Trends Identified
The rise of the sharing economy
As platforms for home sharing and ride sharing have grown popular, the Centre for Strategic Futures (CSF) has been exploring the sharing economy and its implications for Singapore.
2017
Foresigth
Singapore, The Centre for Strategic Futures
THE RISE OF THE SUPER CMO
The CMO has been in the press a lot recently As the complexity of the marketing function rapidly increases, many CMOs are becoming nervous about the future — not only for their organisations, but also for their careers. However, a rising number of CMOs are attuned to how marketing is transforming, and are taking the necessary steps to ensure that they (and their organisations) can survive and thrive in the age of rampant disruption. This may be a long-term platform for radical change, or a shift to doing more transformational things on a smaller scale. It may be about rethinking the role technology plays, or shifting culture, or adding new capabilities. Whatever the nature and whatever the degree, almost all CMOs and their organisations are in some kind of Marketing Transformation, and if they’re not, they’re most likely thinking about it.
2019
The Ogilvy Consulting Trends for 2019
Ogilvy
The Rising Powers
China’s economic development will be one of the most significant factors in the future of the globalised economy. Other growing, or resurgent powers are likely to be of influence, with Brazil and possibly South Africa strengthening their status as regional powers.
2010
Global strategic trends - out to 2040
UK, Ministry of Defence
The Role of Multinational Corporations
Over the last 30 years, industrial production has been de-centralised and geographically distributed in an unprecedented manner. Countries, regions, and firms have specialised in particular stages of a product’s manufacture in response to competition, internationalising the markets for goods, services and labour. Such specialisation requires large-scale transportation of components, and this has been facilitated by technological advances in transport and communications, and trade liberalisation.227 MNCs and out-sourcing have emerged as integrating factors in the globalised economy, producing networks of interdependence between states that are unprecedented in scale and pervasiveness. This integrating effort is likely to persist out to 2040. The rise of state-owned enterprises (5 of the 10 largest MNCs are currently state- owned by the Chinese, Brazilian and Russian governments) is likely to continue, as is the proportion of MNCs based in emerging rather than developed economies.
2010
Global strategic trends - out to 2040
UK, Ministry of Defence
The Role of the Family
The movement of people in pursuit of economic opportunity and a secure environment will create more cosmopolitan population centres and change the character and utility of the family.
2010
Global strategic trends - out to 2040
UK, Ministry of Defence
The Role of the State
The state will remain the basic unit in international relations, although it will face challenges and the authority vested in it will vary. Most states will retain authority over the full spectrum of activities, whereas others, such as those in the EU, will voluntarily divest some to regional or supranational authorities. Others, such as some states in Africa, will have little practical authority. Transnational movements and groups will remain influential and are likely to further erode some aspects of state power. The varying levels of authority will complicate the ability of states to achieve and sustain multilateral partnerships and agreements.
2010
Global strategic trends - out to 2040
UK, Ministry of Defence
The Role of Think Tanks
Think tanks play a fundamental role in shaping policy agendas. They mobilise expertise and put forward evidence. They push for innovative change and they build networks and communities through which they nurture and spread ideas and catalyse action. The current environment of fast-paced transformations and increasingly complex and intertwined challenges at local, national and global levels would seem to create a perfect backdrop for think tanks to engage in dynamically, offering creative, pragmatic and actionable policy solutions on tangible issues.
2016
Shaping the future
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
The search for global solutions
Léo Apotheker, Co-CEO of the global business software maker SAP AG, which is based in Germany, says: ‘One of the characteristics of the current environment is that we’re actually dealing with more than one crisis. We have an economic downturn, but we also have an environmental crisis of significant proportions. Global warming has made its effects felt, and is no longer something to be disputed. We also have an energy crisis. And we have a scarcity of resources problem. There are nearly seven billion human beings on the planet and we need to feed them, and so we have a serious issue to address.´
2009
12th Annual global CEO Survey
PWC
The shale revolution in the United States is turning to exports
The resilience of shale gas and tight oil in the United States, cementing its position as the biggest oil and gas producer in the world even at lower prices.
2017
World energy outlook 2017 executive summary
International Energy Agency (IEA)
The silk highway
Coming decades will see
the world economy shift from west to east and north to south. Rapid income growth in Asia and, to a lesser extent, South America and Africa will see billions of people transition out of poverty and into the middle income classes. The powerhouses of the new world economy are China and India. This economic shift will build new export markets, trade relations, business models and cultural ties for Australia. Tourists, funds and ideas will increasingly ow out of Asian countries and into Australia’s economy and society. We are stepping into the Asian Century.
2012
Our future world - globla megatrends that will change the way we live
Australia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)