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    optimize the process of forecasting prospective events is called strategic foresight. It is meant to enable a meaningful preparation for an uncertain future. However‚ to ensure an useful implementation and application of this management instrument it is necessary that a very accurate adaption to the company specific factors such as long-term strategy takes place beforehand (see Müller et al.‚ 2009‚ p. V). Strategic foresight is closely related to strategic management functions: they both have the

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    Done By: http://www.livetvee4u.blogspot.com/ Below is some additional information on the two poems written by Margaret Atwood and Kim Boey Cheng respectively‚ found on the internet: “The City Planners” by Margaret Atwood and “The Planners” by Boey Kim Cheng Many poets lament humanity’s soulless march toward technology and industrialization. Both “TCP” and “TP” reflect this sentiment. The poems are similar in ideas and tone‚ although Atwood’s is considerably more skilled and Cheng’s themes

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    Syed Adeel Ahmed Erp: 07570 Essay of FORESIGHT Life is all about making choices. Making the right choice at the right time is very important. However‚ no one knows whether the choice they made was the right one. Nevertheless‚ living with the choice you made and dealing with it‚ is more important than being right or wrong. Since I began my O-levels‚ I had always heard how “cool” it is to get into LUMS. Independence‚ away from home‚ doing whatever you want‚ enjoying life were just some of the things

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    Case: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner project began to develop in 2003 establishing as a main goal to innovate the concept of aircraft industry. This is the company’s most fuel-efficient airliner‚ being20% more fuel efficient that the 767‚ and first major airliner to use composite materials as the primary material in the construction of its airframe. An international team of top aerospace companies builds the airplane‚ led by Boeing at its Everett‚ Wash.‚ facility near Seattle and in North Charleston

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    the Ways in Which the City Planners & the Planners Powerfully Convey the Negative Impact of the City Planning Upon the Environment? In‚ both‚ City Planners and Planners‚ the concept of the redesigning of personality‚ past‚ and environment as a whole‚ is very much a theme – ‘so history is new again’ – and‚ indeed‚ thought of in a negative light. Through this idea‚ both Kim Cheng and Atwood explore whether nature will‚ conclusively‚ be a stronger force than the planners and‚ essentially‚ an artificial

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    Fear and foresight have a major impact in many of our life altering choices when provided with time to think the decision through. Before making life-altering decisions there is the foresight component‚ in which we make predictions about what the result of our decision will be‚ and the fear part of it‚ in which we make predictions about all of the negative results that could come from making a major decision. It is essentially weighing the risks involved as well as the potential rewards that could

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    In ‘The City Planners’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng‚ both poet uses the structure of the poem and language techniques to form the difference between the place itself and its identity. The uniformity between these two poems is the feelings of the poet expresses for this place. In ‘The City planners’ Atwood describes the place as “dry August sunlight”‚ this portrays an imagery of no lighting‚ dark and negative and also suggests to the readers that she do not like where

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    The Planners : By Boey Kim Cheng They plan. They build. All spaces are gridded‚ filled with permutations of possibilities. The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points linked by bridges all hang in the grace of mathematics. They build and will not stop. Even the sea draws back and the skies surrender. They erase the flaws‚ the blemishes of the past‚ knock off useless blocks with dental dexterity. All gaps are plugged with gleaming gold. The country

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    The Planners By Boey Kim Cheng The poem ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng‚ is remarkably very similar to the previous poem‚ ‘The City Planners’ in terms of the general theme and idea of the poem; perfection‚ uniformity‚ control over nature‚ and “Planners” who control and create everything. However it should be noted that there is a slight difference in theme of the two poems‚ the ‘Planners’ in this poem refer not to the actual city planners‚ but planners of a ‘higher power’‚ the planners of the

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    Flash Foresight Assignment Chapter One:  Start With Certainty – Use Hard Trends to see what’s coming. It’s so easy to focus on what we can’t do; what we can’t resolve‚ where we don’t see eye-to-eye‚ what we don’t know.  With this focus‚ coming to any kind of common understanding is just about impossible.  Where should we focus? We should focus because it allows us to see what we agree upon and what we can and do desire. What is Cyclic Change? Cyclic change is change that does not cycle back

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