Business leaders must spend more time thinking about the future. To help make this a habit, I have developed what I call the “Future 15”--a policy of taking 15 minutes every week to think about the future. To make the habit simple, I advise my clients--and I encourage you--to follow the 6 “F’s”: Every Friday [...]
As a futurist, I frequently speak to my audiences about the importance of humility when contemplating the future. In the same spirit of humility, I admit that there are many other outstanding futurists who do work similar to my own. Here are five fantastic foreign futurists (in alphabetical order) who have helped me see and [...]
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Late last year, the Economist had a wonderful article on the construction industry. The most poignant point was that among all major industries, the construction industry has experienced the slowest rate of increase in productivity since the Second World War--less than 1 percent! (By contrast the agriculture industry experienced a 1600 percent increase in productivity [...]
Last December, I wrote that “2017 will be the year the future takes root.” In between all of the presidential tweets, the catastrophic rain storms, fires and hurricanes, and the plethora of sexual harassment scandals, I will forgive you if you didn’t keep track of my predictions. So let me recap what you may have [...]
Emerging and converging technologies are reshaping the insurance industry, to the point that it may hardly be recognizable in a decade’s time. The business of insuring against risk is being transformed by a variety of trends and technologies. Here are a few examples. Drones If you’ve seen footage of the aftermath of the recent flooding [...]
Buckminster Fuller, the noted architect, inventor, and visionary, once said: “We are called to be architects of our future, not its victims.” His advice is apropos for every business, but it is especially so for the fashion industry which is poised to see more change in next five years than it has experienced in the [...]
(Editor’s note: These predictions are offered in the spirit of light-hearted fun and are not intended to be taken literally. Each merely reflects a broader trend that readers can expect to see, experience or read about in the coming year. For a more realistic perspective on each trend, click on the embedded links. Enjoy!) Global [...]
In between all of the presidential tweets, catastrophic rain storms, fires and hurricanes, sexual harassment scandals, and Bitcoin mania, it is sometimes hard to remember that technological change is accelerating and, as it does, the world continues to evolve. Over the past year, a number of developments have occurred but below are ten which I [...]
It can seem like major changes appear out of nowhere, but disruptive trends and technologies usually give us warning–if we’re paying attention. Most major advancements begin at the edges, outside of where we’re focused. Sometimes they stay there for decades, as 3D printing and virtual reality did, and sometimes they rapidly accelerate and reset entire [...]
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