Scan™ Monthly
Scan™ Monthly (available to clients) highlights Signals of Change and Insights, and is published 11 times a year plus a special Year-in-Review issue. Scan clients also have access to notes and abstract sets from the Scan Abstract Meetings.
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| 2008 |
- June 2008
- SoC309 – Economies in Reverse Gear
- SoC310 – The Next Round of Crowdsourcing
- SoC311 – Clothing for Wellness and Health Care
- SoC312 – Engineering Affective Consumer Experiences
- SoC313 – Reality Mining and the DataTurbine
- SoC314 – Quickening Communication
- D08-2574 – Financial Pressures on the Middle Class
- D08-2575 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 21 May 2008 Meeting
- May 2008
- SoC303 – The Healthful Cell Phone
- SoC304 – Privacy-Infringing Business Models
- SoC305 – Conspicuous Conservation
- SoC306 – Virtual-World Diversity and Connectivity
- SoC307 – Priming the Mind
- SoC308 – Regional Centers of Innovation
- D08-2572 – Age, Gender, Family: Demographic Signals of Change
- D08-2573 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 24 April 2008 Meeting
- April 2008
- SoC297 – Evolving Sovereign Wealth Funds
- SoC298 – Biogerontechnology
- SoC299 – Second Incomes
- SoC300 – Online Behavior Alters Offline Behavior
- SoC301 – Epigenetics: Orchestrating Human Development
- SoC302 – Surreptitious Diagnosis
- D08-2570 – Migration and Regional Competition
- D08-2571 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 19 March 2008 Meeting
- March 2008
- SoC291 – GPS: The Emerging Business-Model Enabler
- SoC292 – The Science of Positive Experience
- SoC293 – Regional Competition for Talent
- SoC294 – DNA: The Engineering Tool Kit
- SoC295 – Privacy Trade-Offs
- SoC296 – Accommodating Seniors
- D08-2568 – Opportunities and Their Success Factors for RFID Technology
- D08-2569 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 20 February 2008 Meeting
- February 2008
- SoC285 – Internet Ads: A Hindrance or a Help?
- SoC286 – The Evolving Health-Care Ecosystem
- SoC287 – Alternative Currencies
- SoC288 – Biometrics as a Product Feature
- SoC289 – Cleansing Technologies
- SoC290 – Distributed or Consolidated Computing?
- D08-2566 – Crucial Factors Influencing RFID Technology's Future
- D08-2567 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 23 January 2008 Meeting
- January 2008
- SoC279 – Innovation Ecologies
- SoC280 – Online Maps Going Real Time
- SoC281 – Molecular Pharming
- SoC282 – Leveraging Photography on the Web
- SoC283 – Virtual Worlds Get Physical
- SoC284 – Consumer Personomics
- D08-2564 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 14 November 2007 Meeting
- D08-2565 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 19 December 2007 Meeting
| 2007 |
- December 2007
- Annual Review/Preview of Important Forces for Change in the Business Environment
- November 2007
- SoC273 – Designing a Competitive Advantage
- SoC274 – Online Destinations
- SoC275 – Brainware
- SoC276 – Making Sense of Motion
- SoC277 – The New Luxury Item: Food
- SoC278 – Environmental Health Risks and Opportunities
- D07-2562 – RFID-Enabled Medical Applications
- D07-2563 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 17 October 2007 Meeting
- October 2007
- SoC267 – Mixed Reality's Tipping Point
- SoC268 – Flexibility and Risk in Globalized Manufacturing
- SoC269 – Decoding Biology
- SoC270 – The Recipe for Innovation
- SoC271 – People Power: Immigration and Economic Health
- SoC272 – Private Enterprise, Public Policy
- D07-2560 – The Business Side of Emotions
- D07-2561 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 19 September 2007 Meeting
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- SoC249 – Neurotronics
- SoC250 – Provenance in the Spotlight
- SoC251 – Consumer Health-Care Informatics
- SoC252 – Untangling the Food- and Drug-Supply Chain
- SoC253 – Human Resources 2.0
- SoC254 – Timing Is Everything in Going Green
- D07-2554 – Near-Field Communication Commercialization Issues
- D07-2555 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 20 June 2007 Meeting
- June 2007
- SoC243 – The New Economic Nationalism
- SoC244 – Understanding Crowd Dynamics
- SoC245 – Boomers Beware
- SoC246 – Affordable 3-D and Haptic Controls
- SoC247 – Artists on the Leading Edge
- SoC248 – Solar Remediation
- D07-2552 – Boomer Product and Service Ideas from the Scan™ Database
- D07-2553 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 23 May 2007 Meeting
- May 2007
- SoC237 – Engineering Serendipity
- SoC238 – Mind Games: Neurofeedback Applications
- SoC239 – Building New Biomimes
- SoC240 – Moving from Participatory to Collaborative Virtual Worlds
- SoC241 – Managing Human Mindwidth Using IT
- SoC242 – Breaking New Sound Barriers
- D07-2550 – Sensing and Sense-Addressing Technologies Enter the Market
- D07-2551 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 18 April 2007 Meeting
- April 2007
- SoC231 – Customizing Nutrition
- SoC232 – Leveraging Internet Innovations
- SoC233 – The New Energy Environment
- SoC234 – Potential Cancer Breakthroughs
- SoC235 – Creating Sensual Foods
- SoC236 – Instant Online Translations
- D07-2548 – Crowdsourcing: Benefits and Drawbacks
- D07-2549 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 21 March 2007 Meeting
- March 2007
- SoC225 – Attitude Interventions
- SoC226 – The Personal-Values Chain
- SoC227 – Upscale Foods
- SoC228 – The Personal Factory Redux
- SoC229 – Neuroengineering Breakthroughs
- SoC230 – Nanoscale Self-Assembly
- D07-2546 – Emerging Tools and Techniques for Sustainability
- D07-2547 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 21 February 2007 Meeting
- February 2007
- SoC219 – Forecasting on Fast-Forward
- SoC220 – The Pursuit of Comfort
- SoC221 – Reducing Control, Increasing Value
- SoC222 – Authenticity on the Internet
- SoC223 – Have Prefab, Will Customize
- SoC224 – Legalities and Virtual Worlds
- D07-2544 – The Future of Families
- D07-2545 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 24 January 2007 Meeting
- January 2007
- SoC213 – Marketers In and Out of Control
- SoC214 – New Dimensions of Globalization
- SoC215 – The Democratization of Research
- SoC216 – Low-Tech Solutions to Complex Problems
- SoC217 – Biomedical Informatics
- SoC218 – The Move to Multicore and Parallel Processing
- D07-2542 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 15 November 2006 Meeting
- D07-2543 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 13 December 2006 Meeting
| 2006 |
- December 2006
- Annual Review/Preview of Scan's Hottest Topics for the Past Year and the Coming Year
- November 2006
- SoC207 – Venture Philanthropy
- SoC208 – Virtual Testing Grounds
- SoC209 – Automation Climbing the Value Chain
- SoC210 – Building Green
- SoC211 – Atomized Ads
- SoC212 – Biofuels and Genetic Modification
- D06-2540 – RFID-Enabled End-Consumer Applications: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- D06-2541 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 18 October 2006 Meeting
- October 2006
- SoC201 – The Art and Science of Smell
- SoC202 – IP Moves and Countermoves
- SoC203 – Novel Data-Collection Approaches
- SoC204 – Crowdsensing
- SoC205 – Unconventional Health-Care Fixes
- SoC206 – Virtual Reality versus Unreality
- D06-2538 – Systems Biology: Initiatives and Prospects
- D06-2539 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 20 September 2006 Meeting
- September 2006
- SoC195 – Successful Failures
- SoC196 – Humans as Ecosystems
- SoC197 – The Singularity Debate
- SoC198 – Knowing Your Customers
- SoC199 – Corporate Architectures of Participation
- SoC200 – Human Experience and Virtual Worlds
- D06-2536 – The Real-World Effects of Virtual Worlds
- D06-2537 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 23 August 2006 Meeting
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- SoC171 – Media Bits and Pieces
- SoC172 – Middle-Class Downshift
- SoC173 – Multisensory Landscapes
- SoC174 – Synthetic Life
- SoC175 – Evolving Corporate Cognition
- SoC176 – Fast and Affordable Genetic Profiles
- D06-2528 – Flexible Displays: Just around the Bend
- D06-2529 – Scan™ Meeting Digest: 19 April 2006 Meeting
- April 2006
- SoC165 – China's Early Maturity
- SoC166 – Securing the Power-Supply Chain
- SoC167 – Media Manipulators
- SoC168 – Medical Tourism
- SoC169 – The Joy of the Unexpected
- SoC170 – Predictions and Behavior
- D06-2526 – The Quest for New Interface Technologies
- D06-2527 – Synergistic RFID Applications Spawn New Developments
- March 2006
- SoC159 – Search-and-Select Advertising
- SoC160 – The Next Gender Gap
- SoC161 – Machine-Usable Personal Profiling
- SoC162 – Nanotechnology Concerns: Real or Imagined?
- SoC163 – Selective Search
- SoC164 – Up-and-Coming Intermediaries
- D06-2524 – Machine-to-Machine Communication on a Roll
- D06-2525 – Geodata for Everyone
- February 2006
- SoC153 – Democratizing Cartography
- SoC154 – Rethinking Personal Risk
- SoC155 – Identities in Jeopardy
- SoC156 – Tuning the Human Senses
- SoC157 – New Tools for Complex Systems
- SoC158 – Korean Entertainment Exports
- D06-2522 – Challenges in a Cell-Phone–Centered World
- D06-2523 – RFID Technology in the Health-Care and Pharmaceutical Industries
- January 2006
| 2005 |
- December 2005
- Annual Preview/Review of Scan's Watch List of Defining Forces
- November 2005
- SoC141 – The Art and Science of Light
- SoC142 – Real Commerce in Virtual Worlds
- SoC143 – Annoyance Avoidance
- SoC144 – Progress in Autonomous Vehicles
- SoC145 – Sleep's Multifaceted Benefits
- SoC146 – Molecular Gastronomy, Hypercuisine, and Metabolomics
- D05-2518 – Distributed Infrastructure: New Ideas, Realities, and Consequences
- D05-2519 – Human Augmentation and Lifestyle Cults
- October 2005
- September 2005
- SoC129 – From Cocreation to Competition
- SoC130 – Nanomedicine
- SoC131 – Sensation-al Design
- SoC132 – A New Species in Telecom
- SoC133 – Sustainability Redux
- SoC134 – Leveraging Existing Infrastructures
- D05-2514 – Health-Care Innovation Opportunities
- D05-2515 – Revolutionary Solutions to Health Care's Malaise
- August 2005
- SoC123 – The Malleability of Aging
- SoC124 – Internet Television
- SoC125 – Biodiesel's Improving Prospects
- SoC126 – Innovative Approaches to Innovation
- SoC127 – The Wellness/Lifestyle Balancing Act
- SoC128 – The Next Generation Gap
- D05-2512 – Evolving Concepts of Quality of Life
- D05-2513 – Wireless Computing Builds the Back Channel
- July 2005
- SoC117 – Some Assembly Required
- SoC118 – Biotech Ontologies and the Semantic Web
- SoC119 – The Irrational Consumer
- SoC120 – Open Source as an Engine for Innovation
- SoC121 – Technology and Anthropology
- SoC122 – Innovation Overload
- D05-2510 – Progress in Transitioning to a Hydrogen Economy
- D05-2511 – The Quest for Inexpensive Electronics
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- SoC099 – A (Predictive) Model of Health
- SoC100 – Mezzo-Tech Solutions
- SoC101 – Real-World Search Online
- SoC102 – Spin, PR, and the Evolving Media Landscape
- SoC103 – Syndromic Surveillance
- SoC104 – When Form Is Function
- D05-2504 – The World According to Google
- D05-2505 – How Much Risk Are Consumers Willing to Take?
- March 2005
- SoC093 – Service Science
- SoC094 – Blogging as a PR Tool?
- SoC095 – Robots Learning New Moves and Moods
- SoC096 – Coping with Climate Change
- SoC097 – Evolving Manufacturing
- SoC098 – The Stem-Cell–Research Race
- D05-2502 – Impact/Uncertainty Dynamics in Corporate Decision Making
- D05-2503 – Health Care and Life Sciences: Prime Candidates for the Semantic Web
- February 2005
- SoC087 – Personal Healthware
- SoC088 – Sensor Synergies
- SoC089 – The Back Side of Distribution
- SoC090 – Personal Biomonitoring for Chemicals
- SoC091 – Private Equity: Turn at Bat or Paradigm Shift?
- SoC092 – Healing Light
- D05-2500 – Services Innovation: Challenge for Manufacturers
- D05-2501 – Inference Engines for Home and Mobile Applications
- January 2005
- SoC081 – The Handheld Lifestyle
- SoC082 – Risk Algorithms: Terrorism versus Tsunamis
- SoC083 – Proliferating Privacy Threats
- SoC084 – Personalized BioBanks
- SoC085 – Asian Globalization
- SoC086 – Computing: Beyond Ballistics
- D05-2498 – New Perspectives on Intelligence
- D05-2499 – Learning in Context of Business Processes and Workflows
| 2004 |
- December 2004
- Annual Preview/Review of Scan's Watch List of Defining Forces
- November 2004
- SoC077 – Mainstreaming the Mind-Body Connection
- SoC078 – Google Identities
- SoC079 – Selling One-on-One in China
- SoC080 – The IP Industry?
- D04-2494 – Commercialization: From Idea to Implementation
- D04-2495 – Peer-to-Peer Applications Move Aboveground
- D04-2496 – Exploring Mass Customization in Medicine
- D04-2497 – New Directions for Corporate R&D
- October 2004
- SoC073 – Customizing Medicine for the Masses
- SoC074 – Not-So-Open Information Access
- SoC075 – Transparency Technologies
- SoC076 – Market Research: Behind the Times
- D04-2490 – Challenges in Nanoelectronics Development
- D04-2491 – Federating Digital Identity
- D04-2492 – Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles
- D04-2493 – Maximizing Use and Value of CRM through eLearning
- September 2004
- August 2004
- SoC065 – Mixing New Media
- SoC066 – VoIP: Proceed with Caution
- SoC067 – Electronics, Fabrics, and Clothing
- SoC068 – Selling Serenity
- D04-2482 – Commercial Prospects for Nanomaterials
- D04-2483 – The Regenerative Power of Human Stem Cells
- D04-2484 – Recent Developments in Biofuel Cells
- D04-2485 – Revaluing Water: 2004
- July 2004
- SoC061 – Enhancing Human Senses
- SoC062 – Exploring Pricing Models
- SoC063 – Ethanol on the Move
- SoC064 – Downloading Risk to Consumers
- D04-2478 – Overcoming E-Mail Overload
- D04-2479 – Signals of Change in Advanced User Interfaces: The Scan™ Process at Work
- D04-2480 – Security Issues in Pervasive Computing
- D04-2481 – A Learning Perspective on Customer-Focused Online Communities
- June 2004
- SoC057 – Not-So-Viral Marketing
- SoC058 – Synthetic Biology
- SoC059 – Creating Markets in Developing Countries
- SoC060 – Paper Technologies
- D04-2474 – Information Cascades and Social Contagion
- D04-2475 – Noninvasive Testing and Sensors for Health Care
- D04-2476 – Selling Products and Services in Emerging Markets
- D04-2477 – Future Audiences for Advertising: Enraged or Engaged?
- May 2004
- SoC053 – Reading Consumers' Minds
- SoC054 – Tapping the Global Genome
- SoC055 – The Next Internet?
- SoC056 – Nano-Bio-IT Convergence
- D04-2470 – Advances in Speech Technologies: Pointing the Way to New Applications
- D04-2471 – Online Dispute Resolution
- D04-2472 – Learning Implications of Social-Networking Technology and Services
- D04-2473 – The Scan™ Process
- April 2004
- SoC049 – Disabled by Design
- SoC050 – Machines That Sense
- SoC051 – The Bio-Silicon Interface
- SoC052 – Elderly Assumptions
- D04-2466 – Neuroimaging, Neuroeconomics, and Neuromarketing
- D04-2467 – Advanced Drug-Delivery Systems
- D04-2468 – Nanotechnology Basics
- D04-2469 – Metadata Extraction for Interface Technologies: Potential and Risks
- March 2004
- SoC045 – Data Strategies for Data Conflicts
- SoC046 – The End of Actuarial Medicine?
- SoC047 – Neuromarketing
- SoC048 – Animate, Inanimate, or Neither?
- D04-2462 – Beyond the Supply Chain: RFID in the Value Chain
- D04-2463 – Privacy Concerns in Consumer Marketing
- D04-2464 – Next-Generation Mentoring for eLearning
- D04-2465 – Beyond the Human Genome Project: Science and Technology Update
- February 2004
- SoC041 – Automating Research
- SoC042 – Conversing with Images
- SoC043 – Recycling IP
- SoC044 – Public Perceptions of Nanotechnology
- D04-2458 – Making Information Easier to Find
- D04-2459 – The Case for Voice over Internet Protocol
- D04-2460 – RFID Comes of Age in Manufacturing and Supply-Chain Applications
- D04-2461 – Evolving CRM
- January 2004
- SoC037 – Surfing the Data Deluge
- SoC038 – Bettor Predictions
- SoC039 – Templates for Nanoscale Arrays
- SoC040 – Segway's Second Act
- D04-2454 – Social-Networking–Software Tools for Business
- D04-2455 – Futures Markets as Forecasting Tools
- D04-2456 – RFID on Top of the Hype Curve
- D04-2457 – Microbioanalytical Devices: Trends and Developments
| 2003 |
- December 2003
- Annual Preview/Review of Scan's Watch List of Defining Forces
- November 2003
- SoC033 – China's Global Designs
- SoC034 – eScience
- SoC035 – Brand Exhaustion
- SoC036 – The United States of Asia
- D03-2450 – Health-Care Applications of Pervasive-Computing Technologies
- D03-2451 – Strategies for Privacy-Related Business Issues
- D03-2452 – Business Perspectives on Emergence
- D03-2453 – Prospects for Ultrawideband Communications
- October 2003
- SoC029 – Interactive Advertising
- SoC030 – China's Global Brands
- SoC031 – Activating Shareholders
- SoC032 – Branded Generics
- D03-2446 – The Mythical Product Benefit
- D03-2447 – Smart Dust: Self-Organizing Wireless Sensor Networks
- D03-2448 – Bioelectronics: Integrating Biomolecules with Electronics
- D03-2449 – Managing Issues: Proactive Responses to Public Concerns
- September 2003
- SoC025 – Beauty Medicine and the Worried Well
- SoC026 – Offshoring into a Skills Shortage
- SoC027 – Patient, Heal the System!
- SoC028 – Cognitive Agent That Learns and Organizes
- D03-2442 – Consumer-Driven Health Care
- D03-2443 – Business Implications of New Directions in Speech Technology
- D03-2444 – New Tools and Challenges in the War against Spam
- D03-2445 – Open Source eLearning: Opportunities and Threats
- August 2003
- SoC021 – E-Commerce Ecosystems
- SoC022 – Cognitive Computing
- SoC023 – Deregulation's Downside
- SoC024 – Product Communities
- D03-2438 – Opportunities in Swarm Intelligence
- D03-2439 – MEMS: Growing Market Applications and Opportunities
- D03-2440 – Leveraging Organizational IQ to Improve Management Processes
- D03-2441 – Engaging Consumers' Attention and Building Brand Awareness
- July 2003
- SoC017 – Technology Shaping Behavior
- SoC018 – Fast Mass Analysis
- SoC019 – Emotion Recognition
- SoC020 – Swarming Difficulties
- D03-2434 – Speech Mining and Translation Technologies: Looking for Traction in the Marketplace
- D03-2435 – Nanobiotechnology Research and Commercial Applications in the Life Sciences
- D03-2436 – Benchmarking Corporate Performance: Emerging Tools and Metrics
- D03-2437 – Ten Lessons in Technology Development from Explorer
- June 2003
- SoC013 – URLs for Products: The Internet of Things
- SoC014 – Brand as Network
- SoC015 – Geocaching
- SoC016 – Powered by Chicken Fat
- D03-2430 – Influences of Past Purchases on Future Purchase Decisions
- D03-2431 – Bottom-Up versus Top-Down Artificial Intelligence
- D03-2432 – Solid-State Thin-Film Microbattery Developments
- D03-2433 – Homeland Security: High-Tech on the Defensive
- May 2003
- SoC009 – Moblogging
- SoC010 – Engaging Consumer Attention
- SoC011 – Revaluing Water
- SoC012 – Context Awareness
- D03-2426 – Exploring the Competitive Dynamics of Product-Category Relationships
- D03-2427 – Personal Influence Marketing: All about Buzz
- D03-2428 – Nutraceuticals: Opportunities and Threats
- D03-2429 – U.S. Corporate Responses to Global Climate Change
- April 2003
- SoC005 – IM Implications
- SoC006 – Japan's Future in China
- SoC007 – RFID Liabilities
- SoC008 – Fraud versus Fraud
- D03-2422 – Digital Copyright: Clouding the Competitive Environment
- D03-2423 – Reconceptualizing the Competitive Environment of Consumer Products
- D03-2424 – Communications as the Gateway to Pervasive Computing
- D03-2425 – China's Role in the Global Electronic Future
- March 2003
- SoC001 – Trivial Pursuits
- SoC002 – Little Progress on Fair Use
- SoC003 – Data Federation
- SoC004 – Occam's Revenge
- D03-2418 – The Future of Electronic Marketplaces
- D03-2419 – Biotechnology: Industry Inflection Point or Investment Bubble?
- D03-2420 – Enterprise Portals: Emerging Adoption Patterns
- D03-2421 – Lessons in eLearning from the Oil and Gas Industry
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