Your new vocabulary for 2017? “Destructive, impulsive unpredictability,” “yottabit pipelines” and “connected energy” … and more!

As the wild year of 2016 draws to a close, and 2017 arrives, what can you expect in the coming year?  Rather than a list of predictions for 2017, let’s simply focus on some of the words and phrases that will become a bigger part of your life next year and years beyond.

The big phase for 2017? “Destructive, impulsive unpredictability.” Get used to it: and align your strategies, capabilities, skill sets and business plans to deal with this reality as it comes about. It will happen a lot — and a new kind of volatility will be the new normal. I think the early stock-market driven euphoria will prove to be just that…..

Beyond that, what can you expect? Accelerated change! If you do anything in 2017, expand your mind and learn about the things that you don’t know. After all, “you don’t know what you don’t know, until you try and do something you’ve never done before. Then you know!”

Here are some of the phrases that indicate what I’m watching carefully in 2017, and advising my global blue chip clients on. Watch this space in 2017, since I’ll be certain to be speaking, writing and blogging about them.

• smart buildings
• robotic hype cycles
• scientific exponentiation
• virtualized hospitals
• intelligent infrastructure
• vertical farming
• connected energy
• prognostic diagnostic maintenance
• extended experience partnerships
• predictive loss mangement
• shared mobility
• generational velocity
• yottabit pipelines
• small prototyping
• magnified cynicism
• diversity of ideas
• sketch to scale
• hypecycle divergence
• crowd-thinking
• accelerated disruption
• digital garage innovation
• mind-into-matter manufacturing
• upside down idea generation
• innovation inertia
• experiential capital
• iterative innovation
• avoidance failures
• predictive storytelling
• bionic construction methodologies
• 4d printing
• end of runway manufacturing