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Outlook 2011
Before we offer forecasts for 2011, let’s review how we did with Outlook 2010 Aging 2010 was indeed the final year of preparation for the age wave, but we made only modest progress in getting ready. The U.S. Health Care bill was the most positive step, as it included some needed adjustments to Medicare, and [...]
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Keynote Speech for SONAE Finov 2010 – Reflections
It was my favorite keynote speech of the year, and one we’ll leave up here for the holiday break, with Happy Holiday wishes to everyone. The event was FINOV 2010, an annual event of the SONAE company at which they honor individuals and teams for the innovations of the past year. This year the conference [...]
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Glen Hiemstra Keynote for IHOP Annual Meeting
This full-length speech video is a keynote that Glen did for the 50th Anniversary meeting of IHOP Franchise owners, held in 2008 in Hawaii. In this video Glen addresses long term future trends in the economy, technology, food service, demographics, and more. This was one of Glen’s favorite events, not just because he always loved [...]
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Travel to Mars in 39 days – Mars is closer because of SpaceX
If you could go to Mars in 39 days and return in the same amount of time, would you go? I would. The opportunity for someone, someday to do just that became a step closer to reality today, with the successful launch, orbit, re-entry, and recovery of the SpaceX Dragon spaceship. But, SpaceX and Dragon [...]
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Wrapping up 2010
I am flying home today from Charleston, South Carolina, after completing my final work assignment on the road in 2010. I must say I will be happy to be off the road for a while, and in particular to avoid the miserable experience of most U.S. airports these days. The work this week was a [...]
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Driving in 2020: Commuting Meets Computing
Driving in 2020: Commuting Meets Computing is an article that Glen wrote in the September-October 2000 issue of the The Futurist about the future of cars and technology. So far we’ve made it halfway to 2020 and his predictions don’t seem to be too far off. I think the auto industry may be a bit [...]
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The Futures Agency
We are proud to share Gerd Leonard’s announcement of his new virtual organization, The Futures Agency (TFA). TFA is based in Basel, Switzerland and is currently comprised of 15 amazing associates including myself. The Futures Agency offers a wide variety of services to clients worldwide. TFA’s main expertise is think-tank events, workshops and executive team [...]
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Future of Energy
I just finished a day of consulting with GHD Engineering in Kuala Lumpur (I am doing a long range planning project with them) and we discussed, among many trends, the future of energy. As I flew back and forth I was reading the recent book by James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren. In it he [...]
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Workforce Health 2010: New Deal, New Dividend
This week I am in San Diego to attend and provide a closing keynote to the Employee Health Care Conference, a program of the Conference Board and Coopers and Towers Watson. In February we presented the same event in New York. My topic is 21st Century Health Care. While health care reform was up in [...]
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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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