Tech review

Tech review provides a checklist for assessing the future potential of a new technology.

Uses of the method

• Evaluating the future impact of new technologies
• Identification and filtering of emerging technologies to the vital few

Benefits

• Early understanding of, and preparation for, potentially disrupting technologies

Disadvantages

• Needs more extensive evaluation for adoption decisions and use of other thinking methods here

Steps to complete

• Complete the template and determine your most exciting idea and worst fear and response to the opportunity and/or threat
• Capture unique insight into new ways of seeing that can be utilized by the organization.
• State alternative hypotheses drawn with different assumptions and judgments.
• Consider what factors would likely change your mind through receipt of new information.
• Determine which factors could surprise and alter your judgment and the direction of the outcome.
• What conclusions can we draw from the exercise(s)?
  • How might the future be different?
  • How does A affect B?
  • What is likely to remain the same or change significantly?
  • What are the likely outcomes?
  • What and who will likely shape our future?
  • Where could we be most affected by change?
  • What might we do about it?
  • What don't we know that we need to know?
  • What should we do now, today?
  • Why do we care?
  • When should we aim to meet on this?

Finish by noting your next steps. Next steps could include a further round of iteration, a recommendation on how to get the answers or use of other research and methods such as 'Starburst' to create more vantage points on the issue.

Related methods
Use this method in conduction with the Technology rating in SCAN and PLAN > Rate.

Further reference
Technology assessment: Wikipedia
A Checklist: Assessing New Technologies: Trilogy Associates

Collaboration
This method and your response can be shared with other members or kept private using the 'Privacy' field and through the 'Tag', 'Report' and 'Forum' functionalities. Use 'Tag' and/or 'Report' to aggregate your analyzes, or add a 'Forum' to ask others where they agree/disagree and encourage them to make their own analysis from their unique vantage point.

Click the 'Invite tab to send invitations to other members or non-members (colleagues, external experts etc.) to ask for their input. You can whether or not you want anonymous responses.  These can be viewed and exported within the Responses tab.

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