TOP TREND: MID-YEAR UPDATE 2016 FORECAST: Throughout 2016 and for years to come, millions of refugees will flee war-torn nations looking for safety. Millions of migrants will leave economically depressed countries looking for work. Trends are born, they grow, mature, reach old age and die. The Great Migration trend, born some five years ago, was...
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As populist movements gain momentum throughout western nations, one major unifying force among them is the anti-immigration theme with a two-fold message: loss of jobs to low-paying migrants and loss of cultural identity. “Of course, we must all respect differences, but we do not want… a society where communities co-exist side by side,” former French...
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The Presidential Reality Show®
TOP TREND: MID-YEAR UPDATE 2016 FORECAST: Bye, bye, Miss American Pie. It’s a Barnum and Bailey World. It’s the Greatest Show on Earth: The 2016 race for the White House. It’s a red, white and blue living-color freak show. It’s produced and directed exclusively by the masters of propaganda: just six corporations that own and operate...
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TREND forecast While Clinton and Trump swap leads in a season of volatile polls, we maintain our forecast that absent a wildcard event or his self-imposed destruction, Trump, a proven reality-show champion, will win the White House. Despite the wedge issues of gender, race and creed that grab headlines… the bottom line among voters in...
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Boomers Turn 70
TOP TREND: MID-YEAR UPDATE 2016 FORECAST: The potential in serving boomers, and especially boomers turning 70, is ripe with “Golden Opportunities,” intersecting with another Top Trend of 2016. While major retailers, Big Pharma and the Medical Industrial Complex will dominate market share and profitability, wide gaps are opening for entrepreneurs with good ideas, an open...
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Business opportunities serving older boomers will rapidly grow. While larger companies will dominate this sector, Ontrendpreneurs™ and boutique operations are well positioned to benefit from this trend. Offering products and services that provide dignity, grace and a higher quality of life, beyond coping products and services that maintain but don’t enhance, will prove profitable.
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Self-Sustainability
TOP TREND: MID-YEAR UPDATE 2016 FORECAST: Take a trip around the world. If you live outside one of those cities of wealth, take a walk around the block. What do you see? On the global scene, from Canada to Chile, Venezuela to Russia, Nigeria to Norway and South Africa to China, countries large and small...
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Beyond the nation state, as the gap between rich and poor widens, the middle class shrinks and more workers of the world make do with less, a new drive toward Involuntary Simplicity will build and support national self-sustainability movements. Moving beyond urban cities they can’t afford or boring suburbs of non-distinction, millennials in search of...
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Golden Opportunities
TOP TREND: MID-YEAR UPDATE 2016 FORECAST: The Golden Opportunities trend will continue to rapidly grow, particularly as merger/acquisition and consolidation rates increase as a result of cheap money. In addition, as the global economy slows, financially strapped enterprises will be gobbled up by stronger competition. Again, in an increasingly stressful business climate, survival strategies will trump...
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The birth of the Ontrendpreneur™ is the result of the takeover/merger-and-acquisition trend fast reaching a compression point. As products are eliminated from shelves because they don’t drive profits hard and fast enough, and services fall victim to the same logic, Golden Opportunities emerge for savvy entrepreneurs who identify underserved market niches and fill them. We explore...