Here is the third of the quarterly check-ins for 2025 on what the signals are saying regarding After Capitalism. (See Q2 …
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Five challenges to “jobs are required”
The After Capitalism work requires challenging myths, assumptions, and beliefs that will be uncomfortable to let go of. …
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Three challenges to “economic growth is required”
The After Capitalism work requires challenging myths, assumptions, and beliefs that will be uncomfortable to let go of. …
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Values shift to consuming less
A key theme of ConsumerShift is that the emergence of postmodern and integral values would lead to less emphasis on …
Values and consumption
Saw a piece “European Automakers Face Diminished Future” and checked it out to see if there might be a “values” …
Seven Grand Challenges for Consumer Products Companies for the Next Decade
Had to pull together some thoughts recently on what ConsumerShift implied for consumer products companies. Here’s the …
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Enoughness and the Future of Communications Research
UH Certificate in Strategic Foresight alum Robert Moran, now a quoted me around "enoughness" in his piece "The Future of …
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Some support for ethical consumption
My friend and colleague Christopher Kent of the Foresight Alliance pointed me to a post by the GfK Roper Consulting …
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Five Key Changes in the Future Consumer Landscape: #5 Enoughness
ConsumerShift identifies the changing consumer values and external trends that are remaking the consumer landscape. Five …
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Changing Values and “Enoughness” Suggest Economic Stimulus Won’t Work
Economic stimulus is in the news a lot. A recent New York Times piece noted that: "Since the economy began to falter in …
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The “New Normal” Obscures the Point
This popular phrase, which my old firm considered as a title for a multi-client meeting in 2009, may be giving us the …
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