ArchivesTag : economy
The Future of Outsourcing
Recently I had the chance to sit down with Kate Vitasek, author of the new book, Vested Outsourcing, with Mike Ledyard and Karl Manrodt. Outsourcing is a controversial but fundamental business activity – as Kate notes Peter Drucker used to say “Do what you do best and outsource the rest,” and the idea of [...]
Full StoryRight on Economic Growth
Now and then it is nice, as a futurist, to see that something you forecast and expected is coming to fruition, especially when what you said ran counter to a lot of common wisdom. Two economic announcements today confirm what I was saying about Microsoft in the middle of last year, and about the [...]
Full StoryFuture of Retail – Google alerts for Glen Hiemstra Keynote Speech and Panel for RSPA Annual Trade Show
On Monday I was in Las Vegas to address the annual meeting of the Retail Service Providers Association, and to moderate a panel on “thinking outside the retail box.” The RSPA issues these press notices and articles. As soon as I can I will get a summary of my talk posted here, and [...]
Full StoryWhat Comes After the Great Recession?
My year as a consulting futurist and speaker began on January 8, 2009 with a speech on future trends for Cobalt, a company that does websites and other marketing and computer services for the auto-dealer community, historically General Motors dealerships. They obviously face some big challenges in 2009.
In that speech I said, for the [...]
Economic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery
Yesterday, on April 1, 2009, not as an April Fools Day gag but as a serious forecast I posted my Quarterly Forecast for 2009 Q2, titled “Economic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery.” As far back as my 2009 annual Outlook article and video for 2009, I have run counter to the prevailing wisdom on [...]
Full StoryEconomic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery: Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q2 2009
By Glen Hiemstra, March 31, 2009
The world economy, mired in recession, will reach a turn-around point sooner than expected. However, anyone waiting to get back to doing what they were doing before the recession will be disappointed.
As I said in my first speech this year, on January 8, 2009, to the Cobalt company, [...]
How Long Will the Recession Last?
A topic on everyone’s mind is how long the current recession will last? That this recession is steeper and deeper than any since the early 1980’s, and it looks now like any since the Depression, is becoming fact. But when do we turn around?
I have been addressing this question and the economic meltdown [...]
65,000 is a lot for one day
Readers know that I am pretty relentless in finding how and why things are going to work in the future. Current realties make that a challenge. Today’s announcement by Caterpillar, Home Depot, Sprint, Texas Instruments, and others of total job cuts, just today, Monday, of 65,000 is stark.
It means that time [...]
Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra: Outlook 2009
Outlook 2009
Watch the video of my Outlook for 2009 as a futurist, speaker, and consultant.
This is my final blog entry of 2008, before we take a couple of weeks off. I am cautiously optimistic about 2009. This may surprise you. Here is why.
Future of EEE – Economy, Energy, Environment
Economy: When I [...]
Media futurist and Outlook 2009
I’ll be writing my Outlook 2009, to accompany the video already up. But getting a head start, Swiss-based media futurist Gerd Leonhard just linked to it as his blog, mediafuturist.
You can get a look at Outlook 2009 here, in our upgraded video pages.
Bottom line: 2009 may be just a bit better than what we [...]
