Several key benefits to the ultimate success of a robust Horizon Scanning system accrue from adopting all four modes of continuous scanning and a robust, collaborative framework.
- Users can find much more relevant material to their everyday work, thus encouraging greater usage of the Horizon Scanning system.
- Users can comment on and tag upcoming change creating a people-driven view of expected future change.
- Researchers can quickly see new serendipitous discoveries of previously unseen linkages between factors.
- A wider range of material can be sourced and time-lined to provide evidence of the issue's changing signal strength.
- Conditioned viewing is improved by the earlier addition of new factors, modifying existing issues, and the retirement of old ones as things change dynamically.
- It becomes far less likely that narrow searching in only one or two scanning modes misses major issues and innovations and therefore reduces potential for future criticism or threat.
- The system can be kept continually up-to-date and remain topical.
- The resulting knowledge base brings an integrated approach to Horizon Scanning and improves an organization's ability to offer a comprehensive futures intelligence service to its management.
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