This view fits nicely to the Kondratieff long waves I use as a model for future scenarios.
Both companies are focusing on future scenarios about how we will get things done in 2012 and beyond.
By helping employees develop future scenarios the leaders at Google identify far better solutions than the linear, historical planning approaches.
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Of course, these patterns are rarely exactly the same, but through these examples, you should be well-prepared for most future scenarios.
Frankly, it is impossible to predict these future scenarios with any certainty.
But most industry veterans are unable to even consider these options, because they see no way to get to one of those future scenarios from today.
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Fundamentally, the high volatility means investors are discounting extreme future scenarios and baking that analysis into their daily trading activity and their view of security prices.
Scientists have conducted many studies in the lab since showing that young, healthy adults are much better at imagining future scenarios than older people whose memories have deteriorated.
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Choosing stocks from both sectors I think enables a portfolio to deliver good returns in a wider variety of future scenarios that if you invested solely in energy or telecom stocks.
Develop future scenarios that define the direction of HP.
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Keeping the company pushing forward by developing future scenarios, and creating solutions that fulfill them, rather than trying to defend historical positions in markets that are find themselves the victim of lower profits from market shifts.
Anyway, as long as the Davos Divas and the Frequent Flier Anarchists are having their say, I might as well be presumptuous enough to suggest, without any axe to grind, some real-life future Net scenarios for the rest of us.
The best way to do that is to anticipate the marketing impact of potential future Black Swan scenarios.
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Drought-related emergencies, particularly in the Horn of Africa and Sahel regions, were unlikely to go away in the future, projected scenarios showed.
Scenarios for future climate change are almost always developed using powerful three-dimensional models of the earth and its atmosphere.
In the near-future, these three scenarios could become reality.
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You are certainly right to be looking at the longer-term future though, as across all the scenarios, it is clear that to be successful in the future, organizations need to do more than just embrace change, they need to anticipate and drive it.
This future seemed to have several scenarios and I was going to have to make some choices.
Understanding the science behind climate change and mitigating its effects are critical for avoiding unmanageable scenarios in the future.
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To create value businesses must generate and fulfull scenarios about the future.
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They agreed that there is an urgent need for an international framework of cooperation for both ocean research and governance, which will define the conditions for scientist to prepare accurate scenarios for the future.
Noting that current governance remains fragmented along both sectoral and geographical lines that ignore the interconnectivity and scale of ocean issues, they recognized that there is an urgent need for an international framework of cooperation for both ocean research and governance, which will define the conditions for scientist to prepare accurate scenarios for the future.
Some of the speakers painted various scenarios of what the future of energy policy will look like depending on which party takes office.
Possible worrisome scenarios for Colombia's future.
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Mr Mateus, the professor at the New University of Lisbon, recently set out three scenarios for Portugal's economic future.
The BCC tested five scenarios for the UK's future relationship with the EU. Respondents were asked to give their view on the potential impact of each scenario on Britain's business and economic prospects.
Gates said at the time that the F-22 was not relevant to counterinsurgency campaigns in Southwest Asia or to the most likely warfighting scenarios the joint force would face in the future.
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The sad reality is that both scenarios are grave and only time will tell what the future holds for Peru.
The idea is to imagine the future, specifically as relates to technology and how people use it, create plausible scenarios that might actually come about as technology develops, and then figure out how to make them happen.
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