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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 [...]
Full StoryEconomic 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 [...]
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, [...]
Full StoryHow 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 for [...]
Full StoryInnovate our way out of recession
This is a google alert for an amazing piece in Business Week, based on interviews with me, Glen Hiemstra, and a few other innovators and thinkers, by a terrific writer, Damian Joseph. Damian offers an overview of the need for and power of innovation, followed by a list of 20 innovations for the next 10 [...]
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