Community Needs Assessment Process

As trends never speak for themselves, the identification and description of patterns is
partly empirical and partly creative activity. The most challenging part of qualitative
trends analysis is identification of a tendency early, as recognition of a mature trend is
"relatively useless" in influencing anyone's behaviour.
Adaptive Role-Playing
Although similar to decision theory, game theory studies decisions that are made in an
environment where various players interact. In other words, game theory studies choice
of optimal behavior when costs and benefits of each option are not fixed, but depend
upon the choices of other individuals.
ALL-WinWin collaborative efforts require group decision support systems (GDSS) that
enable the knowledge management community of practice to
assure sustainable mutually-beneficial results.
Strategic Foresight is a planning-oriented discipline related to futures studies,
the study of the future. Strategy is a high level plan to achieve one or more goals under
conditions of uncertainty. Strategic foresight happens when any planner uses scanned
inputs, forecasts, alternative futures exploration, analysis and feedback to produce or
alter plans and actions of the organization.
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