Slides for a 1-day workshop on "Future Technologies and Their Applications" facilitated by Brian Kelly and Tony Hirst at the ILI 2013 conference on Monday 14 October 2013. See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/ili-2013-workshop/ See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/ili-2013-workshop/ See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/ili-2013-workshop/

1. 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)
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D2: Predicting Technology
Trends:
Making The Case

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Questions
Any questions?
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