Futures Thinking In Asia And The Pacific

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9292621815

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Futures Thinking in Asia and the Pacific by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This handbook shows how the Asian Development Bank (ADB) piloted futures thinking and foresight to understand entry points to support transformational change and finance the future of Asia and the Pacific. Futures thinking and foresight is a powerful planning approach that can help the region meet economic, political, social, and environmental and climate change challenges. The publication compiles lessons from an ADB initiative to apply futures and foresight tools in Armenia, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste. Futures terminology is introduced as are specific tools such as emerging issues analysis, scenario planning, and backcasting. It also describes how futures and foresight tools were applied in the countries.

Author : Luke van der Laan,Janson Yap
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789812875976

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Foresight & Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region by Luke van der Laan,Janson Yap Pdf

This book explores the importance of strategy and how to make it work in an environment characterised by constant change. With a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region, anticipated to become the epicentre of global economic activity, it offers insights into the optimisation of economic potential and social cohesion enabled by leaders, which is crucial to the global economy and living standards. It highlights sound foresight, strategic thinking and innovation as the critical underpinnings of successful business and provides a comprehensive guide to combining practice and theory to ensure successful strategies, from formulation to execution. The book also builds on the concepts of change, the purpose of business, foresight, strategic thinking, strategic planning and innovation to present a holistic view of how these essential elements can be integrated in practice. Combined with a special contribution by Chaly Mah, the CEO of Deloitte Asia Pacific, the book carefully balances professional and academic insights to optimally benefit its readers and will be of interest to industry practitioners, researchers and students alike.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292621827

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Futures Thinking in Asia and the Pacific by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Futures thinking and foresight is a powerful planning approach that can help Asia and the Pacific countries meet economic, political, social, and environmental and climate change challenges. This publication shows how the Asian Development Bank (ADB) piloted this approach to understand entry points to support transformational change in the region. It compiles lessons from an ADB initiative to apply futures and foresight tools in Armenia, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste. Futures terminology is introduced as are specific tools such as emerging issues analysis, scenario planning, and backcasting. It also describes how futures and foresight tools were applied in the countries.

Author : Bart Édes
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789047646

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Learning from Tomorrow by Bart Édes Pdf

COVID-19 wrecked the plans and strategies of organizations everywhere, while injecting greater uncertainty into a world already undergoing disruptive social and technological change. Strategic Foresight can help us navigate through the recovery and beyond. Strategic Foresight is a systematic, intelligence-gathering, vision-building process that helps us manage uncertainty by discerning plausible alternative futures and applying the insights to present-day planning. It is ideally suited to a world upended by the pandemic and rapid transformations in the way we live, work and interact. Using approachable language and a multitude of examples, Learning from Tomorrow shows how Strategic Foresight broadens our perspectives, exposes opportunities and risks, and opens our minds to innovation in a post-pandemic world. It is essential reading for organizational leaders and those responsible for developing strategies, scenarios, policies and plans.

Author : Alexander L. Vuving
Publisher : Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780977324668

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Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: Thinking About Security in the Indo-Pacific by Alexander L. Vuving Pdf

Hindsight, Insight, Foresight is a tour d’horizon of security issues in the Indo-Pacific. Written by 20 current and former members of the faculty at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, its 21 chapters provide hindsight, insight, and foresight on numerous aspects of security in the region. This book will help readers to understand the big picture, grasp the changing faces, and comprehend the local dynamics of regional security.

Author : Édes Bart
Publisher : Changemakers Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1789047633

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Resetting Our Future: Learning from Tomorrow by Édes Bart Pdf

The pandemic wrecked our plans. Strategic Foresight will help us make better ones.

Author : Olin Wethington,Robert A. Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1619779854

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Shaping the Asia-Pacific Future by Olin Wethington,Robert A. Manning Pdf

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210045667

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The Future of Asian & Pacific Cities by United Nations Pdf

This report is an important resource to explore critical and emerging policy opportunities to realize urban sustainability for the Asian and Pacific region. It informs policies and actions from a sustainable development perspective, putting cities at the centre of development policy debates. It identifies future policy pathways for urban decision makers and stakeholders to reimagine the built and natural environments in Asian and Pacific cities and offers policy solutions across different types of cities to achieve the global development agendas. The solutions address four major development challenges – natural resource management, climate change, disaster risk and inequalities – through a focus on the key means of implementation to accelerate the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

Author : Akiko Sakamoto,Johnny Sung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9221323064

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Skills and the Future of Work by Akiko Sakamoto,Johnny Sung Pdf

Author : Arindam Banik,Munim Kumar Barai,Yasushi Suzuki
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811055912

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Towards A Common Future by Arindam Banik,Munim Kumar Barai,Yasushi Suzuki Pdf

This book focuses on the tremendous shift in both economic growth and development progress taking place towards the Asia-Pacific Region. Each of the countries in the region has various concerns and challenges for its sustainable development, a common goal most of them are trying to achieve at the moment. Interestingly, sustainable development in the region may be critical for achieving sustainable development at the global level as well. With a limited mandate, the book covers some specific developmental issues of ‘the hot spots’ of APR that are regarded to be contributing to their sustainable development. The book also looks at the formation and strengthening of some economic and financial initiatives with the potentials to affect growth and influence economic cooperation and integration of the countries in the region.

Author : Michael Powles
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015074273494

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Pacific Futures by Michael Powles Pdf

A timely consideration of the continuing challenges to the economic, political, social and cultural survival of the nations of the Pacific region. The book contains essays addressing issues of governance, human rights and custom, law reform, language and culture loss, the potential for a single currency, labour mobility and development assistance.

Author : Michael J. Green
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231542722

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By More Than Providence by Michael J. Green Pdf

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific. Where should the United States draw its defensive line, and how should it export democratic principles? In a history that spans the eighteenth century to the present, Michael J. Green follows the development of U.S. strategic thinking toward East Asia, identifying recurring themes in American statecraft that reflect the nation's political philosophy and material realities. Drawing on archives, interviews, and his own experience in the Pentagon and White House, Green finds one overarching concern driving U.S. policy toward East Asia: a fear that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the United States and prevent the ocean from becoming a conduit for the westward free flow of trade, values, and forward defense. By More Than Providence works through these problems from the perspective of history's major strategists and statesmen, from Thomas Jefferson to Alfred Thayer Mahan and Henry Kissinger. It records the fate of their ideas as they collided with the realities of the Far East and adds clarity to America's stakes in the region, especially when compared with those of Europe and the Middle East.

Author : Peter McCawley
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292577926

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Banking on the Future of Asia and the Pacific by Peter McCawley Pdf

This book is a history of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development bank established 50 years ago to serve Asia and the Pacific. Focusing on the region’s economic development, the evolution of the international development agenda, and the story of ADB itself, this book raises several key questions: What are the outstanding features of regional development to which ADB had to respond? How has the bank grown and evolved in changing circumstances? How did ADB’s successive leaders promote reforms while preserving continuity with the efforts of their predecessors? ADB has played an important role in the transformation of Asia and the Pacific the past 50 years. As ADB continues to evolve and adapt to the region’s changing development landscape, the experiences highlighted in this book can provide valuable insight on how best to serve Asia and the Pacific in the future.

Author : Chris Rowley,Justin Paul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000547931

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Trends in Asia Pacific Business and Management Research by Chris Rowley,Justin Paul Pdf

This book is based on the review of literature on different themes related to business and management in the Asia Pacific context. All seven chapters included in this book explore the past, present and future of business and research. They cover diverse topics in the Asia Pacific context ranging from different ways of thinking to innovation implementation and efficiency, responsible tourism, internal marketing to leadership. This book will be useful for researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Asia Pacific Business Review.

Author : Thomas G Mahnken,Dan Blumenthal
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804792820

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Strategy in Asia by Thomas G Mahnken,Dan Blumenthal Pdf

“Helps to articulate those pressing strategic questions necessary in formulating―and executing―American strategy in this critical part of the world.” ―Military Review Some of the United States’ greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region, with China’s and India’s rise and the persistence of militant Islam in parts of South and Central Asia, and the threat of nuclear proliferation continuing in fits and starts. If America is to meet these challenges comprehensively, strategists will have to learn more about Asia, and Asian scholars, policymakers, and analysts will need to understand better the enduring and timeless principles of strategy. Based on the premise therefore that the increasing strategic weight of the Asia-Pacific region warrants greater attention from both scholars and practitioners alike, Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security aims to marry the fields of strategic studies and Asian studies in order to help academics and practitioners to begin addressing these challenges. The book uses the lenses of geography, culture, and economics to examine in depth the strategic context that Asia presents to the major nations of the region—including the U.S. as a Pacific nation—and the strategic scenarios that may well play out in the region in the future. Specific attention is paid to Asia as a warfighting environment, and to the warfighting traditions and current postures of the major nations. “Opens windows into the key lenses of strategic studies namely, history, geography and politics, and secondarily, culture and economics.” —Asian Politics and Policy