Speaker, MC and Presenter on future of business workplaces and community. How is your business or community adapting to radically changing marketplaces and society? Speaker, writer and broadcaster Paul Wallbank has been at the forefont in helping businesses and communities find opportunities in this rapidly changing era for twenty years. Corporate, government and community groups have engaged Paul on a range of topics to explain how society and business is changing with the rise of digital industries, connected communites, fast broadband and pervasive computing. Paul’s presentations are lively, interactive and designed to both entertain and challenge audiences looking at how their companies, industries and communities are going to prosper in the connected century.
Some of the areas Paul covers are the workplace of the future, the rise of China, how the internet of machines is changing markets and what technologies like cloud computing, social media and Big Data mean to your business. Previous presentations have included; The future office. Worth reading? Alvin + heidi toffler {futurists} Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence. Women Increasingly Shaping The Future Of Business | Daniel Burrus. Since the dawn of human kind the business landscape was a man’s world.
Times are changing! Today, women are wielding more and more power on both sides of the business transaction. First, let’s look at some facts from the consumer side. In family purchases that involve two adults (a woman and a man) women make: 94% of the purchase decision on home furnishings92% of the purchase decision on family vacations91% of the purchase decision on home purchases80% of the purchase decision on healthcare60% of the purchase decision on family cars51% of the purchase decision on consumer electronics It’s clear that in many cases, women are not just influencing the market; they are the market. And perhaps even more surprising is that these statistics have changed very little over the past ten years. This brings us to the other side of the equation. As of June 2014, women hold 4.8% of Fortune 500 CEO positions and 5.0% of Fortune 1000 CEO positions. And this trend isn’t just in the US.
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