by Dean van Leeuwen | Feb 22, 2012 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
Cities are changing rapidly and they are going to have a greater influence on businesses in the future than even countries. Business leaders need to be understanding now what the implications are and what they need to be doing to capitalise on this emerging trend....
by Dean van Leeuwen | Feb 22, 2012 | Archive, Future Trends
Following a study of customers attitudes and behaviours, CitiBank declared that 75% of their customers had changed as a result of the economic turbulence of the past few years. The report’s finding was correct in one sense; the economic uncertainty is influencing...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Feb 14, 2012 | Archive, Future Trends
Businesses have not changed much over the past 100 years, the structures of work – including the office itself have remained stubbornly old fashioned, even though the nature of work has changed significantly. Most people today work in what is called the...
by Graeme Codrington | Feb 11, 2012 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
Ask new questions to new people Companies often don’t realise their research is stuck in a rut. They run the same focus groups and ask the same questions of the same people year after year. Broaden your horizons and ask new questions to new groups of people...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Feb 9, 2012 | Future Trends
Increasing global integration: Due mainly to explosive growth in many emerging markets, the world will experience massive economic growth over the next thirty or so years. It is predicted that by 2050, global real purchasing power will quadruple. As BRIC and N11...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jan 27, 2012 | Archive, Future Trends
Increasing global integration: Due mainly to explosive growth in many emerging markets, the world will experience massive economic growth over the next thirty or so years. It is predicted that by 2050, global real purchasing power will quadruple. As BRIC and...
