12 Emerging Issues That Will Shape the New Business Environment
Social Technologies, a leading research and consulting firm, has completed a study identifying emerging issues that will be critical in shaping the global business environment through 2020. The results of this research will be unveiled at an online event on June 1, 2009.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 29, 2009 -- To enhance its clients' foresight capabilities, Social Technologies, a leading research and consulting firm, has completed a study identifying emerging issues that will be critical in shaping the global business environment through 2020. The results of this research will be unveiled at an online event on June 1, 2009. The event is designed to help senior executives from Fortune 500 companies and top government agencies anticipate the social and technological context within which they will operate over the next 5-10 years.
Critical business issues often originate outside an organization's own industry as fringe ideas or trends, and evolve slowly over years or even decades. This can make it difficult for even the most robust organization to identify and track such issues over time, and to anticipate how they will impact customers, products, and corporate operations as they mature.
For example, the critical emerging issues to be discussed in the June 1 webinar include:
| | - De-Globalization--Are converging economic, political, and environmental factors undermining the incentives for doing business globally?
- An Era of Constraints--With rising constraints on energy, water, emissions, and arable land, how will society's assumptions about abundance and scarcity shift?
- Augmented Humans--As options proliferate for enhancing people biochemically and technologically, what will be seen as desirable, permissible, and normal?
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As Chris Carbone, a director at Social Technologies, notes, "Our clients understand the need to look at long-term trends and issues, but get caught up in the day-to-day. The economic crisis doesn't help, as it is compelling many organizations to focus their thinking on the next quarter or two, which can impede efforts to be ready for the longer-term future. Because of this, we thought this was the perfect time to pull the lens back and explore critical emerging issues that businesses need to start preparing for today. We're truly excited about helping our clients see past today's volatility to tomorrow's opportunities with this research effort."
The June 1 event will be attended by members of the Futures Consortium, a research and networking program for leading companies and agencies which is operated by Social Technologies. Members of the Consortium receive world-class research, attend exclusive events, and join a network of peers who work in foresight, strategy, and innovation at leading organizations.
To view a short video introduction to the emerging issues, visit www.socialtechnologies.com/emergingissues.
To request a guest pass for the webinar and learn more about the Futures Consortium, please contact Don Abraham at 202-223-2801 x112. Members of the press are invited to contact Lesley Cohen to learn about the Emerging Issues research and set up interview with analysts at H. Rose PR Group, 202-294-6770.
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About ) Social Technologies
Social Technologies is a global research and consulting firm specializing in the integration of foresight, strategy, and innovation. Based in Washington, DC, Social Technologies serves the world's leading companies, government agencies, and nonprofits. A holistic, long-term perspective combined with actionable business solutions helps clients mitigate risk, make the most of opportunities, and enrich decision-making. Social Technologies is a division of UTEK Corporation. (NYSE Alternext US & LSE-AIM: UTK)
About ) UTEK Corporation
UTEK® is a leading innovation services company. UTEK's services enable clients to become stronger innovators, rapidly source externally developed technologies, create value from their intellectual property and gain foresight into marketplace and technology developments that affect their business. UTEK is a business development company. For more information about UTEK, please visit www.utekcorp.com.
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