Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) offers best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies in organizations. It has revealed the top global “Mega Trends” that will influence and shape the world in the coming year.
According to a press release, the company said will cover the following areas: “smart” emerging as the new Green, Geo Socialization, Innovating to Zero, Beyond BRIC: The Next Game Changers, Space Jam, Personal Robots, e-Mobility and New Business Models, to name a few. The objective is to provide companies with special reports to focus on the evolution of these global trends to help them drive growth and innovation in a rapidly changing environment.
Frost & Sullivan Partner Sarwant Singh explained: "Frost & Sullivan defines Mega Trends as global, sustained and macroeconomic forces of development that impact business, economy, cultures, careers and personal lives, thereby defining our future world and its increasing pace of change."
Singh added: "The unique feature of this Visionary Innovation Research Programme, compared to other predictive programmes out there, lies in its ability to not only identify and evaluate emerging Mega Trends, but to also to translate those opportunities to everyday business and personal life -- the macro to micro approach”
The research reveals that future urbanization will drive integration of core city centers or downtowns with suburbs and satellite cities, resulting in expanding boundaries from the current average of 25 miles (40 km) to around 40 miles (64 km).The company will witness the emergence of 30 Mega-cities, 15 Mega-regions and at least 10 Mega-corridors with over 20 million people by 2020.
The next level of social networking will depend on geographic services and capabilities such as geocoding and goging to enable additional social dynamics.
Urbanization will lead to new hub and spoke business models for healthcare, logistics, retailing and many other functions, forcing organizations to re-think their “Urban” business model.
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