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Trends & Megatrends · 2014
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25 Trends for 2025 (Can you imagine how different your future might be ten years from now?)
On January 3, 2025, Jim wrote a post that looks at the accuracy - and lack thereof - of the 25 predictions he made in this post in 2014 about the year 2025. Read it here. At this…
Speed and agility in the retail sector
The rate of change in the retail sector is going from 'fast to furious' if you pardon the cliche. I'll be outlining this issue when I speak to a small group of folks in the retail…
Augmented Reality and the World of Retail...
Earlier this year, I was featured in the UK's Retail NewsAgent 125th anniversary publication, with a variety of comments on trends that will impact the retail space, such as this…
Trend Report: The Future of Autonomous Vehicle Technology
There can't be a more exciting industry in the world today than what is happening with the marriage of automotive/transport technology to Silicon Valley. And it's a a trend I've…
Nomadic workers and the future of careers
Here's a video clip from a recent keynote -- during the Q&A, I was asked by one member of the audience about what happens to careers in a world in which 'the future belongs to…
A really cool keynote summary!
Earlier this week, I was a keynote speaker at HealthAchieve 2014, one of the largest healthcare conferences in North America. My talk was centered around the theme of 'Healthcare…
Video: The new acquisition of knowledge and the outsourcing of gaming!
In this clip, I'm doing the opening keynote for the American Society of Testing Professionals -- and I am speaking about how the new generation of students acquires and ingests…
Video: "A blistering page of innovation..."
Back in June, I was invited to open The BigM, a major manufacturing conference held in Detroit; I followed President Obama's Treasury Secretary, Penny Pritzker on stage. There…
FutureVision’s Day-One Visionaries: Carroll, Thompson, Stone
A week ago, I had the pleasure to open the FutureVision, "an invitation-only event designed for the industry’s retail leaders, is an exclusive relationship-building event packed…
The Next 90 in HealthCare
The Ontario Hospital Association -- based in Canada -- is celebrating it's 90th year. As part of that, it arranged for a number of experts to comment on the future of healthcare…
Trend : The impact of crowdfunding / crowdsourcing on R&D
GE is running an article, A Fresh Perspective from Many Minds, that explores the impact of crowdfunding on the world of R&D. I've long been pointing out that such efforts are…
Trend: Could the Energy Industry be "MP3'd?"
If anything, the year 2015 is going to be the year of 'continuous business model disruption.' It's happening everywhere. The CEO of a major US energy company hired me to do a…
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