COMM 205 - Appendix D

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering trends analysis methods, global demographic shifts, workforce transformations, and emerging future technologies from Appendix D of Business Driven Information Systems.

Trend Analysis

The examination of a trend to identify its nature, causes, speed of development, and potential impacts.

Trend Monitoring

The practice of carefully monitoring, watching, and reporting trends viewed as particularly important in a specific community, industry, or sector to key decision-makers.

Trend Projection

The technique of plotting a trend when numerical data is available to display changes through time and into the future.

Computer Simulation

A method where complex systems are modeled using mathematical equations, allowing different scenarios to be run against the model to perform "what if" analysis.

Historical Analysis

The study of historical events to anticipate the outcome of current developments.

Lead Time (Beat the Competition)

The competitive advantage gained by seeing what is coming before others to establish a foothold in a new market.

Strategic Goal Balancing

Thinking about the future as an antidote to a "profit-now, worry-later" mentality that can lead to trouble in the long term.

Developed Countries Fertility Trend

A trend where fertility rates in developed and industrialized countries are expected to decrease below population replacement levels, leading to significant declines in population.

Global Agricultural Demand Trend

The projection that global agriculture will be required to supply as much food over the next $40$ years as has been produced during all of human history.

Palestinian Territory Population Growth Projection

The country or territory expected to experience the largest population increase at $217\%$.

U.S. Life Expectancy Trend

The demographic trend where, on average, each generation in the United States lives $3$ years longer than the previous generation.

Japan Life Expectancy (Born 1995–2020)

The life expectancy of individuals born between $1995$ and $2020$ in Japan, reaching $80.5$ years compared to $63.9$ years for those born between $1950$ and $1955$.

Knowledge Worker

A professional who works primarily with information; they constitute $90\%$ of American management personnel, are generally higher paid, and their proliferation increases overall prosperity.

Organizational Management Levels Trend (1990 to 2020)

The organizational shift where a typical large organization in $2020$ has fewer than half the management levels and about one-third the number of managers of its counterpart in $1990$.

Integrated Global Economy Business Impacts

The rise in foreign language training and cultural employee incentives, lower operating costs via ebusiness and the Internet, and the ability of small companies to compete with worldwide giants with relatively little investment.

Rate of Medical Knowledge Growth

The expansion rate of medical knowledge, which is doubling every $8$ years.

College Knowledge Obsolescence Rate

The finding that $50\%$ of what students learn in their first year of college is obsolete, revised, or taken for granted by their final year.

Year 2050 Technical Knowledge Projection

The projection that all of today's technical knowledge will represent only $1\%$ of the knowledge available in $2050$.

Workplace Time Commitment Trend

The condition where U.S. workers spend $10\%$ more time on the job than they did a decade ago, increasing the demand for time-saving products and services.

The Digital Mesh

An emerging technology category encompassing the Device Mesh, Ambient User Experience, and 3D Printing Materials.

The Device Mesh

A component of the Digital Mesh consisting of technologies including Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.

Ambient User Experience

A technology trend within the Digital Mesh that includes the Ambient Digital Experience.

3D Printing Materials (Future Technologies)

A future technology category within the Digital Mesh that includes Biological 3D Printing.

Smart Machines

A technological domain shaping the future that encompasses Information of Everything (IoT, IoE), Advanced Machine Learning, and Autonomous Agents and Things.

Autonomous Agents and Things

Smart machine technologies that include Virtual Assistants and Autonomous Agents.

The New IT Reality

An emerging IT framework comprising Adaptive Security Architecture and Advanced System Architecture.

Autonomic Computing

A self-managing computing model classified under Advanced System Architecture within The New IT Reality.

Adaptive Security Architecture

A dynamic security approach categorized under The New IT Reality.