Eric Garland TOPICS: Future Technology Economics FEE CATEGORY:* 10.0k to 15.0k TRAVELS FROM: District of Columbia Video Profile Program Outlines Request This Speaker

Eric Garland: Program Outlines

Eric Garland is a dynamic speaker on the future trends that will impact your business, drawing from his experience looking at the future for dozens of corporations and government agencies. An expert in competitive intelligence, he also brings his clients insight about the kinds of business intelligence practices you will need to get the right information to the right people in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

Whether as a keynote speaker at a conference, or in appearances on television and radio, Eric always brings insight to leaders of business and government as to the challenges ahead as we develop into the first future-focused generation of leaders.

The Superconnected Future: 10 Future Forces Shaping Your Business
This globalized world is so interconnected, that trends outside of your industry can cause the biggest problems. Digital file compression (MP3s) caused the biggest problems for record companies, and they aren’t even in the software business! Today, leaders have to keep an eye on all the trends.

In The Superconnected Future, Eric brings you up-to-date on the top ten future forces in information technology, life sciences, nanotechnology, media and communications, healthcare and other fields to show how these trends will all cross-pollinate to create wondrous new possibilities and quite a few pitfalls as well.

Bring the Future Home: Jumping on new opportunities through the process of “future intelligence”
Some companies are constantly starting successful businesses and avoiding competitive threats through a process of constant futuring, steadily scanning the environment for opportunities and threats. Other organizations get blindsided my new competitors and other threats to their business models. Often the difference is a rigorous process of future intelligence, regularly collected, analyzed and presented to decision makers when it matters most.

In Bring the Future Home, Eric brings his experience in working with many of the world’s top corporations and government agencies to show how they make a practice of tracking the right trends, evaluating expert forecasts, and considering a range of possible future scenarios. In this presentation will show you how some proactively use this future information to start new businesses ahead of the competition…and how some sit tight, cross their fingers, and hope the world doesn’t change too fast.

So What? What if…? and What Else?: How to Distill Strategic Implications from Your Business Intelligence
You watch the news, you read The Economist on the airplane, and you would die without regular updates from the Internet – but are you sure what all this data means as a potential threat or opportunity – can you distill the strategic implication the information you collect?

In So What? What If? and What Else?, Eric will show you how to determine where the potential threats and opportunities lie from the information you collect about your marketplace. In this humorous look at a superconnected and complex world, Eric will show you how the automobile made Americans 15 pounds heavier, encouraged teen sex, and kept us from knowing our grandmothers – all because strategic implications are interconnected in unexpected ways. You will learn morphological analysis, the Futures Wheel, and other techniques to

Stay in the Game: Using Foresight to Keep Your State or City’s Economic Development Thriving in the Future
A program especially for economic development organizations as well as city and state government leaders, Eric explores why some cities are watching their economic vitality drain away and why others are proactively seeking the industries of the future.

In Stay in the Game, Eric shows how some communities are thriving because they scan the future for large industrial and social trends, and are even investing heavily to attract nanotechnology – a field with relatively few profitable companies (for the moment).

Compare this with the municipalities holding their breath for some “golden age” to come back…and losing their young people and skilled work force in the process.

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