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Drivers of Change - Foresight for CASSS' Future

INSTRUCTIONS: Please rate the potential future impact of these drivers of change in two ways:

1) The degree to which this driver could affect individuals and organizations within the field of biopharmaceutical development and regulation.

2)The degree to which this driver could affect CASSS, its priorities and operations.
1.Issue: Changing Science and Regulations. The global scientific enterprise is changing. New regions are developing research centers and funding science on the scale of traditional science hubs in the West. This comes with differing priorities, standards and ethics. Concurrently, citizen science and "Do-It-Yourself" research are supplementing and challenging traditional scientific institutions. Falling trust and rising sociopolitical polarization are impacting science, while automation and new modalities bring additional changes and challenges.
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2.Issue: Technological Trends. The pandemic-propelled surge in online meetings is driving a growing need for content and structures that engage online and face-to-face participants. Developing technologies will open participation and generate novel experiences, but best practices have yet to be institutionalized. Innovations in augmented and virtual reality and telepresence will create new modes of interaction for work and conferences that further blur the boundaries between online and face-to-face formats.
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3.Issue: Demographic Trends. There are more generations in the work place than ever before. At the same time, the very nature of work is changing with the growth of freelance, contract and temporary work along with the infrastructure to support them (e.g. online platforms and reputation systems) are growing. The number of independent professionals is expanding, and networked organizations rely on them. Education is also being forced to change. Associations will have new opportunities to address these changes.
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4.Issue: Re-Working Career Pathways. The idea that the course of people's professional lives is settled in their twenties is long-outmoded, but employers and life structures have been slow to adapt to this fact. However, organizations are increasingly assisting workers with midlife transitions, such as going back to school, enhancing skills for new career directions, or allowing for reduced hours so that employees can pursue other interests. Such steps create a need to rethink work, education, and social safety nets to accommodate new approaches.
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5.Issue: A World Reshaped by COVID. As the worst pandemic in more than a century ebbs through the early 2020s, some of its effects will prove ephemeral, as deeply rooted habits and institutions return to their previous states, while other trends that have been kicked into higher gear will accelerate. Associations will face an evolving environment of regressing and accelerating trends, including trends in telework, frictions regarding travel, various disruptions for businesses and consumers, and a fundamental reassessment of priorities in people's lives.
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6.What other trends or changes do you thing will have a significant impact on our industry or members in the CASSS community?
7.May we contact you if we have follow up questions for you?
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