Manufacturing
111 articles and keynote videos (66 with video) since 2007, newest first.
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Economy · 2026
Leading in chaotic times
Logistics keynote for Logistics World in Mexico. In chaotic and uncertain times, logistics and supply chain companies with CASH and AGILITY…
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Economy · 2025
Most board debates about future are about timing, not events
Large companies make their own future - with innovation, leading markets, creating opportunities. That is why most board debates about glob…
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Economy · 2025
Future of Logistics
Major risk for any Futurist is being judged against own predictions by what actually happened. That's why I always enjoy returning to event…
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Economy · 2025
Truth about US trade War
TRUTH about the US Trade War - what next?? As I pointed out hours before President Trump announced "Liberation Day" Trade Tariffs, the TRUT…
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Economy · 2025
How US trade tariff chaos will settle and why
2 April 2025. US Tarrifs and Trade War: 4 hours after my opening keynote today at massive LogisticsWorld event in Mexico, President Trump c…
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Economy · 2025
Truth about US trade chaos
Making sense of global trade CHAOS: MEGATRENDS will dominate future. More powerful in medium term than global trade barriers / chaos trigge…
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Economy · 2021
I warned for years about new pandemic threats like COVID, as a Futurist and physician
Here is the truth about COVID. The bad news and the good news. For many years I warned as a global futurist and physician about risks from …
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Economy · 2020
More to Life than COVID
As I predicted when the COVID pandemic began, we've seen very few if any new trends, just acceleration of existing ones.
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Economy · 2020
Life After COVID Pandemic
Business strategies for a post-coronavirus world.
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Economy · 2020
How China will dominate the world, and why most business leaders are blind to China's impact
By 2040 China will dominate almost all global markets. Most business and government leaders are blind to China's gigantic future impact.
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Economy · 2017
Future of China: 300 year trend that will shake the entire world
China is a wealthy ‘nation of nations’ with a huge middle class, gigantic manufacturing capacity, its own dotcom boom, the world’s largest …
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Economy · 2017
Future of global floor coverings
Global issues impacting future of floor coverings industry and related issues.
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Economy · 2016
Forecasts I made re Brexit were correct
We are in completely uncharted waters in troubled times globally and across the EU.
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Economy · 2015
Can a Futurist really predict the future?
My new global trends book is out now: The Future of Almost Everything. But it takes at least 20 years to evaluate how good a trends analyst…
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Economy · 2015
What Future for Saudi Arabia?
Future of Saudi Arabia - keynote at Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF 2015) organised by SAGIA.
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Economy · 2015
10 trends that will really dominate our future
Over 100,000 views of this post, based on Futurist keynotes around the world. Read FREE SAMPLE of The Truth about Almost Everything.
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Economy · 2014
Future of Global Trade
Future of global trade, containers, containerisation, shipping, freight, supply chain management, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, white g…
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Economy · 2014
The Future of Almost Everything
Discover The Future of Almost Everything: six faces of global change and their impact on your business, personal life, family and wider wor…
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Economy · 2014
1 billion future customers
Future customers - who, where, why and what the will buy. 1 billion new customers around the world. Future of Marketing Keynote by Patrick …
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Economy · 2014
Future of the Cotton Industry
Future of the cotton industry - suppliers, manufacturers, environment, fair trade cotton, better cotton, more sustainable cotton, GM and BT…
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Economy · 2008
The Future of Outsourcing in world beyond AI
Growth of India and China, emerging markets threat and opportunities Future outsourcing. Impact of outsourcing on America economy, US jobs,…
