Retail and the Long Range Future

The future creates the present…

Longer Range Preferred Future Planning is not really about the future.

It is about folding the future back on the present so that you can make better decisions today.

Aging population and DIFM

5-10 Year Retail ETD’s!•  Continued integration of online and physical

experience, declining dominance of physical •  Continued rise of peer-to-peer commerce •  Intelligence built into products and processes •  Expectations for environmental and social

responsibility - especially of companies whose products seem related to these values

•  Growth in local and village centers •  Mobile access becomes critical •  Brand democratization •  Convergence of company, employees, brand

Not a Mystery

• Economic Struggle  

• Old, Young • Tech Acceleration • New Retail Realities • Environment & Lifestyle

Knowledge Value Economy

It’s what a  

Product or  Service  

Knows

Debt  Drag  &  Income  Gap  Economics  

6000  Years   American  Experiment  

Traditionals now 75+

Old Young Diverse

Boomers   now 56-74

Millennials now 20-39

Generation X   now 40-55

Post Millennial   now 1-19

2020

27 Florida’s by 2025  States where at least 20% of  The population will be elderly

Marc Prensky originated “digital native” term and this list

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Digital Natives

Digital Immigrants

Technology Acceleration

AORTA Technology Rules

From WEB To STREAM

3D Communication

Really Smart is On the Way

Nanotechnology

Not  just  small  things,  but  things  with  different  properBes  because  of  nanoscale  

Medium-­‐Term  ConstrucBon  Nano-­‐tech  

•  Windows  that  regulate  heat  and  light  •  Concrete  and  laminates  that  act  as  baIeries  •  Wall  &  Roof  coaBngs  that  don’t  degrade,  plus  

break  down  pollutants  &  clean  the  air  •  Buildings  that  react  to  your  moods  and  gestures  •  Nanoshells  and  other  smart  bots  

3D Desktop Manufacture

New Retail Realities

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From Customers to Fanatics

Fanatics Can Make and Break Your Brand

Sylvania Facebook Masterful Makeover

In a networked society interaction comes before transaction

Source:  Gerd  Leonhard  

Image  credit  SuperAlloys.com  

Data is the new oil...

Source:    gerd  leonhard  

Environment & Life Styles

What is your image of the future?

The  future  is  not  something  that  just  happens  to  us  

The  future  is    something  we  do  

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