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Future Technologies and Their Applications
A one-day workshop at ILI 2013 facilitated by Brian Kelly and Tony Hirst
Twitter hashtag: #ili2013fut
Available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY licence)
D2: Predicting Technology Trends: Making The Case
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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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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• …
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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• Document biases and prejudices• Evidence base
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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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Questions
Any questions?