Trends and Visions

For those involved in technological innovations and policy making, it is important to be aware of potential future outcomes and to understand their consequences. These services address the issues associated with new technologies: what the key technologies might be; how they could be used; and the consequential threats and opportunities.

Can we really know what the technologies of the future will be? No, not with 100 percent certainty. However, we can make some pretty good predictions using techniques which include, but are not limited to, the following:

• For the short to medium-term:
  • Look at current technological developments
  • Compare against similar types of innovation
  • Draw lessons from recent history
  • Assess the current climate (social, economic and environmental)
  • SWOT analysis and market impact
• For the long-term:
  • Look at current scientific research and its discoveries
  • Extensive creativity projection
  • Determine potential pathways
  • Analyse the outcomes, interactions and impacts of each pathway
  • Assess the projected climate
  • Add perturbations for sensitivity testing
  • SWOT analysis and market impact
  • Rate outcomes by probability

Acro Logic can use its resources and in-house tools to conduct such investigations, report on key issues, and identify new opportunities. Such information can also be valuable to developers and investors of near-term technologies by helping them to avoid investments in technologies which will be rapidly superseded or fail in the market place.

If you had a crystal ball which predicted your future, you would probably welcome the good predictions and avoid the scenarios that led to bad outcomes. Similarly, with predicted future scenarios for technology we can influence the decisions we make today in terms of our policies, research and technological development.

Acro Logic can help the policy makers in government, education and business to investigate key issues and make informed decisions.

If you want to learn how to develop these skills for yourself then Acro Logic can help you by providing:

• Traditional training workshops
• Online training workshops
• Traditional and online coaching and support

Acro Logic even provides support to trainers and educational bodies.