Listening: The Future of Discontinuity
Audiție: Viitorul discontinuităților pe piață. Ascultați un interviu radiofonic despre cercetarea viitorului. Această audiere vă ajută să recunoașteți efectele secundare și semnalele slabe în discuții profesionale.
Аудирование: Будущее рыночных разрывов. Послушайте радиоинтервью об исследовании будущего. Это упражнение развивает навыки понимания сложных тем о долгосрочном прогнозировании и тенденциях.
The Future of Discontinuity
A live broadcast on a London business station where a futures researcher discusses horizon scanning, second-order effects and long-range planning with two skeptical hosts.
The Future of Discontinuity
True or false?
Noah Vance is a futures researcher based in Edinburgh.
- True
- False
The hosts expected a Silicon Valley tech giant to be the best example of foresight.
- True
- False
The sandwich chain Crust & Craft used complex AI models to predict market trends.
- True
- False
Second-order effects are frequently missed by firms looking only at direct metrics.
- True
- False
Crust & Craft tested their assumptions against labour shortages and climate scenarios.
- True
- False
Listen again and complete the sentences
- Amanda: Welcome back to Horizon Shift. I'm Amanda, and with me is Kevin. Today we're diving into ____ with Dr. Noah Vance, an expert in futures research based in Edinburgh.
- Noah: Because they mistake linear extrapolation for strategy, Kevin. They ignore the weak signals flickering at the edge of their industry until a sudden ____ shatters their core business.
- Amanda: You talk a lot about ____ . How does a legacy enterprise actually spot these tiny ripples before they turn into tidal waves?
- Noah: It requires active ____ rather than passive forecasting. Most firms look only at direct metrics, completely missing the second-order effects of new technologies.
- Kevin: Can you give us an example of a company that mastered this kind of ____ without wasting millions on vanity metrics?
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Acest modul avansat de engleză pentru profesioniști IT din Europa de Est se concentrează pe comunicarea strategică de nivel executiv. Veți stăpâni structurile gramaticale formale pentru viitor și vocabularul esențial al planificării pe termen lung.
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Этот продвинутый модуль английского языка для IT-специалистов из Восточной Европы ориентирован на стратегические коммуникации исполнительного уровня. Вы освоите формальные структуры будущего времени и ключевую лексику для долгосрочного планирования.