Slides on "Let's Predict the Future: Making the Case" for a workshop session on "Predicting the Future" held on 3 June 2014 at the SAOIM 2014 conference in Pretoria, South Africa and facilitated by Brian Kelly, Cetis. See https://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/saoim-2014-lets-predict-the-future-workshop/

1. 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) 1
D2: Predicting the Future:
Making The Case
(Group Exercise)

2. 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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3. 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
• …
3 Acknowledgements to Michael Stephens and Kyle Jones

4. 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
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Can you innovate without taking risks?

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

6. Questions
Any questions?
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