Future: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Future

  • a contract to deliver a commodity at a future date.
  • Also known as Futures Contract

Wiktionary Definition for: Future

  • # time : The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
  • #Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
  • Ex:''There is no future in dwelling on the past.
  • #(''grammatical terminology''): verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future. future tense
  • #(''finance'') ''(plural)'' commodities Commodities or stocks bought or sold with the understanding that they will be delivered at a date beyond the current one.
  • Having to do with or occurring in the future.
  • Ex:''Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.''
  • feminine of futur
  • feminine plural of futuro

Additional Resources

The Future of Brands: A Chapter From Brands and Branding
The future of brands is inextricably linked to the future of business. In fact, the future of brands is the future of business if it is to be about sustainable wealth creation. This article examines some future trends and predictions, both in business and in broader society, and looks at...
Tags: Marketing, Branding, Brand
White papers 2004-04-01
Why Is Forecasting Important To An Organization?
Forecasting is the process by which companies ponder and prepare for the future. It involves predicting the future outcome of various business decisions. This includes the future of the business as a whole, the future of an existing or proposed product or product line, and the future of the industry...
Tags: Forecasting, Associated Content, Sales Force Management, Sales
White papers 2007-04-12
Future Sales Trends
The author of this article explains that the planning in the present helps us to prepare for the future. Plan ahead for trends and be better prepared for the future. It also explains few selling trends that will play a major role in your sales success today and in the...
Tags: Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy
White papers 2003-01-01
Futurework 2020: Phase Two - Presenting the Future of the Workplace
This paper shares a glimpse into the future of the workplace with others. But it is important to understand that this is not a script, but merely a guidebook, to encourage people to take what they learn from these experts' scenarios and apply it to their own plans for the...
Tags: Workplace, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2001-06-06
Change Your World
Life is unpredictable and so is the future. One does not know what lies at the turn of the road. Hence, it is essential to devise effective plans to secure future. It is important to have a goal in mind so that one works towards it in an efficient manner....
Tags: Center For Association Leadership, Life
White papers 2000-09-01
The Frontiers of Convertibles Financing An Economic and Legal Perspective on Litigating Future Priced Securities
This paper examines the asset class of future-priced securities, a financial innovation that can, under the right circumstances, provide a lifeline to otherwise viable companies experiencing liquidity constraints. The authors argue that the market underperformance and corporate failures frequently associated with the issuance of future-priced securities cannot in themselves be...
Tags: Security, Convertibles, Liquidity
White papers 2003-07-30
Eight Future Catalysts
With an understanding of the past, one can gain a better understanding of the possibilities of the future about what might happen. Once the possibilities are identified, one can better choose to make the desired possibilities become realities while preventing the undesirable from happening. On the basis of past experience...
Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Catalyst, Possibility
White papers 2003-01-01
SK TELECOM CO LD (GDR) - Future Plans Guidance.
Future Plans Guidance Future Business and Management Plans Fair Disclosure *The information provided below concern future plans and may be subject to change. 1. Matters covered by future...
Tags: SK Telecom Co.
Research articles 2007-01-29
Clarification - Correction Notice
As a Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI spokesman, Paul Bresson is not involved in the investigation of Future Electronics. Bresson was speaking about the nature of evidence in general, making no connection between the Future case and the other cases referenced in the article. The FBI cannot comment on the...
Tags: FBI
Research articles 2000-04-10
EarthLink Banks on Broadband for Its Future.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Nov. 22--ATLANTA--EarthLink has looked into the future and the future is broadband. Nov. 22--ATLANTA--EarthLink has looked into the future and the future is broadband.
Tags: bank, broadband, EarthLink Inc.
Research articles 2000-11-21
Zilog swaps Pioneer for future: co. signs exclusive NA deal with Canada's future - Distribution - distributor agreement with Future Electronics
San Jose-based Zilog Inc. has awarded an exclusive North American distributor agreement to Future Electronics of Montreal for its advanced embedded line of semiconductors--dropping Pioneer-Standard Electronics Inc. of Cleveland.
Research articles 2002-09-30
Assessing Own Policies
Boards of directors, senior executives, product planning teams, financial analysts and many others are constantly faced with trying to predict the future. While predicting the future is difficult, assessing the impact of future events is an ongoing activity of many people in a wide range of organizations. In the session...
Tags: Hospital, Healthcare, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
Case studies 2001-01-01
Frontview Mirror
By learning how to analyze trends that will shape the future, your company can organize in ways that maximize opportunities and mitigate dangers. The best way to start preparing for the future is to look at current world trends. Once a company identifies uncertainties that could affect its key business,...
Tags: Penton Media Inc.
White papers 2003-01-01
Reinventing The Role Of Information And Communications Technologies In Education
This paper sketches a vision, not a prediction, of how emerging ICT might shape the evolution of teaching, learning, and schooling. A prediction portrays the future as like a train track leading us to a predestined outcome for which one must prepare. In contrast, a forecast depicts the future as...
Tags: Education, Harvard University, Trunk, Prediction, Branch, Strategy, Management
White papers 2007-01-01
U.S. Bancorp Foundation Awards $10,000 Grant to Mapping Your Future for Its Web Site
MINNEAPOLIS -- The U.S. Bancorp Foundation has awarded a $10,000 grant to Mapping Your Future[TM], Inc. MYF. Mapping Your Future serves more than 2,700 postsecondary schools and is located on the web at www.mapping-your-future.org.
Tags: Mapping, U.S. Bancorp, Web, Web site
Research articles 2006-11-16
Future Strategies: Forget The Past And Aim Your Future Strategies Towards A Clear End Result
Business strategies mostly founder on the same rock - that man cannot foretell the future. No need a crystal ball to make more accurate predictions. The most important step is to understand the present - what's actually happening right now. 'Economics' is the growing rage in marketing - fitting products...
Tags: Clear, Thinking Managers, Strategy, Management
White papers 2004-12-01
The Future of Brazil Depends On Its Commodities
Kyle Homan submits: What does Brazil’s future look like?  Since Brazil is extremely dependent on commodities, the answer lies within the future prices of select commodities.  The country has the potential to feed China in the future, and with recent oil discoveries off the coast of Rio de...
Tags: Emerging Markets, Energy
External links 2008-08-12
Managing Toward the "Ideal Future"
Managing Toward the "Ideal Future"The future?Both the ideal future and the expected future are red herrings. We need to aim for a future that doesn't take us by surprise, and you don't get that by starting in the present and extrapolating out into the future (both ideal and expected futures...
Tags: ideal future, Managing
Discussion threads 2007-11-13
Last Days of the Club?
Strange at this might seem, the future is on the walls of the New York Stock Exchange: a classical future, a prosperous future inspired by fashionable columns, enlightened art and a trading floor that is, what can I say, about as idiosyncratic but as fund Strange at this might seem,...
Tags: New York Stock Exchange
Research articles 2002-02-01
Distribution System of the Future
This is a new effort to consider what future electric distribution systems might look like as the density of Distributed Generation. Current planning procedures probably will not be practically effective as the density of DG increases to the 20%. One key to assuring the value of DG as an important...
Tags: U.S. Department Of Energy
White papers 2003-01-28
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