Millennials Become an Important Market Force
The young people born between 1984 and 2002 are the first generation to grow up never knowing a world without
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Business Practices
Wrongful Dismissal and the Vital Importance of Hiring the Right People
As a Trends subscriber, you’re aware of the growing labor shortage as well as the challenges posed by our runaway
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Recommendation Engines Rev Up
Today, as “long-tail economics” shapes more and more online businesses, profitability increasingly depends on sophisticated “recommendation engines” that analyze a
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The Era of Personalization, Customization, and Co-Production
Technology, demography, and attitudes are converging to make co-production of personalized products a winning business model for the coming decade.
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The Great “Stock Market Bubble” of China
The Chinese stock market is red-hot and apparently on the verge of melting down. Yet, Chinese and foreign investors are
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The Transformational Potential of Mesh Networks
Many of the trends highlighted in this issue depend on low-cost, ubiquitous bandwidth. To enable these trends, and dozens of
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A Car Next to Every Hut
Automakers are now poised at an inflection point of mammoth proportions. As the Trends Editors explained in 2003, stagnant auto
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