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In the past decade, as the U.S. was losing an estimated 2.4 million factory jobs to China, the Economic Policy Institute and other research organizations identified an alarming trend—alarming to Westerners, at least. The factories of South Korea, Taiwan, and China were making their way up the global value chain, from the sneakers, toys, and T-shirts they had produced in earlier years to personal computers, consumer electronics gear, household appliances, and even cars. For the West, the silver lining was this: Asia's high-tech products were still generally regarded as inferior knockoffs of items designed in the U.S. and other so-called knowledge economies.
Analyze your current customers to understand who is purchasing your product or service. With insights into which types of consumers are buying your products, you can refine your strategies according to marketplace demands. Learn More Reveal your customer’s lifestyles and behaviors to create a clear and comprehensive picture of their likes and dislikes.
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In business, there’s a speed gap: It’s the difference between how important a firm’s leaders say speed is to their competitive strategy and how fast the company actually moves. That gap is significant regardless of region, industry, company size, or strategic emphasis. Organizations fearful of losing their competitive advantage spend much time and many resources looking for ways to pick up the pace. Paradoxically, they should try slowing down instead. In our study of 343 businesses (conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit), the companies that embraced initiatives and chose to go, go, go to try to gain an edge ended up with lower sales and operating profits than those that paused at key moments to make sure they were on the right track. What’s more, the firms that “slowed down to speed up” improved their top and bottom lines, averaging 40% higher sales and 52% higher operating profits over a three-year period.
Need Speed? Slow Down
Have you ever taken part in a decision-making meeting with many people and felt frustrated with the lack of progress? Have you ever attended a forum or workshop where dozens of people brainstormed a long list of ideas, but there was no sensible way to collectively prioritize all the results and recognize the best suggestions? I created Dotmocracy and the Dotmocracy Handbook to provide a solution for these kinds of challenges. Dotmocracy is a transparent, equal opportunity, and participatory large group decision-making tool. Dotmocracy is a simple method for recognizing points of agreement among a large number of people.
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Analyze your current customers to understand who is purchasing your product or service. With insights into which types of consumers are buying your products, you can refine your strategies according to marketplace demands. Learn More Reveal your customer’s lifestyles and behaviors to create a clear and comprehensive picture of their likes and dislikes.
UNWTO's Tourism 2020 Vision forecasts that international arrivals are expected to reach nearly 1.6 billion by the year 2020. Of these worldwide arrivals in 2020, 1.2 billion will be intraregional and 378 million will be long-haul travellers. The total tourist arrivals by region shows that by 2020 the top three receiving regions will be Europe (717 million tourists), East Asia and the Pacific (397 million) and the Americas (282 million), followed by Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
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Welcome. This page showcases recent articles published by the World Future Society and THE FUTURIST that are reserved for members only. Members can also search THE FUTURIST Archives free for material going back to 1992. We hope you will take a moment to learn about our exclusive member benefits and consider joining, today. March-April 2011 Special Section: Health Care
