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D: We've Predicted the Future! So What?

Let’s Predict the Future!

A half-day workshop at the SAOIM 2014 conference held on Tuesday 3 June 2014 facilitated by Brian Kelly, Cetis

Slides available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY licence)

D2: Predicting the Future: Making The Case(Group Exercise)

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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• …

Acknowledgements to Michael Stephens and Kyle Jones

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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• Evidence base• Document biases and prejudices

Can you innovate without taking risks?

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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!

Example of use of this methodology available on post on “Assignment 2: Emerging Technology Planning” on Hyperlinked Library MOOC

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Questions

Any questions?