The Lord Mayor of the City of London for the year 2023/24 (the 695th, no less), Right Honourable Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, is running a series of online webinars under…
Category: Trends
Consumer Trends
We normally work with clients on long-term futures and major megatrends, so we don’t usually pay a lot of attention to passing fashions. We do keep track of changing social…
Reasons to be anxious
We have noted changing attitudes and behaviours of different generational cohorts since we first produced our Drivers of Change document back in 2017. We noted then that “Generation Z smoke…
Tech Trends and More
Many of you will know that here at SAMI we are not overly sold on technology trends – no flying taxis for us. There is a tendency amongst those who…
Decades, centuries and millennia – ways of thinking about the future
We spend our time thinking about, living in, and helping our clients prepare for the future. But what do we mean by future? SAMI’s origins, as a joint venture between…
WEF Global Risks Report 2024
The World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risks Report in January. This is based on its survey of the perceptions of around 1,500 experts across academia, business, government, the…