TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garland,Eric
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Future, inc: how businesses can anticipate and profit from what's next 
AV  - HD30.27 .G37 2007eb
U1  - 658.4/01 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - AMACOM
KW  - Business forecasting
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Today's chaos, tomorrow's opportunity -- pt. 1. Tools and techniques. Futurism: the antidote to chaos -- Systems thinking: a superhighway to change -- Analyzing trends: real change vs. media hype -- Into the future: making judgments, evaluating forecasts -- Strategic implications: what the future means to you -- Scenario generation: drawing a picture of the future -- Communicating the future--even to the skeptical -- pt. 2. Drivers of the future. Aging: preparing for a new grey world -- Information technology: falling in price, increasing in power -- Health care: new gadgets vs. following doctors' orders -- Biotechnoogy: scratching the surface of the secrets of life -- Energy: getting more out of less -- Nanotechnologies: smaller is better -- Media and communications: six billion channels for six billion people -- Ecology and sustainability: growth can be good -- Epilogue: Where do we go from here?; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10196204
ER  -