Author: Anthony G. Williams
Publisher: Authors OnLine Ltd.
Keywords: war, foresight
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-11-19
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0755201566
ISBN-13: 9780755201563
What if - you went to sleep as usual in 2004 - and woke up in 1934? What if - you had vital knowledge about the forthcoming Second World War, and could prove that you came from the future? What could you do to affect British policy, strategy, tactics and equipment? How might the course of the conflict be changed? And what if there was another throwback from the future - and he was working for the enemy? The novel follows the story of these two ’throwbacks’ as they pit their wits against each other. A very different Second World War rages across Europe, the Mediterran
Author: Alfred Marcus
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: scenarios, new, foresight, strategic
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2009-06-15
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0230611729
ISBN-13: 9780230611726
Scenario planning is the principles, methods, and techniques for looking forward into the future and trying to anticipate and influence what is to come next. This book provides students and line managers in organizations with the means to create better scenarios and to use them to create winning business strategies. The purpose is to shed new light on scenarios and scenario-like thinking in organizations for managers at every level within a company. The book covers scenarios such as: economic outlooks; political environments; acquisitions; downsizing, and more.
Author: The Architectural League of New York
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: foresight, architects
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2010-04-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1568988877
ISBN-13: 9781568988870
Foresight is the eleventh in an annual series of publications that features the best young practicing architects as selected by the Architectural League of New York in their annual Young Architects competition. This year’s theme, "Foresight," refers to an ability to survey, research, and engage the present toward particular, desired outcomes in the future. Our lives are inundated by forecasts about the world climate, the economy, sociopolitical trends, the housing market s rise and fall, and all kinds of bubbles bursting. Everyone has become an expert in predicting the future, just as th
Author: Edna F. Einsiedel
Publisher: UBC Press
Keywords: foresight, hindsight, technologies, emerging
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0774815493
ISBN-13: 9780774815499
Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse cultures but share common social and political challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness. This collection addresses the origins of mental health and social problems and the emergence of culturally responsive approaches to services and health promotion. Healing Traditions is not a handbook of practice but a resource for thinking critically about current issues in the mental health of indigenous peoples. The book is divided into four sections: an overview of the mental health of indigenous peoples; origins and represe
Author: Hugh Courtney
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: world, uncertain, strategy, crafting, foresight
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1578512662
ISBN-13: 9781578512669
Authors:Liam Fahey, Robert M. Randall,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: scenarios, foresight, competitive, future, learning
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1997-10
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0471303526
ISBN-13: 9780471303527
"Scenarios are now a part of every successful manager’s toolkit. This book is the first comprehensive guide to the latest developments in scenario thinking written by today’s leading practitioners in the field." —Napier Collyns, a pioneer of scenario planning at Dutch/Shell now Managing Director, Gloal Business Network (GBN) "In twenty years of helping companies create and plan for their futures, I have never come across a book that dealt with the use of scenario-based planning as comprehensively as this one." —David Kelley CEO, IDEO Product Development the creators of the Apple Mouse
Author: Peter Caram
Publisher: Janus Publishing Company
Keywords: foresight, warning, bombing, center, trade, world
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 185756586X
ISBN-13: 9781857565867
The World Trade Center was both a great engineering feat and a potent symbol. This careful analysis asserts that it was also a security hazard for almost all of its existence. The author, until recently a detective sergeant and antiterrorist officer at the World Trade Center with experience in airport security, voices harsh criticisms of the security lapses that allowed the 1993 bombing to take place, a precursor and unheeded warning of the 2001 disaster. Completed before this cataclysmic event, this book gives an insider ’s perspective on Port Authority attitudes and on the mismanagemen
