Trend
Origin: Lat. tendĕre
General tendency or direction evident from past events increasing or decreasing in value and often forming a pattern that is evident from past events. Sufficient data are required to observe relationships and changes over time. A trend is a measurable or observable transformation in a given system.
Spanish: Tendencia
Sources and references
- Jackson. Michael “Foresight Glossary”cited 180 times
- Arizona education futures.- Glossary definitions of selected futures termscited 14 times
- Institute for Alternartive Futures “Wiser Futures Workshop Compendium: Using futures tools to better understand and create the future”cited 31 times
- Foresight Glossary and the Complex Systems Dynamicscited 7 times
- Gutierrez, Miguel Angel. “Futures studies glossary.”cited 43 times
- Destatte, Philippe y Philippe Durance “Les mot-clés de la prospective territoriale”cited 56 times
Term connections
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Mentioned by
- Alternative (option)
- Arlington impact index
- Aspirational futures
- Averaging methods
- Big History
- Box Jenkins models
- Breaks, Ruptures, Disruptions, Discontinuities
- Business as usual scenario
- Causal layered analysis
- Complexity
- Concept map
- Cone of plausibility
- Corporate foresight
- Counter trend
- Cross impact analysis method
- Decomposition
- Discontinuity, lack of continuity
- Drivers
- Driving forces
- Dynamic timeline
- Emergent phenomenon
- Emerging issue
- Emerging issues analysis
- Emerging pattern
- Environmental scanning
- Expectable Future
- Exploratory forecasting
- Exploratory foresight
- Exploratory scenarios
- Extrapolation, projection
- Foresight (future studies, futures thinking, anticipation)
- Future studies
- Futures design
- Futures research
- Futures wheel
- Futurescan system
- Generational generative dialogue
- Germ, weak signal, shaping factor
- Google N-Gram
- Government foresight
- Group think
- Impact factor
- Impact matrix
- Impact wheel
- Interactive futures conference
- Key forces
- La prospective
- Localism
- Macrohistory
- MACTOR method
- Map of the future
- Megatrend
- Megatrends
- Methods table
- Minitrends
- Modelski model
- Moore’s Law
- Nonlinear
- Precursor analysis
- Predictive extrapolative methods
- Process leader
- Projection
- Researching Futures of X
- Scanning
- Scenario (story, narrative, outcome, path)
- Smoothing
- SOF, State of the Future Report
- SOFI, State of the Future Index
- Technology foresight
- Trend assessment
- Trend extrapolation
- Trend impact analysis
- Vision
- Vision in futures
- Weak signals, seeds of change
- Wild cards
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