Daily Inspiration: “Driveway dronepads. Automatic robo-lockers. These two innovations will forever change global supply chains!”

Right up my alley! Today I’m going to do a few posts around this concept.

First up? As you will see on my “20 Trends into 2030” summary (https://2030.jimcarroll.com), one of my main observations is that we are transitioning from an era in which we go and get ‘stuff’ – and increasingly, the ‘stuff’ comes to us.

Obviously, Amazon is driving this trend, but all around the trend there are fascinating developments occurring. Example: we will see the mainstreaming of local drone delivery tech in major urban centres faster than we might think.

In this particular photo, I’m in a Q&A season at a global congress in Muscat, Oman. I’m speaking to this issue – and talking about a world in which there is a lot of innovation with what we call ‘last mile delivery.’

I’m observing how one my clients – a luxury home builder in Houston – actually plans to include ‘delivery drone pads’ as a part of every driveway for future builds. That might be combined with automatic storage lockers which will automatically grab and store just-delivered packages for safe-keeping!

Crazy idea? Not at all! There are enormous sums of money going into every single aspect of delivery of products to our homes – groceries, consumer products and more.

This weekend, I will be keynoting the American Truck Dealers Association in Las Vegas, and one of the trends I will talk about? The fact that we are going to see fascinating developments at the back of freight trucks – with the arrival of all kinds of small delivery truck technology as a part of this trend.

Stay tuned! The future of supply chains is fast!