1. HORIZON SCANNING The Investment Litmus Test
Software
Industries

2. An orderly method
Here we use the SATERPLIDE acronym to prompt the scan for future events and their consequences. The segments are:
Social (See Maslows’s Hierarchy of Human Needs)
Approach (First response to an issue)
Technology (Applying our innovation to reliable approaches)
Economic (The benefits in productivity from technology)
Resources (Human and Natural, required and consumed)
Political (Ownership rights of tribes to resources)
Legal (Administration of political resolutions)
International (Resolution of international differences)
Demographic (Population shift to better circumstances)
Environment (Built by Humans and by Nature, our impact)

3. An orderly method
Note that there is a series of cause-and-effect relationships going around the circle.
This discovery technique ensures thorough scanning in our due diligence process.

4. SOCIAL Segment Creativity Respect Acceptance Comfort Survival
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs
Creativity
Respect
Acceptance
Comfort
Survival
Problem Solving
What do you know?
Observing local customs
A roof over your head
If your life is at risk, you may compromise on the items above survival

5. Human Need:
Reliable access to high quality software services & products.

6. APPROACH Segment What to do if your human needs are being frustrated?
Survival
Flee, Fight,
Comfort
Build, Adapt
Acceptance
Join, Communicate
Respect
Learn, Teach
Creativity
Design, Invent
Develop ways of improving the availability of high quality software

7. TECHNOLOGY Segment
How to make a successful approach re-useable & reliable?
It seems software research needs to be done in highly specialized research centers.

8. ECONOMIC Segment
How do the improved software operations improve the quality of life? - By providing high quality solutions.

9. RESOURCES Segment
What are the human and natural resources required to sustain the economic activity? – energy and people to start with

10. The World Economic Forum assists with exchange of political views
POLITICAL Segment
The software industry supply chains have political intersections between the regulators and suppliers of the various resources.
The World Economic Forum assists with exchange of political views

11. LEGAL Segment
Software industry operating procedures require detailed regulation for their success.

12. INTERNATIONAL Segment
How are differences between international systems resolved?

13. DEMOGRAPHIC Segment
What is the impact of economic success of the software industries on population mix and location?
In the case of China, the software industries have supported further development activities of all kinds. These have resulted in migration towards the east coast.

14. ENVIRONMENT Segment
What is the impact of economic success of software industries on the natural and the built infrastructure? The industries need energy, which can be a major polluter in its generation.

15. Next steps: Identify the future event labels