Our preliminary research at Houston Foresight into how domains evolve over the Three Horizons suggests collapse is not …
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Lazy Socialists
The unfortunate aspects of Whole Food’s CEO John Mackey’s comments about youth being “lazy socialists” is that they are …
The role of values in interpreting values
Came across an interesting example of how two analysts/organizations looking at the same data can interpret it quite …
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Postmodern values and women in leadership
Came across an interesting post on "golden skirts" which noted that "the European Union has walked back from a …
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The commodity identity continuum
One of the interesting insights that emerged from Consumershift was the commodity-identity continuum. It suggests that …
Are American values universal?
I came across a blog post by commenting on Congressman Paul Ryan saying that Preventing Gay Marriage Part of America’s …
New Values Types Summary Graphic
Could no longer avoid the Saturday morning to-do list item: "create summary graphic of values types described in …
India experiencing the transition to modern values
The Pew Center, always an excellent source of data, posted some useful data on the status of India’s economy and society …
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Seven Grand Challenges for Consumer Products Companies for the Next Decade
Had to pull together some thoughts recently on what ConsumerShift implied for consumer products companies. Here’s the …
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Are postmodern values enough?
In my file of “interesting ideas” I had stashed a nice blog post called “free your mind” from the YES website – a quite …
Values changes suggest not buying stuff is not temporary
Josh Allen Dykstra in Fast Company recently explored “why millennials don’t want to buy stuff.” He noted that “the …
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Emerging Need State 23: Expanding accountabilities
Holding partners to high standards such as the triple bottom line, community contribution, shared values and …
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Emerging Need State 22: The truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth
Preference for the unvarnished truth, which increases credibility “The truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth” …
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Emerging Need State 21: Trusted partners for the new insecurity
Requiring trusted partners in turbulent times, with the economy, terror, resource shortages, environmental issues, …
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Is Homo Economicus in decline?
A few comments on an interesting brief post How the 'Free Market' Is Consuming Our Values on a book by Harvard professor …
Emerging Need State 20: Making a difference
Looking for ways to make a tangible difference rather than the pursuit of idealistic grand schemes “Making a …
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Emerging Need State 19: Global citizens
Thinking of the ramifications one’s goals and activities beyond national borders with a genuine concern for planetary …
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Emerging Need State 18: Trust the network
Placing trust in one’s extended personal network or a "crowd sourced" community of interest over traditional …
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Emerging Need State 17: Community support
Requiring that partners provide local distribution of benefits and/or are investing in the community “Community …
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Emerging Need State 16: Local preference
Valuing local origins to support local community as well as reduce environmental impacts “Local Preference” is the …
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Emerging Need State 15: Pursuit of happiness, aka well-being
Evaluating product, service and experience offerings in terms of how they contribute to my—and in many cases my …
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Emerging Need State 14: I am not a consumer
Demanding to be treated as a whole person, not just a statistic that makes purchases “I am not a consumer” is the …
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Emerging Need State 13: Reinventing the self
Continuing desire to expand one’s skills, capabilities, and purposes “Reinventing the self” is the fourth of six …
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Emerging Need State 12: Systematic and consistent
Looking to fit products and services into larger lifestyle, values, and sense of purpose “Systematic and consistent" …
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Emerging Need State 11: Identity products, services, and experiences
Investing great time, attention, and money in offerings seen to be important to one's identity, while price shopping on …
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Emerging Need State 10 Help me help myself
Looking for opportunities for co-creation with tools, templates, and advice in product and service offerings “Help me …
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Some support for ethical consumption
My friend and colleague Christopher Kent of the Foresight Alliance pointed me to a post by the GfK Roper Consulting …
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ConsumerShift review
My professional futurist colleague and long-time Association of Professional Futurists member Jim Pinto has just posted …
A cop out on change?
I wonder if y’all have been having the experience where we talk about future changes and developments and the audience – …
Emerging Need State 9: Living in real time
Opening up to spontaneously take advantage of opportunities as they arise “Living in real time” is the third of three …
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