Andy’s Recent Content
After Capitalism: What the Signals Are Saying Q1 2025
NOTE: The After Capitalism paperback is back for sale on Amazon (the initial run sold out and there were, um, issues with replenishing … now resolved!) Here is the slightly late first installment of the quarterly check-in for 2025 on what the signals are saying regarding After Capitalism. (See Q3 2024 here.) Drum roll please! […]
De-premiumization
So many organizations today are seeking the exalted premium segment of customers. Premium of course requires a regular or mass segment to distinguish itself from. Perhaps nothing is a more damming illustration of the perversity of the current system and the need for After Capitalism. It has become a desirable goal to create a system […]
Convenience Is the Enemy
What is the mindset change needed to facilitate the transformation to After Capitalism? Put differently, what is the core promise of capitalism that needs to be adjusted? I submit it’s convenience. If you have the stomach for it, immerse yourself in advertising. It probably won’t take long to see that the basic promise is making […]
ABOUT ANDY HINES
Dr. Andy Hines is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.
