STEEPLED Category Scanning Checklist
Check horizon-scanning coverage across the eight STEEPLED categories: social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, ethical, and demographic.
Description
STEEPLED expands horizon scanning across social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, ethical and demographic categories.
STEEPLED expands horizon scanning across social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, ethical and demographic categories. Coverage supports breadth rather than truth of findings.1
The returned values include All categories covered, Categories covered, Missing categories. The How section below explains the calculation, input rules and interpretation.
When to use STEEPLED Category Scanning Checklist
Use STEEPLED Category Scanning Checklist when you need to evaluate the supplied records under the calculation and evidence rules below. No evidence discovery, quality assessment or weighted coverage is performed.
Define the question, evidence and scenario assumptions first. Supply the chosen score scales, time horizons or reference selection explicitly. Interpret generated text as a discussion template and screen labels as the stated rules.
How to use STEEPLED Category Scanning Checklist and understand its results
- Define the question, evidence and scenario assumptions first. Supply the chosen score scales, time horizons or reference selection explicitly. Interpret generated text as a discussion template and screen labels as the stated rules.
- Enter social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, ethical, demographic using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
- Read complete, coveredCategoryCount, missingCategories. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
- If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.
| Input field | Meaning | Value type; see rules below | Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| social | Social covered | boolean | Required |
| technological | Technological covered | boolean | Required |
| economic | Economic covered | boolean | Required |
| environmental | Environmental covered | boolean | Required |
| political | Political covered | boolean | Required |
| legal | Legal covered | boolean | Required |
| ethical | Ethical covered | boolean | Required |
| demographic | Demographic covered | boolean | Required |
Enter all eight boolean coverage fields. Return count, false category IDs in canonical order and complete flag.
covered=count(true); complete=covered=8 Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.
| Output field | Meaning | Value type |
|---|---|---|
| complete | All categories covered | boolean |
| coveredCategoryCount | Categories covered | integer; minimum: 0; maximum: 8 |
| missingCategories | Missing categories | list of string |
{
"input": {
"demographic": true,
"economic": true,
"environmental": true,
"ethical": false,
"legal": true,
"political": true,
"social": true,
"technological": true
},
"output": {
"complete": false,
"coveredCategoryCount": 7,
"missingCategories": [
"ethical"
]
}
}Limitations and assumptions
No evidence discovery, quality assessment or weighted coverage is performed.
Numeric inputs, where present, must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Missing fields without a declared default, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors. A successfully returned false flag is an evaluated outcome; its meaning is explained above.
Alternative or Complementary methods
Use Six Pillars Futures Thinking Methods Map: Six-pillar mapping checks that activities have been assigned to each of six supplied pillars. The caller provides the pillar vocabulary. For a complementary task, use Futures Literacy Capability Checklist: Futures literacy spans several capabilities rather than a single forecast skill. A declared rating scale makes this checklist transparent.
References
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STEEPLED Category Scanning Checklist — tool.io
Similar or alternative tools
- Six Pillars Futures Thinking Methods Map
Six-pillar mapping checks that activities have been assigned to each of six supplied pillars. The caller provides the pillar vocabulary.
- Futures Literacy Capability Checklist
Futures literacy spans several capabilities rather than a single forecast skill. A declared rating scale makes this checklist transparent.