Glen Hiemstra keynotes the SONAE 2010 Finov Conference honoring innovation in SONAE. Oporto, Portugal, October 2010. Lessons from the future for SONAE. Glen Hiemstra is the Founder of Futurist.com

1. What is your image of the Future?
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2. The future creates the present….
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3. Future is Not a Mystery
 Interrelated Triple E
 Technology Acceleration Continues
 Customers Old and Young, Diverse
 The future in…
 Retail
 Engineered Wood & Materials
 Real Estate
 Tourism & Leisure
 Telecom
 Need for transformational Leadership
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4. Knowledge Value Economy
Rapid
Innovation Debt
Technology Drag
Convergence
It’s what a
Global Product or
Opportunity Service
Knows
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5. Future of Energy:
Turning Point in Fossil Fuel Age
2009 IEA World Energy Outlook
50 mbd additional output needed by 2020
Natural gas liquids
Non-conventional oil
Crude oil – fields yet
to be developed or found
Crude oil – currently
producing fields
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6. Future Environment:
Climate tipping points visible
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7. Technology
Acceleration
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8. AORTA Technology Rules
From WEB
To STREAM
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9. 3D Desktop Manufacture
Desktopfactory.com
Scott Summit, co-founder of Bespoke Innovations, with a prosthetic limb.
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10. Old Young Diverse 2020
Traditionals…now 75+ Boomers…now 56-74 Millennials…
now 20-39
Generation X…now 40-55 Post Millennial…now 1-19
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11. Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants
Marc Prensky originated
“digital native” term and this list
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12. People formerly known as
consumers
It’s only just begun
Based on Trendwatching.com
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13. Future of Retail
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14. Future of Building Materials
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15. Future of Real Estate
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16. Future of Tourism
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17. Future of Telecom
Mobile 3D (Samsung W960) ©

18. Innovation Required, but…
Innovation for What? And How?
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19. Knowledge Value
Sustainability
Frugality
Fun !
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20. The future is
something
we do.
The future is not
something that just Glen Hiemstra
happens to us. Futurist.com
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