{"id":4676,"date":"2016-08-21T01:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/?page_id=4676"},"modified":"2016-08-21T01:15:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T01:15:17","slug":"tasks-identifying-trends-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/learning-pathways\/identifying-trends-and-drivers-of-change\/tasks-identifying-trends-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasks &#8211; Identifying trends challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activity\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Learning challenge tasks<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Complete the tasks listed below.\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Thinking about a full range of relevant financial, social, environmental, cultural and political issues; note down your thoughts about past, present and\/or foreseeable trends relevant to your area of interest, business or organisation relating to:\n<ul>\n<li> The supply of essential resources that your business or community depends upon.\n<\/li>\n<li> Environmental impacts and the health of ecosystems.\n<\/li>\n<li> Social needs, including health and safety of people and communities.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> These may be drawn using the funnel model, with the size of the writing representing the influence of the trend.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Part_2\">Part 2<\/span><\/h1>\n<ol>\n<li> Think about a full range of possible scenarios for your business or community if:\n<ul>\n<li> Prices for particular resources rise sharply.\n<\/li>\n<li> People&#8217;s concerns about environmental issues relevant to your industry reach a critical point without warning.\n<\/li>\n<li> People&#8217;s demand changes quickly in favour of products and services that can be delivered sustainably.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Part_3\">Part 3<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Copy this table and populate it with what you consider are the three most important trends you have identified from the above questions.<br \/>\nThe table is also available in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/File:Understanding_the_challenge_table.pdf\">PDF version<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"oeru1 table table-striped\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>The issue\/trend\n<\/th>\n<th>What&#8217;s changing?\n<\/th>\n<th>Why &#8211; what is driving the change?\n<\/th>\n<th>Where might this trend go in the future?\n<\/th>\n<th>So what for us? <br \/>Risk and opportunity &#8211; potential action\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align:top;\">\n<td><i><b>Example for business<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Tender documents increasingly ask for sustainability performance information.\n<\/td>\n<td><i><b>Example<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>More questions being asked about environmental and social governance aspects of our organisation.\n<\/td>\n<td><i><b>Example<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Customers are seeking to show increasing corporate responsibility and want to know their suppliers can support their efforts.\n<\/td>\n<td><i><b>Example<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Tenders may ultimately require a pre-qualification stage where a minimum level of sustainability literacy and performance is required.\n<\/td>\n<td><i><b>Example<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>We may miss out on tenders with ideal clients if our own house is not in order. We may increase our chances of winning the work we want by differentiating with strong and relevant evidence of sustainable practice.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align:top;\">\n<td><i><b>Example for community<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The river is increasingly polluted.\n<\/td>\n<td><i><b>Example<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Drinking water has to be treated, cannot swim in some locations, wildlife poisoned.\n<\/td>\n<td><i><b>Example<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Inadequate legal protection against cumulative effects, increased pollution from business\/agriculture.\n<\/td>\n<td><i><b>Example<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Unsafe for recreational use, cost of providing drinking water increases, impacts on visitor industry. Ultimately, river may become &#8216;dead&#8217;.\n<\/td>\n<td><i><b>Example<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Community will pay more for clean water supply and\/or treatment. Loss of economic opportunities for others from clean and healthy river&#8230;\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.029 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.034 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 86\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 786\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 4047\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2608\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:177716-0!*!*!!*!2!* and timestamp 20160820164952 and revision id 1009120\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/csf102\/learning-pathways\/identifying-trends-and-drivers-of-change\/start-identifying-trends-challenge\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/csf102\/learning-pathways\/identifying-trends-and-drivers-of-change\/outputs-identifying-trends-challenge\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue\/trend What&#8217;s changing? Why &#8211; what is driving the change? Where might this trend go in the future? So what for us? Risk and opportunity &#8211; potential action Example for business Tender documents increasingly ask for sustainability performance information. Example More questions being asked about environmental and social governance aspects of our organisation. Example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4664,"menu_order":4400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4676","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4676\/revisions\/4677"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/csf102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}