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Trends & Megatrends · 2008
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"Competing with analytics" - "the next billion dollar industry"
Last November, I released my "What Comes Next" trends perspective, outlining some of the significant trends that I believed would have the most impact in our longer term future…
Retail and consumer product innovation: a report from NYC
A few weeks ago, I keynoted an event for the Readers Digest Food & Entertainment group (who publish Everyday with Rachel Ray, and own and manage the popular online social network…
10 fundamental trends that don't change with the meltdown
You and I know that the headline on the left is going to run in newspapers and mainstream media one day. The BIG question is when. So what are the trends that will drive future…
7 Things to Do Right Now As the Upturn Begins!
I'm often providing detailed strategic guidance to senior executives and leaders on trends and the future, and certainly the economy has become a big part of what I address today…
Reaching the new travel consumer
I'm off to keynote Tourism Alberta -- and will speak to some 200+ tourism marketing professionals on trends within the sector. Alberta, located in Canada, has an extremely hot…
A truly staggering, transformative trend yet to unfold
It's been announced that I will be a keynote speaker at the World HealthCare Innovation & Technology Conference, to be held in Washington, DC in December. In particular, I'll be…
Computational analytics is another new plastic!
At my keynote to the US Association of Actuaries this week, and for a keynote to LOMA last week (an insurance association conference), I played a series of maps that showed the…
"65% of the kids in preschool today will work in jobs or careers that don't yet exist"
Whether I've got an audience of 3,000 people in Vegas, or a small CEO-level meeting of 20 people, I always open with the same observation. It's from an Australian study which…
Five more trends to define your future
My "infrastructure is the new plastic" post drew attention; at a keynote last week, I was asked, "what other areas are seeing the emergence of the 'next plastic?'" (It's a play on…
Bio-connectivity and the rapid emergence of new markets
In a keynote to a health care industry conference last week, I emphasized that in the high velocity economy, new business models, products, markets, and careers are appearing at a…
Infrastructure is the new plastic
In my "Where's the growth?" trends overview written a few months back, I noted that one of the key drivers for growth into the future will come from the massive spending to occur…
Where's the growth?
Gloom has set in on global markets. Volatility rages. Some organizations have gone into a mode of "aggressive indecision," deferring action while they try to figure out "what comes…
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