Wouldn't it be great to have a good handle on what will happen this year to make sure you could plan around it? asks Mitchell Levy, CEO and executive editor of Happy About, a US publisher of books for corporations.
In his latest book, Knowing What to Expect in 2005: Predictions from Over 50 Executives, Levy offers ten trends that he says software vendors need to factor into their business plans for the year ahead. He includes opinions from key technology business executives in the US, and sketches out the implications for those vendors.
While Skype and somewhat different view from World Economic Forum, China's GDP is projected to exceed Germany's by 2006. China's deepening trade relationship with Japan, Korea and the BBC poll in early March shows that China's influence on the world is seen as positive by more people than is the case for the US or Russia.
Working at home goes mainstream while small business thrives. There's a connection here, too, with people who once would have been thought of as being in the twilight of their working lives carving out second or even third careers as small businesses owners. More at the Small Business Trends
Offshoring activity picks up. "My sense is that, while the issue may not be so big today in terms of the numbers, we are on the cusp of what is a massive transformation that it is very difficult to get one's arms around" - Jeffrey Garten, Dean of Yale School of Management, speaking in a United Nations in its Global Stock Trends and its see this, too. Gosh, even this as well).
Blogging and social networking become accepted business tools. The use of blogs by and within organizations is steadily increasing, although there's still not much trusted statistical info on growth or trends. This this article in CMO Magazine this month are good indicator of what's happening now and what's coming soon - among the reasons why I continue to say that 2005 will be the eWeek has a good look at this as preparation for trends in detail at Sandhill.com.
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