The Shift Age Trend Report Subscription by David Houle
In this time of incredibly rapid change, forecasting is key to providing strategic direction so companies can adapt and adjust to the transitions confronting them today and in the years and decades ahead. By using forecast information intelligently, top management can best take advantage of current forces and trends. The Shift Age Trend Report is a semi-annual briefing on the social, economic, cultural, scientific and technological trends that are shaping our world.
With a process he calls "futuring," David Houle has built his interactive Shift Age Trend report to help top management take a look at trends that will reshape the world, how they will affect the marketplace and in turn, see how their company might better face tomorrow. With this knowledge, companies can strategize and redirect in tune with rapidly changing marketplaces.
The Shift Age Trend Report is a collection of contributed articles and interviews with some of today's most interesting thought leaders across the industries that will be impacting the world we live in. Downloadable as an interactive PDF document, The Shift Age Trend Report can be read from any computer (Adobe Acrobat 9 is required, free download available). It is also a substantive collection of interconnected multimedia and is full of hyperlinks to interesting content from around the web.
In the Trend Report download you'll receive related and referenced material as PowerPoint slides, PDFs or videos, and the Report itself.
This one-year subscription will give you the inaugural Trend Report, plus two additional downloads over the next 12 months. In addition to the media-rich downloads, subscribers will have password protected access to videos. These videos will be both updates and opportunities to address subscriber issues and questions.
David Houle has made a number of correct forecasts in the past three years. Here are a few and including the dates he made them:
- Oil would reach $125 a barrel in 2008
April 2006
- Major city newspapers would start to go out of business within 3-4 years, smaller city papers would thrive
June 2006
- The sub-prime problem would show that the financial marketplace was now global and the problems would become global
August 2007
- Barack Obama would be the next President of the U.S.
November 2007
- Obama would win with 53% of the vote and the Democrats would win 60% of both the Senate and the House
July 2008
- There will most likely be deflation in the U.S. for the next six to nine months
November 2008
David Houle is a futurist, strategist and speaker. He spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment, working at NBC and CBS. Houle was part of the senior executive team that created and launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News. He won two Emmys as Co-Executive Producer for a nationally syndicated kids program, “Energy Express.” Winner of the prestigious George Foster Peabody and the Heartland awards for “Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream,” he was also nominated for an Academy Award.
Houle is consistently ranked as one of the top futurists and futurist keynote speakers on the major search engines. He has keynoted numerous conferences both across the country and internationally. He is regularly invited to speak at corporate management retreats. Vistage named him the "Rookie Speaker of the Year" for 2008. He recently launched a free monthly newsletter and a semi-annual trend report. His first book "The Shift Age" was published in 2008.
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