In industry, performing dependability evaluation along with other analyses allows anticipating and making trade-offs.
The rapid change ahead will be highly impacted by technology, and the lessons of the past tell us that while we can anticipate and make reasoned predictions, the future is far from certain.
To this end, there are a short list of challenges that the new Secretary can anticipate and make plans to address.
Such efforts stimulate those involved in a research & action pathway (e.g. researchers, policy makers, end-users) to anticipate and make adaptations that increase the likelihood that contributions to action are realized.
Middle Stone Age peoples in the Kalahari appear to have been more mobile than anticipated, and repeatedly made costly choices with regard to both raw material selection and items to be transported.
The men who drafted the Constitution hadn't anticipated parties, and made no provision for them.
Before launching any operation against the rebels, the regional militaries should have ensured that their plan had a high probability of success, anticipated contingencies, and made precautions to minimize dangers to civilians.
Now he seemed bemused by questions that he should have easily anticipated, and his answers made him seem glib, or uninformed.
Of course they would have long anticipated this change and made concrete arrangements to relocate their bloody operations to Libya, Syria, Iraq, northern Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, where they are hoping that the longer the conflicts last, and the more civilians, especially women, children and other vulnerable people lose their lives, the higher the profit margin will be.
