Future trends and how to use them for business strategy
People love to think about future trends. Hearing about new technologies and emerging social behavior is always engaging when it comes to TV programs…
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Futures studies and the psychology of loss
When you begin working in the discipline of futures studies, you immediately dive into the mechanics of organizing data. You learn about how to…
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Why I’m proud to be a futurist
The word sounds cool and has such a weight to it. It ought to be a sought after job title, yet despite my experience as a bona fide professional…
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Elegy for my mentor, Joe Coates
It was with great sadness that I learned recently of the death of my friend and mentor, Joseph F. Coates. It is with an equal sense of joy and…
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Eric Garland Keynote Speech on Intelligence at IBRAMERC
Iʼm very excited and proud to be at the worldʼs largest professional event for market intelligence. From what I have seen from the participants and the management, it may also be the worldʼs best as well. If anybody,…
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Five tips on how to run a great meeting on future trends
Every year, thousands of organizations look toward the future at conferences, seminars, and executive retreats. They talk about trends, fads, news…
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Forget Futurists: Unless You Plan on Doing Futurism Right
Right on time, the media is rekindling its affair with Futurists, the love that dare not speak its name.
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Global Trends 2030 learns from past mistakes
I’m kind of excited to see what becomes of the Global Trends 2030 project, an official futurist project run by the United States National Intelligence…
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Confusion over my status as a futurist
I have, in the past few weeks, received several confused emails and tweets regarding my continued writing on subjects pertaining to the trends,…
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Five ways to achieve strategic foresight – and five ways we fail
Yesterday I was honored to speak on strategic foresight at a great event in Chicago, the first annual Corporate Researchers Conference, produced by the…
