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Turning the Future Into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Futures Hardback - 2006

by Glen Hiemstra

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DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS In Turning the Future into Revenue, Glen Hiemstra, founder of Futurist.com and noted expert on emerging business opportunities, explores how our changing world will transform private enterprise and public policy. From shifting demographics to global warming to new energy policies, change is coming. Turning the Future into Revenue shows how these new realities can be turned into profitable new ventures. Some of the topics Hiemstra discusses include: Five long-term trends you should be prepared for Global warming and the urgent need for green business Profiting from technology and energy trends Predicting the future of your business or career Hedging your bets on future business Ten key practices of the future-oriented enterprise Future planning exercises, tools, and activities Tactics for forecasting the future Shaping your career for future success

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DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS

In Turning the Future into Revenue, Glen Hiemstra, founder of Futurist.com and noted expert on emerging business opportunities, explores how our changing world will transform private enterprise and public policy. From shifting demographics to global warming to new energy policies, change is coming. Turning the Future into Revenue shows how these new realities can be turned into profitable new ventures.

Some of the topics Hiemstra discusses include:

  • Five long-term trends you should be prepared for
  • Global warming and the urgent need for green business
  • Profiting from technology and energy trends
  • Predicting the future of your business or career
  • Hedging your bets on future business
  • Ten key practices of the future-oriented enterprise
  • Future planning exercises, tools, and activities
  • Tactics for forecasting the future
  • Shaping your career for future success

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  • Title Turning the Future Into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Futures
  • Author Glen Hiemstra
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 226
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons
  • Publication date July 28, 2006
  • ISBN 9780471792932 / 0471792934
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.34 x 0.94 in (22.96 x 16.10 x 2.39 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Stock price forecasting, Economic forecasting
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006004852
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.011

About the author

Glen Hiemstra is the founder of Futurist.com; an internationally respected consultant; and a speaker to business, government, and professional associations. A former award-winning educator, he is a visiting scholar at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington and an expert in preferred future planning. For more information, please visit www.futurist.com.
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