Home - Specific Media. Contextual - Specific Media. Anhold GfK Roper Nation Brands Index. SinoTech Group - Social Media Intelligence Experts. The 50 Most Innovative Companies. 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. China may have been the biggest worry, but as author Ted C. Fishman argued in his 2005 book, China Inc., it possessed a factory culture—it could imitate but not innovate. The battle is on. The extended Top 50 list is dominated by companies from Europe, Asia, and, in another first, South America (Petrobrás (PBR) of Brazil at No. 41). Traveler Types. Prizm > Market Segmentation Research, Tools, Market Segment Research, - Market Segments, Consumer Markets, Customer Segmentation Profiling. 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.
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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. Strategically Fast Companies Vs. Strategically Slow Companies. What is Dotmocracy? | Dotmocracy. Worldometers - real time world statistics. Futurist Andrew Zolli on Travel. Saved Items - Log In.
Vision. 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. East Asia and the Pacific, Asia, the Middle East and Africa are forecasted to record growth at rates of over 5% year, compared to the world average of 4.1%. The more mature regions Europe and Americas are anticipated to show lower than average growth rates. OTMPC Tourism Research. NCCS Organization Profile - Bryant Park Corporation. Research U.S.T.A. World Future Society.
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 Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society By Arnold Brown As we spend more of our social lives online, the definitions of relationships and families are shifting. Plus: Avatars and Virtual Immortality By William Sims Bainbridge Already, many people have information technology agents, but these agents are so simple we do not ordinarily think of them as such. Understanding Technological Evolution and Diversity By Kevin Kelly From the depths of the Amazon basin to the streets of Tokyo, technology is always evolving.
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