Mohsen Taheri

University of Isfahan · Department of Management

BACKGROUND Production, publication, and effective of academic research in health policy-making are tools to strengthen interactions between policy-makers, the scientific community, and the public. The purpose of this study was to identify the key factors of knowledge translation in the policy-making of the health system in Iran using the structural...

شتاب، عمق و گستردگی تحولات در جهان پیش رو موجب شده است تا شکاف میان یادگیری رسمی و نیازهای جامعه روز به روز عمیق‌تر شود. ما باید کودکان را برای آینده‌ای آماده کنیم که تصویر روشنی از آن نداریم و نوجوانان را برای مشاغلی مهیا سازیم که هنوز پدید نیامده‌اند. در چنین شرایطی پرسش‌ها و دغدغه‌های متعددی مطرح می‌شوند، از جمله: نیروهای موثر بر برنامه‌های درسی...

Thinking about alternative futures of education in terms of anticipation and proactive encounters towards upcoming developments and nurturing future citizens is essential. Therefore, this study aimed to do foresight of the primary school curriculum in 2035. The study was conducted using a foresight approach and a scenario-planning tool, which resul...

Purpose Due to the limitations of conventional urban planning, it is essential to develop novel techniques of urban futruing. This paper aimed to use the scenario technique to create four plausible narratives of the future of Isfahan. Also, the authors described the problems of city foresight in the Global South. Design/methodology/approach This p...

کودکان نسل آلفا به دلیل تجارب زیسته متفاوت‌ و روندهای نوپدید جامعه، باورها و انتظارات کاملاً متفاوتی دارند. این نسل که متولدین بین سال‌های 2010 تا 2024 میلادی هستند، به‌عنوان جوان‌ترین نسل حال حاضر شناخته می‌شوند. آن‌ها در آینده‌ای نزدیک به محیط‌های کاری ورود پیدا خواهند کرد و جهانی متفاوت را رقم خواهند زد و به همین جهت شناخت ویژگی‌ها و ادراکات آن‌...

The ever-increasing environmental complexity makes strategizing a difficult multidimensional task. In this paper, we conducted a corporate foresight case study in an SME in packaging industry in Iran. The case study offers a detailed procedure of implementing corporate foresight (CF) and how it can reshape traditional strategic planning. A multimet...

Purpose: Clustering and co-word analysis a method to reveal relationships and links and illustrate the intellectual structure of a scientific field. This research tries to study the intellectual structure of articles in the field of futures studies in Iran by using the technique of co-word analysis. Method: The current research is a descriptive-ana...

Purpose: Public libraries are faced with technological changes and unknown issues that can change their identity and mission in charting the future path for their role in social developments. In line with the use of new approaches to redefine the mission of libraries, the present research intends to provide a vision for Iran’s public libraries by u...

The movement from intra-disciplinary toward inter-disciplinary approaches by focusing on real-world problems is a growing trend in higher education. Thus, next generation universities will move toward inter-disciplinary discourses. In the meantime, systematic studies of futures or futures studies have also been considered by academics in various fi...

The world of the future will coincide with dramatic and unprecedented developments in the fields of science, technology and information transmission. Living in such a world creates a large gap between the emerging generation of learners called the "Generation Alpha" and previous generations, making conventional learning methods inefficient. Therefo...

Many organizations and businesses are using futurology to keep pace with the ever-increasing changes in the world, as the businesses and organizations need to be updated to achieve organizational and business growth and development. A review of the previous studies has shown that no systematic research has been already conducted on the future of in...

Emerging energy systems are inherently different from their conventional counter-parts. To address all issues of these systems, comprehensive approaches of transdisciplinary and post-normal sciences are needed. This article tries to re-conceptualize emerging energy systems using Robert Rosen’s theory of anticipatory system and introduces the concep...

Despite the importance and position of evidence-based policymaking in the proper management of the health system, studies show that the lack or improper and untimely use of evidence are still one of the main challenges of health systems. Knowledge translation as a solution to this challenge is a process that includes a period of time that starts of...

Abstract: In contemporary world where information is all about human beings, what matters most is the accurate retrieval of information. Information retrieval has always been a human concern, which is why it is constantly undergoing many changes. One of the issues that information retrieval experts have always been thinking about is designing an ef...

In contemporary world where information is all about human beings, what matters most is the accurate retrieval of information. Information retrieval has always been a human concern, which is why it is constantly undergoing many changes. One of the issues that information retrieval experts have always been thinking about is designing an efficient in...

Purpose: To identify factors influencing the future of text information retrieval systems with a forward-looking approach. Methodology: Document analysis and survey are used to identify factors. The research population in the document analysis section consists of literature related to the textual information retrieval field and in the survey sectio...

Future generations are at risk from the effects of climate change. We have created these dangers, but our children must live with them. Mankind’s impact on the Earth’s systems, from atmospheric to oceanic, has become so extreme that they have led to a dystopian image of the future, called “the Anthropocene age,” and there are solid reasons for this...