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Program Overview

Finding the Trends that Matter: Get Your Environmental Scan On

 

A. Overview of Environmental Scanning

  1. Introductions
  2. Every Librarian a trendspotter
  3. Examples of trendspotter

 

B. Environmental Scanning

  1. What it is
  2. Examples OCLC Pattern Recognition Report
  3. Horizon Report
  4. How to start and conduct and environmental scan

 

C. SWOT Analysis for your library

  1. What is a SWOT analysis?
  2. Real life examples

 

D. Current Trends in Business and Economics

  1. Why should we be concerned with this?
  2. What is design thinking?

 

E. Techniques the Futurists use

  1. Be a Tsunami Scout
  2. Phone call to a futurist
  3. Resources for you

 

F. Question and Answer session

 

 

 

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