Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Such trends are more than shiny objects; they’re manifestations of sustained changes within an industry sector, society, or human behavior. Trends help us forecast the future.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

” FYI: The trend of “best year ever” was originated more than a decade ago by the late, great Jim Rohn. words for 2013 – I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. I have more projects and opportunities than I can say grace over. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Seminar Open-book Customer Loyalty Books 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. Last year, Nature reported that Flu Trends overestimated by 50% the peak Christmas season flu of 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” It’s a hard topic to study because of all of the intangibles that go into convincing and persuading others to bring resources to your innovation projects. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities?

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). Workplaces are buffered from some societal trends, but they are not immune. Alston, the UN Study). Research: World-wide eco-anxiety on the rise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Field Sales Revenue Trends. Inside Sales Roles.

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Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1. Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

The Federal Reserve’s forecast (made in December 2013) is for a rate of 6.3% Others are even gloomier: Trading Economics projects unemployment rates above 6% for the next couple of decades. Using an alternative model for projecting job growth, we see an entirely different scenario, one in which the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As customer expectations are constantly changing, it is ever more critical that businesses are in tune with those trends. For example, in a climate of fear and micromanagement, a sales person might focus on the projected revenue of a prospective client, the anticipated results and closing date that were promised to the boss.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1. Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Taking a lead from the fashion industry where celebrities like Giorgio Armani are influential trend-setters, Italcementi targets "archistars", rock-star architects whose ideas influence the behaviors and choices of the mass of architects. Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

in 2013 and 8.9% As we reported in our book, in China, annual per-capita income is projected to rise, on average, from about $4,400 in 2010 to $12,300 in 2020; in India, it will increase from $1,500 to $4,400. When it comes to China and India, we at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) urge you to bet in favor of both.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The Silver Bullet Fix (Project Syndicate). “No Five Trends to Ignore in 2013 (Inc.). The secret to the campaign’s staying power, suggests Ogilvy and Mather Japan’s executive director, Yasuyuki Katagi, is that, year after year, the message is always the same: “At Christmas you eat — chicken.”. TIME-SINK CITY.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., An array of other housing innovators, aging experts, architects, and homebuilders — including developers of senior-only communities — are contributing to the trend. age segregation is often as ingrained as racial segregation.

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Education Absenteeism Efficiency Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. Finally, I believe these challenges have also directly influenced the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

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Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

The campaign was endorsed by The White House and Bill Gates, generated more than 800 media features and mentions in outlets like CNN, Washington Post , and CBS News, and our hash tag trended No. This is perhaps the most challenging (and exciting) element of a project like #GivingTuesday. 1 on Twitter. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Third, their external focus keeps everyone aware of emerging trends in the economy and the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Between recent high-profile hires from the fashion and watch industries to the rumored 18-karat gold Apple Watch, some observers are fretting about the company’s trend toward catering to the highly profitable 1%, possibly at the expense of the rest of us. Will Geniuses be replaced with trend-setting fashion consultants?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

In 2013, BusinessWeek quoted Google X director Astro Teller as saying, “If there’s an enormous problem with the world, and we can convince ourselves that over some long but not unreasonable period of time we can make that problem go away, then we don’t need a business plan.” The comparison to the PC is telling.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

“We are taking action now to reverse this trend, just as organizations took measures to reduce environmental pollution after the industrial revolution.” They organized the network around 7,500 open communities representing the various projects that required collaboration. Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With every project, they are spreading the word through their networks, and the connection to #GivingTuesday becomes more valuable. On Twitter, the hashtag trended to number one on Tuesday, November 27. Everyone connected with #GivingTuesday is happy to see excitement growing as our next big day –December 3, 2013 – grows near.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

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Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Later, as a project officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, he channeled resources to risk mitigation schemes that allowed banks to better serve small farmers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Our most satisfying work comes about when we’re playing offense, working on projects that we ourselves initiate. If you start a project and leave it unfinished, you’re bound to think about it more frequently than after it’s done. Own your time. ” (Note: Hemingway followed the same strategy.).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend. The region has piqued executives’ interest, as it benefits from improving business conditions, demand for infrastructure projects, and a strong demographic profile. Mercedes-Benz and Skoda have recently expanded in the country with new showrooms and models.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. Finally, I believe these challenges have also directly influenced the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

The campaign was endorsed by The White House and Bill Gates, generated more than 800 media features and mentions in outlets like CNN, Washington Post , and CBS News, and our hash tag trended No. This is perhaps the most challenging (and exciting) element of a project like #GivingTuesday. 1 on Twitter. The results?

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Media Incubator Download COO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

All of this has culminated in the new trend of eliminating vacation policies, so that employees can make work-life balance decisions that work for them. American workers already forfeit a large percentage of their existing paid time off (Project Time Off says it was 169 million days in 2013.)

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Policies Creativity Report Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

In e-commerce, advances in tracking and analytics have made it possible for retailers to understand what individual customers are doing before they make a purchase, and to gather and analyze hundreds and thousands of data points to identify trends. Brick-and-mortar stores haven’t had the same advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As a result, the United States experienced five years of the lowest growth in health care costs ever in the 2009-2013 period — although an uptick in the rate in 2014 raises questions about what it will take to contain costs on a sustainable basis. Insight Center. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Those attributes help us identify a set of likely trends on the horizon. Then, we put each trend through what we call The Five Questions: Where/how are people wasting their time?

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Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing System 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 2, 2013

Attempting projects without the proper resources to do the job well. Changing trends, upon which I could not capitalize but which others could. Not being able to spot, create or capitalize upon emerging trends at their beginnings. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Circumstances Beyond Our Control.

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