Trends Identified
Media an culture
The digital shift is having a profound and sometimes disruptive effect on creative ecosystems. New types of intermediaries between creators and consumers have emerged in the value chain. Co-creation of knowledge and culture through online social networks is a "game-changing" social innovation that empowers citizens and has the potential to address societal challenges. Users become ever more expert in creating their own user-generated content, as new cohorts of young people become adept at shaping and exploiting cultural and creative content through social media. Social media is poised to become the biggest component of mainstream media, in many cases at the expense of editorial media. Consumers’ appetite for new cultural formats and media – and their capacity to be active actors in this transformation - will depend on their ability to embrace the opportunities brought about by technology.
2015
Preparing the Commission for future opportunities - Foresight network fiches 2030
European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS)
Mechanised Truth - Centralised routes to corporate truth-building
Truth, trust, believability – all under serious pressure in a consumer landscape developing a healthy disrespect for traditional arbiters of truth and authority, and where claim and counter-claim on any given issue mean that settled, mainstream truths are in short supply. Enter new, centralised routes to commercial truth- building that herald a future in which tangible, mechanised truths more robustly challenge emotionally-charged “alternative facts” and meet a significant need for corporate transparency.
2018
Trending 2018
Foresight Factory
Measuring and communicating success
In a complex and rapidly changing world, we were interested in understanding which areas CEOs want to better measure and which areas they want to better communicate to the multiple stakeholders who interact with their organisations. We found that the key metrics CEOs would like to improve are the ones traditionally seen as ‘harder’ drivers of business success like innovation and risks, while the areas they want to better communicate are emotional, ‘softer’ issues around values and purpose (see Figure 15). But customers are seeking information about both the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ drivers of business success. Indeed, real-time dashboards created and managed by users themselves are becoming feasible, raising expectations for more fresh and relevant information and ways of viewing it. Ultimately the CEO must deal with matters of the head and the heart, the rational and the emotional. Our research suggests that there is much room to improve on both the assessment and communication of key business areas, including of course, core financial data.
2016
19th Annual global CEO survey
PWC
Measured Innovation
Innovation is shifting from “eureka” to an institutional discipline Innovation has long been accepted as an important driver of modern economic development. From economist Joseph Schumpeter’s work in the 1940’s1 to Clayton Christensen’s more recent research2 to conventional wisdom about technology’s meteoric impact on our daily lives. Corporations have taken note – recognising that effective innovation can create new market value, drive efficiencies, extend the lifecycle of products and services, and help launch new business models. Emerging technology is a continuing source of potential for innovation in business, and the CIO is the executive to deliver on that opportunity. Sounds great. But how?
2012
Tech Trends 2012-Elevate IT for digital business
Deloitte
Maturation of/greater access to innovative technologies (e.g., automation, cloud, D&A)
56% of the respondents view this as a positive trend
2017
Adoption of intelligent automation does not equal success. 4Q 2017 KPMG Global Insights Pulse Survey Report.
KPMG
Maturation of/greater access to innovative technologies
62% of over 1,000 KPMG sourcing advisors answered that this trend had a positive impact on user organizations.
2015
Top global market trends and predictions for 2016 and beyond
KPMG
Maturation of/greater access to innovative technologies
60% of the respondents view this as a positive trend.
2019
4Q 2018 KPMG Global Insights Pulse Survey Report
KPMG
Materials' Quantum Leap
IBM has simulated the electronic structure of a small molecule, using a seven-qubit quantum computer.
2018
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2018
MIT Technology Review
Materials for sensory substitution devices
(Definition) A technology allowing restoration/regeneration or enhancement of lost sensory function. It is the technology for sensory substitution devices by converging a sensory technology providing a sense of recognition exceeding human-level performance with sensory-neuron based recognition/stimulus device technology. (Use) Available to be used as a substitute of sensory organs of which functions are lost resulting from population ageing and for restoring lost senses of the disabled, contributing to improving the quality of life.
2019
KISTEP 10 Emerging Technologies 2019
South Korea, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)
Material Expectations
Material expectations, fuelled by access to increasingly globalised communications and media, will be heightened by continued global economic growth, and by visibility of high standards of living in affluent states. Visible marginalisation, economic inequality and a sense of grievance, where they occur, are likely to increase in significance and become major political issues, possibly based around transnational agendas that advocate violent activism.
2010
Global strategic trends - out to 2040
UK, Ministry of Defence