Community generated scenarios

A method of developing a scenario about the future of a particular topic, the method comprising:

• developing, via a computer processing device, a first set of Internet search queries for continuous scanning of the Internet, wherein the search queries are designed to locate on the Internet at least an already-published scenario about the particular topic, wherein at least a portion of the topic includes treasury products or services;
• analyzing the already published scenario to identify at least a trend that underlies the already-published scenario, wherein the underlying trend causes the already published scenario to take place;
• developing a second set of Internet search queries designed to locate trend papers on the Internet containing information about the underlying trend, wherein the second set of Internet searches identifies trend papers associated with both treasury products related to the published scenario and trend papers related to external industries that affect the underlying trend in the already published scenario;
• identifying at least a change driver from the trend papers content, wherein the change driver acts as a derivative force on the underlying trend;
• developing, via a computer processing device, a third set of Internet search queries designed to locate change driver papers on the Internet, wherein the change driver papers provide information pertaining to the derivative effect of the change driver on the underlying trends of both the treasury products and the external industries;
• executing, continuously, the third set of Internet search queries designed to locate on the Internet information about the change driver and flagging the third set of Internet search queries that return the most new content about the change driver;
• generating a report that lists the flagged the third set of Internet search queries, publishing to a community of stakeholders information about the change driver;
• receiving from the community of stakeholders feedback regarding how the change driver will affect the topic in the future;
• monitoring, via a computer processing device, the feedback regarding how the change driver will affect the topic in the future and highlighting content that differs from the information obtained from the Internet about the change driver;
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• providing a forum through which the community of stakeholders develop the community-generated scenario around the highlighted content.

A computer program product for creating a scenario about the future of a topic, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions embodied therein, said computer-executable instructions comprising:

• first instructions configured to continuously scan the Internet for at least an already-published scenario about the future of the topic, wherein at least a portion of the topic includes treasury products or services;
• second instructions configured to identify at least an underlying trend in the already published scenario, wherein the underlying trend causes the already published scenario to take place;
• third instructions configured to develop a second scan of the underlying trend in the already published scenario using the Internet, wherein the second scan obtains trend papers from the Internet associated with both treasury products related to the published scenario and trend papers related to external industries that affect the underlying trend in the already published scenario;
• fourth instructions configured to identify at least a change driver from the trend papers content, wherein the change driver acts as a derivative force on the underlying trend
• fifth instructions configured to develop a third scan of the Internet wherein the third scan identifies change driver papers that are directed to the identified change drivers, wherein the change driver papers provide information pertaining to the derivative effect of the change driver on the underlying trends of both the treasury products and the external industries;
• sixth instructions configured to publish to a community of stakeholders the information about the change driver;
• seventh instructions configured to receive from the community of stakeholders feedback regarding how the change driver will affect the topic in the future;
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• eighth instructions configured to monitor the feedback regarding how the change driver will affect the topic in the future and highlighting content that differs from the information obtained from the Internet about the change driver.

A system for creating a community-generated scenario that provides a description of the future of a topic, the system comprising:

• a memory apparatus;
• an input apparatus, wherein the input apparatus is configured to receive a request to create the community-generated scenario for the topic;
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• a processing apparatus configured to:
• scan the Internet continuously for at least an already-published scenario about the future of the topic, wherein at least a portion of the topic includes treasury products or services;
• identify at least an underlying trend in the already-published scenario, wherein the underlying trend causes the already published scenario to take place;
• developing a second scan of the underlying trend in the already published scenario using the Internet, wherein the second scan identifies trend papers associated with both treasury products related to the published scenario and trend papers related to external industries that affect the underlying trend in the already published scenario;
• develop a third scan of the Internet, wherein the third scan identifies change driver papers containing information about the derivative effect of the change driver on the underlying trend;
• publish to a community of stakeholders the information about the change driver;
• receive from the community of stakeholders feedback regarding how the change driver will affect the topic in the future;
• monitor the feedback regarding how the change driver will affect the topic in the future and highlighting content that differs from the information obtained from the Internet about the change driver;
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• provide a forum through which the community of stakeholders develop the community-generated scenario around the highlighted content.