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Gallup’s World Poll reveals new findings on the “great global dream” and how it will affect the rise of the next economic empire.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clifton | Source: “Gallup Management Journal” | Subjects: Economics, International, Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

Scenarios are now a part of every successful manager’s toolkit. This book is the first comprehensive guide to the latest developments in scenario thinking written by today’s leading practitioners in the field. -Napier Collyns.

Content: Book | Authors: Liam Fahey, Robert M. Randall | Subjects: Management, Trends / Analysis

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The Plural of Anecdote is Not Data.

Content: Quotation | Source: “Feld Thoughts” | Subjects: Knowledge, Trends / Analysis

The basis of trust may be changing. It used to be based on reciprocity and as such was fragile and personal. Because of technology, trust is now based on reputation among people who don’t know each. It is both less personal and more robust.

Content: Article | Author: Philip Evans | Source: “Boston Consulting Group (BCG)” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

Marc Andreessen discusses the difference between “spaces” (or trends) and markets, focusing on the Web 2.0 trend.

Content: Article | Author: Marc Andreessen | Source: “Pmarca” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Trends / Analysis

Converging trends are creating a new technology ecosystem that will address concerns ranging from hardware, applications and infrastructure to systems development and worker enablement. Net result: Enterprise agility will be the next basis of competition.

Content: Article | Author: Kishore S. Swaminathan | Source: “Outlook Journal (Accenture)” | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

The open source model can play an important role in innovation, but know its limitations.

Content: Article | Author: Nicholas G. Carr | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Market economies need regulation to facilitate fair competition and to protect consumers, the environment, and vulnerable workers from unfair practices. Too often, however, regulation has the opposite effect: hindering competition and protecting some groups at the expense of others, which is what happens when, for example, minimum-wage regulations limit the creation of jobs for low-skilled workers. A report by the McKinsey Global Institute highlights the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Diana Farrell, Scott C. Beardsley | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subjects: International, Trends / Analysis

When this [Web 2.0] model allows many new ideas, then the cost of solving problems and of generating content will go down. It also means the cost and the need for filtering will go up. You will need to filter not only for what’s good versus what’s bad but also for what fits your strategy. Not every idea will work given your asset base, your … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: “MarketingProfs” | Subjects: Knowledge, Problems / Solutions, Trends / Analysis

Where is the intersection between personal meaning and business value? Unless we engage in a conversation about what meaning is, we can’t hope to integrate it into our work processes, goals, or solutions.

Content: Article | Author: Nathan Shedroff | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Trends / Analysis

Over the past five years, companies invested a lot in IT just to stay in place. Although CRM, ERP, inventory control, and other applications generated huge efficiencies in core processes and practices, businesses are seeing diminishing financial returns from these improvements as competitors race to match incremental gains and customers reap most of the value in lower prices or improved service. As a result, strategic … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Chunka Mui | Source: “Optimize Magazine” | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

Content: Article | Author: Chris Anderson | Source: “Wired” | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

The term “hydrogen economy” is the title of a recent book [Rifkin, 2002], but the concept of using hydrogen as fuel for transportation systems has been advocated by environmentalists and others for at least three decades. There is no universally accepted definition of the “hydrogen economy,” but it is generally viewed as the replacement of the vast majority of petroleum fuels used by transportation vehicles … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert E. Uhrig | Source: “Tau Beta Pi” | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

It’s not just weak organisations that spiral into decline and fail. Managerial arrogance and inflexibility can bring even great companies to their knees.

Content: Article | Authors: Jagdish Sheth, Rajendra Sisodia | Source: “European Business Forum (EBF)” | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

We are creating a society of just two classes. The first and larger class will spend incredible amounts of time to save money. The second will spend incredible amounts of money to save time.

Content: Quotation | Source: “Through the Loop Consulting Ltd” | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis

The shift toward tacit (complex) interactions upends everything we know about organizations. Since the days of Alfred Sloan, corporations have resembled pyramids, with a limited number of tacit employees (managers) on top coordinating a broad span of workers engaged in production and transactional labor. Hierarchical structures and strict performance metrics that tabulate inputs and outputs therefore lie at the heart of most organizations today.

But the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trends / Analysis

So much of what we hear and what we’re taught turns out to be false on closer scrutiny. Whether it is expert advice, what you read in the paper, or what your mother told you, if it is important, take the time to figure out for yourself whether it is really true.

Content: Quotation | Author: Steven D. Levitt | Sources: “800-CEO-READ (8CR)”, “Business 2.0” | Subjects: Decision Making, Trends / Analysis

The failure of the Cancun trade talks is not the only sign that globalization could be running out of steam. This new report by Deloitte Research identifies 10 forces that could reverse the trend toward global economic and political unity. This report points to warnings about globalization’s future by experts on trade, politics and military affairs. Until recently, naysayers about globalization have been in the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Dwight Allen, Michael E. Raynor | Source: “Deloitte” | Subjects: International, Trends / Analysis

Just as information workers surpassed physical laborers in economic importance, Pink claims, the workplace terrain is changing yet again, and power will inevitably shift to people who possess strong right brain qualities. His advocacy of “R-directed thinking” begins with a bit of neuroscience tourism to a brain lab that will be extremely familiar to those who read Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open last year, but … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Daniel Pink | Subjects: Personal Development, Trends / Analysis