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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- Scenario planning for libraries
- Perception matters more than reality
- Value that is not valued is not valuable
- Patrons do not need librarians as much
- The cool eye of the future
- The rear vision view
- The future is not linear
- Planning is an essential element of success
- Choices
- Make change your friend
- Receiving different messages
- Path tunnel gets narrower
- What is scenario planning?
- Imagination and stories
- Future files
- Extinction summary
- Development of imagination
- Principles of disruption
- Disrupted models
- At the crossroads...
- Principle: Focus on the user
- User focus
- Principle: Strengths?
- Digital and physical libraries
- Dwell on what we think that we are good at
- Predictions
- Other dimensions
- Inevitability?
- Future focus and Strategic thinking
- Service organisations challenges
- Creating a preferred scenario
- Publishing cycle
- Creating a scenario
- Creating a scenario - outsourcing example
- Avoid group thinking
- Re-conceptualising: Search
- Re-conceptualising: Content
- Re-conceptualising: Organisations
- Re-conceptualising: Skill
- Does not need to be spanking new!
- Plan not for tomorrow
- Imagine your library's future
- Do not dismiss opportunities
- Information exponentials
- Thank you
Reflective Questions
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To what extent are libraries valuable? What makes them valuable? Can that value be expressed in monetary terms?
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How would you make best use of both strategic planning and scenario planning?
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What is ‘disruption’ can/should it always be avoided?
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How useful is ‘Risk is not a failure’ as a guiding principle?
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To what extent has ‘the publishing cycle’ survived disruption?
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Is ‘the customer is always right’ a good principle in library planning?
Topics Covered
- Pressure for change in libraries globally
- Analysis of the environment of the digital information world
- Disruptive forces on technology
- Digital information
- Scenario planning
- Application of scenario planning to libraries and publishing environments
- Development of scenarios
- Future options
Talk Citation
O'Connor, S. (2012, March 29). Scenario planning for libraries [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bm/2290/.Export Citation (RIS)
