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Thinking about a Foresight Scan Library

 
 

Choosing the right platform

 
It's worth considering the platform's functionality in the early stages of choosing a platform; what's the balance between flexibility vs structure around tagging architecture, search capability & data portability.

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    Think about whether an out of the box solution is right for you.

    There are various futures platforms, some are designed for corporate horizon scanning with various levels of support and AI-content search functionality. The enterprise platforms cost a bit more but some provide access to their own horizon scanning content and include great features like driver mapping and topic clustering.

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    There are also bookmark and web clipping platforms that might do the trick.

    There are a number of web clipping, social sharing + bookmark platforms which can do the job of collecting online scans. Although they’re not built specifically with foresight scanning in mind, they might be enough if you don’t need any fancy functionality or are just building a scan library for a project or one-off purpose.
 

Thinking about Tags

 
When it comes to tagging we want a balance between flexibility (being able to add tags for a particular project) and structure, which enables us to search easily across our entire scanning database when we have hundreds or thousands of scan hits.
  • Global Tags
    You’ll have some global tags which you’ll add for every scan hit. You might also want to indicate the scanner so that you can filter by scanner later.
  • Project Tags
    You might want to add some additional tags which support the project you’re working on but you won't necessarily want to have the same tags for every scan all the time.

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