Scenario planning is increasingly recognized as a useful tool for exploring change in socialecological systems on decadal to centennial time horizons. In environmental decision making, scenario development tends to include participatory methods for engaging stakeholders and is conducted at multiple scales. This paper presents insights from participatory scenario development in two separate mult...

T he current business environment is increasingly more complex, dynamic, and turbulent in both the macro and micro scales. This is especially evident when we consider key issues such as globalization, politics, technologies, social and economic matters, suppliers, clients, and product and services competition.1–3 This effect is particularly noticeable in the information and communication techno...

The article analyzes the importance of strategic marketing planning in management companies under conditions a competitive market. Strategic planning, which is considered an important tool, began to be used by as one main assistants decision-making and achieving set goals. Marketing can by-product business plan, makes contribution formation company's business, it provides for forecasting events...

In this paper we are concerned with innovation in the development of mobile applications. In particular, we address how we may come to think systematically about innovative aspects of mobile applications. We suggest that there is not enough support for this in the mobile systems literature and we hence suggest a framework that supports the thinking about the possible innovative features of a mo...

The paper reports on a case study concerning the e-/m-Learning implementation of theories and practices in school settings. Within the framework of the UNITE project, organisational, pedagogical, technical and infrastructural support was provided to a network of 14 European schools. This paper describes activities preceding and those undertaken through the launch of the UNITE system from the pe...

This paper presents a multi-year scenario-based methodology for transmission expansion planning (TEP) in order to enhance the available transfer capability (ATC). The ATC is an important factor for all players of electricity market who participate in power transaction activities and can support the competition and nondiscriminatory access to transmission lines among all market participants. The...

In the final chapter, Nicholson uses the scenario planning method to explore several possible futures for digital reference services. Using two dimensions – funding sources and automation four different scenarios are developed. Common needs across all four scenarios drive a discussion of both current and future research needs, and are used to position all components from this digital reference ...

in the current age, the importance of using knowledge as a tool for creativity and innovation at national level is considerable. furthermore, it would be taken into consideration as strategic need in the competition among different countries. hence in this paper, a new knowledge strategic management framework was developed with emphasizing on knowledge based innovation, upon up studying knowled...

This article aims at strategic vision to technology and suggests a strategic planning for this purpose. The main emphasis in this article is on strategic report compilation in the framework of strategic vision and covers issues such as identification of strategic planning dimensions and strategic vision levels, technology priority setting, environment monitoring, focus on costumer needs, method...