Sample of the 2016 edition of the Megatrend Fact Sheets. The full document will save you hours of research time, and will help you to: - prepare your team for long-term planning sessions; - understand the long-term challenges for your business and industry; - discover new opportunities and innovative ideas; - engage in meaningful discussions with your clients and partners.

1. 65 Megatrend Fact Sheets
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2016 edition
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2. • This document has been acquired for the internal use of
the acquiring company. It can be spread and shown
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distributed to people external to the acquiring company.

3. • The trends discussed in this document are not
predictions, but developments that are currently
deploying and of which the full extend and long-term
impact are relatively unknown.
• The categorization in ‘themes’ is not a scientific exercise.
Some of the trends discussed under a specific theme
could have been included in other themes.
• The ‘Major industries impacted’ and ‘Impact timing’ on
each of the fact sheets are based on judgment from i4fi.
They are meant as ‘eye-opener’ and do not result from
any scientific process.

4. Key takeaway
Trend timeline
and impact on
industries
1-2 key graphics
or charts relating
to the megatrend
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6 trends added:
• Business as a
Platform
• Blockchain
technology
• Future jobs
• New materials
• Drones for
business
• New urban models

6. Step 1: discuss megatrends
Step 2: Whiteboard selection &
discussion of trends with highest
impact
Step 3: Idea generation on how
to prepare for threats or benefit
from opportunities, discussion an
selection of best idea
Works best with:
• 2 teams of 5-6 people per theme;
• people from different background and
seniority level;
• send fact sheets prior to workshop.

7. Conduct a preliminary survey to generate insights and discussion points
Step 1: select 20-25 trends
Step 2: send the survey
4 questions for each trend
(score 1-5):
• Disruptive impact on your industry
• Threat level on your company
• Opportunity level for your company
• How prepared is your company for
these threats & opportunities?
Step 3: analyze results
Step 4: Discuss the findings
• What does it mean for us?
• How can we prepare for future threats?
• How to catch new opportunities?
• How do competitors prepare?
We can help you with designing the survey and
producing a world-class document of the findings!
Contact frederic@i4fi.com for more information

8. When discussing with your colleagues or
partners, ask these 4 questions for each trend :
• Does the trend have a disruptive impact on your
industry?
• What is the threat level on your company?
• What is the (hidden) opportunity for your company?
• How prepared is your company for these threats &
opportunities?

9. Institutions-organizations
• Asian Development Bank
• Conference Board
• Eurostat
• The Heritage Foundation
• London Management School
• MIT
• NASA
• OECD
• Schwab Foundation
• UNEP-GRID
• UNFPO
• United Nations
• Vlerick Management School
• World Bank
• World Economic Forum
• World Futurist Society
• World Health Organization
• World Resources Forum
• World Resource Institute
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Blogs:
• Alaklett
• Brandon Gaille
• Business Insider
• Crowdsourcing.org
• I4fi
• Inhabitat
• Mashable
• Nextnature
• Quartz
• Renewable Energy
• Social Media Today
• Techcrunch
• Trendhunter
• Urban Mining
• Venturebeat
Consultancies:
• Accenture
• AT Kearney
• Board of Innovation
• Boston Consultancy
Group
• Eurominotor
• E&Y
• Forrester
• Gallup
• Gartner
• IDC
• JWT Intelligence
• KPMG
• McKinsey
• McKinsey Global
Institute
• Nielsen
• PEW Research
• PWC
News and media:
• BBC
• Business Week
• CIO Magazine
• The Economist
• Energy Bulletin
• Entrepreneur Magazine
• The Fast Company
• Forbes Magazine
• The Guardian
• Huffington Post
• Inc. Magazine
• Information Week
• MSNBC
• PR Newswire
• Scientific American
• Thomson Reuters
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post
• Wired
Corporations:
• Alcatel-Lucent
• Cisco
• Credit Suisse
• Ericsson
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Saatchi
• SAP
• Symantec

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• Demographic trends
– Growing world population
– Ageing population
– Migration patterns
– Urbanization
– Gap rich-poor
– Generation Y
– Generation Z
– War for talent
• Environment and
sustainability
– Climate change
– Scarce resources
– Peak oil
– Water shortage
– Food stress
– Clean energy
– Smart cities
– Bio materials
– New materials
– Cradle-to-cradle
– Biomimicry
– Urban farming
– Eco activism
– New urban models
• Geopolitical trends
– Power shift
– Globalization 3.0
– Rising middle class
– Energy dependence
– The Market State
• Consumer & societal trends
– Mass customization
– Ethical buying
– ‘Buy local’
– Social & Group buying
– Personalization
– Sharing economy
– Radical transparency
– Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs)
– Personal Health
– Digital divide
– Virtual Currencies
– Blockchain technology
– New jobs
• Technology trends
– Big Data/ data science
– Internet of Things (IoT)
– Augmented Reality
– Consumerization of IT (BYOD)
– Technology ‘as a Service’
– Home 3D printing
– Business 3D printing
– Drones for business
– Bioprinting
– Enhanced Humans
– Wearable Technologies
• Business trends
– Life Cycle Assessment
– Disintermediation
– Crowdsourcing & funding
– Open innovation
– Gamification
– Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR)
– Cause Marketing
– Social Business Innovation
– Social entrepreneurs
– Intrapreneurship
– Businesses get social
– Holacracy
– Business as a platform
– Virtualization of the corporation
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- Demographic
- Environment
- Geopolitical
- Consumer
- Technology
- Business

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12. Impact:
50.5% of humans now live in cities. By 2050 this will
have grown to 82% in Northern America, 70% in
Europe and 65% in Asia and Africa
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14. One billion people do not have access to safe
sources of drinking water and 2.5 billion people live
without improved sanitation
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16. More than half the world’s middle class could be in
Asia and Asian consumers could account for over 40
per cent of global middle class consumption. (OECD)
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18. Plenty of other virtual currencies have been forged
along with bitcoin — at last count, more than 500 in
all (ATM Marketplace)
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20. The worldwide 3D printer market will experience
growth from 2012 to 2017, with compound annual
growth rates of 59% and 29%, respectively (IDC)
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22. • 300+ organizations are already running with
Holacracy
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