IEEE Environmental Scan: 2005

The IEEE Environmental Scan is a tool to help IEEE explore multiple futures and consider several plausible future scenarios.

Valuable Findings for:

entire IEEE

Background

Competition – some obvious, and some not so obvious – continues to increase.
Specialized technical information is becoming more widely available in the global marketplace.
New technologies show potential to change the industry and the profession.
All of this puts pressure on IEEE and creates an opportunity to adapt to the changing world.
This scan covers a broad range of economic, global, political, technological and social issues and trends.
It has information from a variety of sources, such as literature reviews, surveys, industry experts, focus groups, member panels, and so on.
It contains the ideas of some leading-edge thinkers from both inside and outside the industry and profession.

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