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New World Order. Trend map for 2010 and out to 2050. For the last few years Richard Watson of NowandNext has created annual trend maps based on city subway maps. This year he has been more ambitious, creating a highly detailed map with five time zones, ranging from 2010-2015 out to 2035-2050. For the previous three trend maps (shown at the bottom) I collaborated with Richard and we co-branded them with Future Exploration Network, however time pressures this year meant that I haven’t directly contributed to the 2010 map. It is still as rich and glorious as ever – spend some time delving into the trends ahead! – Ageing – Power shift Eastwards – Globalisation – Localisation – Digitalisation – Personalisation – Volatility – Individualism – Environmental change – Sustainability – Debt – Urbanisation Click on the images below for the original blog posts and full-size pdfs. 2009 Trend Map 2008 Trend Map 2007 Trend Map.
Com: Consumer trends and insights from around the world. The Future of Business: Drivers of Change and Skills to Hone. The University of Phoenix and Institute for the Future recently combined forces in order to produce the Future Work Skills 2020 report, examining what exactly propel's change and which skills we'll have to fine tune if we want to keep up.
Game Changers and Skills IFTF’s foundational forecasts in areas such as education, technology, demographics, work, and health were mashed up with the findings from one of the University of Phoenix's recent workshops. During this workshop, the Phoenix team engaged experts in a number of group exercises to think through key drivers of change and how these will impact workplace skill requirements.
According to the final report, the six major game changers are as follows: None of these trends come as a surprise, but they are in fact pushing along the workplace and employees from all shapes and sizes of business would do well to think about how they're shifting and changing daily routines. Get Social! — Or Not Continue reading this article: Global forces: An introduction - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Globalization. “I never think of the future,” Albert Einstein once observed.
“It comes soon enough.” Most business managers, confronted with the global forces shaping the business landscape, also assume that their ability to sculpt the future is minimal. They are right that they can do little to change a demographic trend or a widespread shift in consumer consciousness. But they can react to such forces or, even better, anticipate them to their own advantage. Above all, they ignore these forces at their peril. Business history is littered with examples of companies that missed important trends; think digitization and the music industry.
Yet this history also shines with examples of companies that spied the forces changing the global business scene and used them to protect or contribute to the bottom line. The fact is, trends matter. Video Why trends matter McKinsey director Peter Bisson explains the value of tracking global forces and how to build them into corporate strategy.
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