Trend Alerts
Table-Turning Businesses
The pandemic turned the tables for many businesses. Major disruptors have slowed down while corporate giants have accelerated. Can small and medium sized enterprises (SME) keep up?
Collaborating with Machines
As organizations continue to adopt digital immersion and AI, the world will become increasingly difficult to navigate. How will we differentiate between what is real and what is simply a product of our digital interactions?
Future Foods
The food & beverage industry has been disrupted by changing eating habits during the pandemic. Will the trends be reversed or will the changes endure?
Tomorrow's Skills
Which skills will be most important for living in the future and how should we mitigate for the growing skills gap?
Climate Prospection
How do we address climate change now?
Transportation Outlook
How will we transport ourselves and goods in the future and at what risk?
Energy Futures
Is energy transition moving fast enough to avert disaster?
Future of Reality Technologies
How will reality technologies change human behavior?
Future By Design
How will design influence the future and how might the future be different for you?
Future Threats Landscape
What key threats does the world face?
President Joe Biden - how will he govern?
What will be the differences between Donald Trump’s time in office and Joe Biden’s?
World Outlook from 2021
What does the future look like?
User to Human Experiences
How is the human experience changing and how will it change society?
Asia to 2050
How is Asia likely to change by 2050?
Drowning in Trash
How do we make a world without waste?
Pollution Solution: Hydrogen Explosion?
Can China reduce its emissions by 60% in the next 20 years with electrification, renewables, green hydrogen and carbon removal technologies?
Innovation Outlook
By 2022, an estimated 60% of global GDP will be digitised. But watch out, cybercrime damages could cost businesses more than $5 trillion annually within 5 years.
Sustainable Development Goals - Is there any momentum?
Even before the Covid-19 crisis, the world was off-track in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Can it get back on track to achieve them by 2030?
China Hegemony
Where is China leading us?
Trade Outlook
Will the world move towards de-globalisation?
Coming Biodiversity Catastrophe
How should we respond to one of history's fastest periods of extinction?
Tomorrow's Education
Will online and corporate education reduce the need for school campuses?
Technology Trends
What are the potential gains and potential risks from future technologies?
Health Futures
How do we convert this virus crisis into an opportunity to become more resilient to widespread health shocks?
Human Rights Outlook
Climate change, technological advances and unprecedented levels of inequality could mean that global disruption becomes a norm in the coming decades.
Travel and Tourism Outlook
The UN projects a 20-30% decline in international tourist arrivals in 2020. This could put up to 50 million jobs at risk, with Asia likely to be the most affected continent. But will the good old days of tourism and travel return next year?
Life after COVID-19
The social and economic toll is great, but there could be a silver lining: Billions of minds around the world are being forced to think differently, paving the way for new solutions to major global problems. Read on to discover how.
Future Threats
How can AI be used responsibility to secure cyberspace, and what policies and regulations need to be developed to manage and mitigate the potential threats?
Business Prospects
Will we see an increased demand from boards of companies (listed and non-listed) to use good risk management to help them plot a path forward for a purposeful and sustainable strategy?
Employment Prospects
As CEOs, investors and policy makers spend time with their families at home while considering our future, is now the time when long-term, sustainable decision-making will finally trump all else?