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If You Want to Design Consumer Shift – Let the Women Do It!
This is a guest blog by Jean Brittingham. Over the past few years, there has been a ‘quickening’ in the world of women as it relates to the health and future of our planet. This awakening has fuelled the emergence of grassroots communities as well as the significant increase in entrepreneurial activity among women that [...]
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U.S. Industrial Decline and Resurrection
We recently received a Sneak Preview of David Brin’s short, new graphic novel titled Tinkerers. The novel explores US Industrial Decline and Resurrection and is “an original tale of the near future”. Brin invites you to “imagine a nation that has lost its ability and desire to make things”. He walks you through one young [...]
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10 Big Green Ideas
(With this blog entry we welcome Catherine Otten back to Futurist.com, where she is now Director of Communications and Programs. Catherine is particularly committed to ideas that improve the environment, so in addition to her administrative duties we look forward to future blog entries like this.) Newsweek recently ran an article (in their Oct. 25 [...]
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Growing the Idaho Economy: Moving into the Future
I was born in the beautiful state of Idaho, and lived there the first decade of my life. Consequently, I always look forward to opportunities to work with consulting clients in Idaho as I feel an affinity for the place. This year one of my major projects involved assisting the State of Idaho Transportation Department [...]
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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 finding [...]
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Right 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 U.S. [...]
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Future 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 the slides [...]
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What 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 [...]
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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 the [...]
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Economic 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, [...]
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