Scan Monthly No. 058December 2007 |
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Annual Review/Preview of Important Forces for Change in the Business Environment
This December 2007 issue of Scan Monthly provides a quick review of several topics of strategic concern that may not yet figure prominently on the radar screen of planners in large companies.
- New, open models of innovation are producing noteworthy results but may be difficult for companies to tap.
- Global finance and investment models are shifting as new players threaten traditional models.
- The remarkable market success of the Wii video-game controller has created a flurry of activity in the world of interfaces as developers try to emulate the intuitive and natural interaction that consumers appreciate when using the Wii controller.
- Addressing climate-change issues is proving both more urgent and more difficult than anyone expected: The climate is changing faster than the models predicted, and the complexity of the climate systems is apparently beyond the capabilities of government and society to address.
- Health-care models are evolving to accommodate the forces of automation, decentralization, and personalization.
- Emotions will play an increasingly important role in helping companies design new products and services.
- Emerging frontiers in resource discovery and exploration will play a significant role in meeting growing global demand for raw materials and energy, achieving environmental sustainability in industrial processes, and opening up new areas of scientific inquiry.
- The emergence of mixed realities such as mirror worlds, mashups, and virtual worlds on the Internet portends a major evolutionary shift in the Internets structure and interface.
- In the life sciences, the pace and direction of research and development in neuroscience, stem cells, and genomics are such that we appear to be fast approaching an inflection point that will lead in new directions in biological knowledge, create new research areas of study, and provide new platforms that foster commercialization opportunities through product-development applications.
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