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Future Technologies and Their Applications

A one-day workshop at ILI 2013 facilitated by Brian Kelly and Tony Hirst

Twitter hashtag: #ili2013fut

Available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY licence)

D2: Predicting Technology Trends: Making The Case

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Important to You – But What Are The Next Steps?

You have identified technologies / technology-related areas which you feel will be important in your area of work.

Next steps: • Identify the implications of the

technologies• Assess the associated risks• Make a case to senior management for

further related work

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A Planning Template (1)

From the Hyperlinked Library MOOC

Planning template used in assignment 2: • Goals/Objectives for the technology • Action Brief Statement:

Convince ______ that by _______ they will ________ which will ________ because _______.

• Mission, Guidelines & Policy• Funding considerations • Evaluation• …

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A Planning Template (2)

The Need to Explicitly Address Risks

From “Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Social Web” by Kelly & Oppenheim:

• Summarise risks• Summary risks of not adopting technology• Summarise strategies for minimising (or

accepting) risks• Document biases and prejudices• Evidence base

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Group Exercise

You have an opportunity make a case to a senior management need which has funding to explore innovative technologies.

In your groups:• Select one of the technologies identified

previously• Prepare a case for funding based on the

templates• Give a presentation of < 5 minutes

Note only one submission can be funded!

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Questions

Any questions?