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Featured Synopsis 127 Outline July 2020

Author: Martin Schwirn

June 2020's Scan™ in the Time of Covid-19 looked at a set of 18 issues and implications resulting from the coronavirus-disease-2019 (covid-19) pandemic and its effects. This month, Scan's A Further Look at Covid-19's Impact presents another six Signals of Change about how the pandemic will affect societies and economies going forward.

Featured Scan Framework

The partial framework presented here arranges this month's featured Signals of Change on a scale of urgency (short to long term), and reflects the degree of uncertainty (low to high) surrounding the topic. Each item's color highlights which aspect of decision-making the topic is most likely to affect. Subscribing clients of Scan also have acess to the complete Strategic Synopsis (with the full framework) and this month's Patterns.

Scan Framework Title and Uncertainty Scale An image displaying the overall figure title, "Scan Framework", and below the title, a horizontal line graphic that spans most of the width of the content column, with arrowheads on both left and right ends of the line. The words "Low Uncertainty" appear towards the left end of the line; the words "High Uncertainty" appear towards the right end of the line. Scan Framework LowUncertainty HighUncertainty Scan Framework Scale of Short Term vs Long Term, and Color Key An image displaying a horizontal line spanning the width of the column content, with the words "Short Term" on the left end of the line, the word "Midterm" in the middle of the line, and the words "Long Term" at the right end of the line. Below the line is a graphical color key corresponding to the colors of the boxes containing text in the HTML code above. Each color signifies a broad area of application for the given topic. Blue indicates "Infrastructure"; Green indicates "Organization"; Yellow indicates "Talent"; Orange indicates "Creation"; and Red indicates "Marketing". Short TermMidtermLong Term Infrastructure: Support, Resources, Market Structure, Legislation Organization: Strategy, Operations, Company Structure Talent: Human Resources, Company Culture, Collaboration Creation: Design, R&D, Materials, Enabling Technologies Marketing: Market Research, Advertising, Distribution, Pricing

Featured Signals of Change

SoC1167 — The Pandemic and Marketing Ploys

Companies are engaging in tested, novel, and questionable marketing efforts to adjust to or even leverage the pandemic.

SoC1168 — Pandemic Emergency Measures

The covid-19 pandemic has prompted governments around the world to implement a variety of emergency measures.

SoC1169 — Urban Features for Future Pandemics

City planners and managers will have disease outbreaks and pandemics in mind as they do their jobs going forward.

SoC1170 — Tech Messiahs?

Rising to the challenge of the day could help propel the tech giants into new opportunities and roles in society.

SoC1171 — Covid-19 and Civil Liberties

Policy makers' attempting to counter or take advantage of the pandemic's social and health threats has resulted in a reconsideration of civil liberties.

SoC1172 — Contemplating Scenarios: Dynamics Count

Only customized scenario-planning efforts can help decision makers move from gaining awareness of a changing world to preparing for such a world.