Future Trends...
The future will not be more of the same ... … we need to be ready
Mergers - take overs - job moves Leadership Changes
Eat or be Eaten ! Living until the next merger
“Gaining Critical Mass…”
The world is running faster
World Trends
New Ways to Manage Wealth
Technology - Friend or Enemy ?
Technology = lower costs
Technology = job losses
Technology means lower margins
New Technology - may mean only 6 month lead
Attackers and defenders (Foster)
Attackers / Defenders
Attackers / Defenders Which are you?
E-commerce hard to measure
Aging Population
How will your clients behave on-line?
AOL Christmas 1998
Reasons people buy on net
Airline tickets - 1 million customers in first 12 months
MP3 - 3 million web music track downloads a day – most illegal CD copies….
Egg totally overwhelmed
Loosing control of your future Other people can damage image
Virtual Trading? - Virtual Exchange?
Real time prices for free
Volumes up as costs fall
Electronic Commerce
Cyber Tax Haven
Global Management
Single buying decisions
Intel Microprocessor
Just in Time
Mazda MX - 5 car
The Plane Cockpit Controls
e-business - problems
How digital will we become? Virtual Work
Empire Style Management
Virtual Companies
Executive Reactions
Need to have long range vision
Don’t believe market research
Technovision – over the horizon
More chips than People
Speech recognition already 95% accurate at 100 words per minute -
Telephone by 2010 ?
Mobile Phones - impact
Techno -Redundancy
The Network Society
Military Grade Security
Telecom will merge fully
Next - Office on Wrist
An injectable computer
Virtual Medicine
Management @ speed of light
Brain to Brain
Future Management Thought exchange @ the speed of light
Brain to Brain Business @ the speed of thought
Net TV - 10,000 stations ...
Executives will be totally networked
Save Travel Time
Life too short to spend in airports
15 million in America already work from home using networks
Video Conference
Eye to Eye Contact
Video Link
Client gets global advice
What will be the effect on people ?
Relationships under pressure
The search for Experience
Building a Better World
The biggest challenge will be to adapt even faster than new technology and new values Either we take hold of the future or the future will take hold of us
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Other information: by Dr Patrick Dixon for Georgia Technology Summit, US - 1998.
