Strategizing Societal Transformation: Knowledge, Technologies, and Noonomy

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This book is dualistic in its nature: it seeks to combine two approaches to the analysis and assessment of societal development prospects and to strengthen the capacity of each. The book describes the strategic development of regional economies as well as worldwide trends. The theory and methodology of strategy should extend much further and deeper than what is obvious to everyone. Strategy is aimed at the effective movement of the object of strategizing to the reality that does not exist and will only begin to form within a certain period of time, which is determined by long-term prospects. One approach has at its core managing the information and technological development of society―its social and economic transformation―through developing and implementing a particular strategy with a concept or doctrine of the planned guidelines as its first stage. Strategizing the information-technological transformation of society is proved to be most effective when it covers long-term development periods, which will lead to significant and even fundamental changes in the values and priorities of socio-economic development. Another approach described in this volume, which is implemented in conjunction with strategizing, is connected to the conceptual understanding of long-term development. The concept of noonomy represents a complex theory of transformation based on technological change and the resulting shifts in social organization. It demonstrates not only trends but also qualitative social shifts to which these transformations lead. In this way, the approach put forward in the theory of noonomy makes it possible to anticipate and evaluate distant horizons of social development and to grasp the transitions from one stage to the next. Employing the concept of noonomy in the processes of strategy is a prognostic phase, immediately preceding the processes of strategy and creating a reference point for them. This book represents the unique strategy concepts (V. L. Kvint) and noonomy (S. D. Bodrunov) have been brought together. The idea of uniting the authors’ views on the problems of civilizational development has a common scientific platform: the definition of long-term goals and the choice of economic and strategic tools to achieve them. This book summarizes the authors’ main approaches to the issues at hand to facilitate the applied problem set by the authors, which is to demonstrate the productivity of synthesizing these approaches to the study of societal development patterns for subsequent use in their theoretical and practical implementation. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page About the Authors Table of Contents A Word To The Reader 1. Global Development Trends 1.1 Progress in Science and Technology and a New Technological Order 1.2 Industrial and Technological Revolution 1.3 Transformational Processes in the Global Economy and Civilizational Development: Opportunities and Risks 1.4 Noonomy as a Conceptual Platform for the Global Transformation of Society 2. Trends in Socioeconomic Developmental Goals and Priorities 2.1 Change in the Nature of Needs in the Movement Toward Noo-Production 2.2 Quality of Life as a Target for Societal Development 3. The Basis for Strategizing National Development 3.1 Strategizing as a Method for Identifying Development Interests, Priorities, and Goals 3.2 Strategic Goal-Setting and Planning Tools 4. Strategic Goals of Socioeconomic Development 4.1 Identifying Strategic Targets 4.2 National Projects 5. Priorities for the Modernization of the National Economy 5.1 The Acceleration of Scientific and Technological Growth for the Purpose of Achieving a New Quality of Life 5.2 Reindustrialization, Digitization, and the National Technological Initiative 6. Strategizing on the National, Regional, and Sectoral Economies 6.1 Development of Opportunities for Strategizing the Transition of the National Economy to the NIS.2 6.2 Practical Experiences in Strategizing Regional and Sectoral Development Conclusion Bibliography Appendix: New Ways Ahead for National Economy (Regarding Possible Russia’s Development Strategy)