manufacturing steps to improve workflows Helps engineers in medical devices industries to anticipate the special requirements of this field with relation to biocompatibility, sterilization methods, government regulations Presents new strategies that readers can use to take advantage of rapid prototyping technologies, such as 3D printing, to reduce imperfections in production and develop products that enable completely new treatment possibilities

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing and Urban Development Trends written by and published by . This book was released on 1980-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing and Urban Development Trends written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Annual data" published as a separate issue, May 1965-

Author : Irakli Kovzanadze
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595524494
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic and Banking System Development Trends and Prospects for Countries in Transition written by Irakli Kovzanadze and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transition countries have become one of the most dynamic segments of the global economy in recent years. With economic growth rates at considerably higher percentages than those of the world economy, these countries are a strong and vital element of global stability. Professor Irakli Kovzanadze, a doctor of economic sciences, provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic factors of development in transition countries with regard to history and geopolitics. He specifically analyzes the stages, legalities, and particulars of economic and banking system progress and considers the impact of financial globalization on these countries during a transition-to-market economy. Kovzanadze's study delves into the progress and problems relating to integration of Central and Eastern European countries into the European Union and includes detailed scrutiny of the trends and prospects of economic and banking system development in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic region, and former Soviet Union countries with particular emphasis on economic growth in Georgia. Kovzanadze's careful examination of the dramatic events that have occurred in transition countries during the last few years will promote further discussion within the banking, macroeconomics, and geopolitical communities on the innovative ways to reform an economy in countries in the midst of change.

Author : Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Reforms and Social Development Trends in Latin America written by Inter-American Development Bank and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428960953
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hydrologic Trends Associated with Urban Development for Selected Streams in the Puget Sound Basin, Western Washington Hydrologic Trends Associated with Urban Development for Selected Streams in the Puget Sound written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ibraiz Tarique
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0133138909
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Trends in Corporate Training and Development written by Ibraiz Tarique and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand, anticipate, master, and leverage the seven powerful trends that are transforming workplace training and development! In Seven Trends in Corporate Training and Development, pioneering innovator Ibraiz Tarique offers actionable thought leadership on all seven trends, helping you address the new challenges they present, and leverage new opportunities they offer. Tarique focuses on strategic directions for training and development, while offering tangible and specific recommendations for addressing and anticipating all seven trends. His example-rich, best-practice coverage includes: ¿ How and why the role of training and development professionals is changing ¿ Impacts ranging from globalization and demographics to hybrid career paths ¿ What future learning systems will look like ¿ Leveraging emerging technologies and new approaches to collaboration ¿ Measuring training ROI ¿ Using training to develop new sources of talent ¿ Helping employees discern fact from opinion ¿ Applying powerful new insights into how adults learn ¿ Teaching agility ¿ Making person-centered learning work ¿ Getting more value from informal learning ¿ Using stretch assignments to strengthen critical thinking ¿ Leveraging "new experts" within and beyond your organization For all HR leaders and specialists with direct or indirect responsibility for organizational learning, including Directors of Learning and Development, Directors of Talent Management, Chief Learning Officers, HR Training Managers, and trainers

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
ISBN 13 : 9781646794973
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.