What happens to oil producing countries when oil demand peaks? When petro-economies no longer are able to finance themselves through the extraction and export of oil products, what do they…
Category: Foresight
Changing drivers of change – social attitudes
We’ve seen how demographics, various macro-economic forces, climate breakdown and technology will cause change. The last of SAMI’s six drivers of change is changing social attitudes, a critical underpinning force. …
Changing Drivers of Change - Biotech
As well as the technological developments of digitalisation that characterise the “4th Industrial Revolution”, the field of biotechnology is shaping up to be just as dramatic. In our 2018 set…
Changing drivers of change – 4th Industrial Revolution
The increasing digitalisation of industry is bringing together advances in sensors, through the Internet of Things, other immersive technologies, Big Data analytical tools and machine learning/artificial intelligence. Together we regard…
After Covid-19 the world WILL be different
This article is written in May 2020 and explores some potential impacts – beyond the immediate – of the current Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on an original (longer) piece…
When wildcards hit, your contingency planning is tested. Did you have enough of the key equipment or resourcesstockpiled, are you able to switch production fast enough? The coronavirus outbreak exposed issues in government planning around the availability of critical items – personal protection equipment, ventilators, testing facilities having the required chemicals. But wildcards – by …
When wildcards hit, your contingency planning is tested. Did you have enough of the key equipment or resourcesstockpiled, are you able to switch production fast enough? The coronavirus outbreak exposed…