The Future of Business: Critical Insights on a Rapidly Changing World From 60 Futurists

by Rohit Talwar (Editor/Co-Author), B.J. Murphy (Co-Author), Gray Scott (Co-Author)

The Future of Business is the first book in the FutureScapes series. The book focuses on the critical social and economic forces, business trends, disruptive technologies, breakthrough developments in science and new ideas that could reshape the commercial environment over the next two decades. It explores how these future factors could come together to force a fundamental rethinking of the purpose, strategy, business models, values and structures of organizations as they seek to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing reality.

The Future of Business draws on the latest rich and challenging insights, ideas and visions from over 60 contributing authors - established and emerging futurists, foresight researchers and future thinkers from around the world.

The Future of Business explores the business implications of political, economic and social shifts, cybercurrencies, new business models, and the long term impact of disruptive developments such as neurotechnologies, gene editing, 3D printing, new energy solutions, AI and robotics. It explores the potential emergence of new industries and new organizational forms, and highlights practical strategies for exploring and embedding the future.

The Future of Business is the first book in FutureScapes series being launched by Fast Future Publishing. The book targeted at a business and generalist audience and is designed to be a wide ranging reference source on the trends, ideas and developments that could shape all our futures.

The Future of Business is essential reading for business leaders, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to stay ahead of the curve understand how our world and the world of work could be transformed over the next two decades.

Can be purchased here: http://fob.fastfuturepublishing.com/

Genres: Science, Business

576 pages, Paperback

First published June 23, 2015

Reviews

[Yates Buckley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Future of Business is a compilation of work from a diverse group of professional and lay futurologists and future thinkers. Rohit Talwar with the help of others has collected, revised and help make clearer the work of this diverse group. The output volume is unique in that it covers a broad diversity of views and perspectives, different level of domain knowledge, and different ideas about the future.
I participated in the text with a chapter on The Future of Advertising in which I describe how I see the balance between personal privacy and the opportunity deriving from the exploitation of it balancing in a not too distant future. Basically, you will need to trust your digital personal assistant for it to be useful to you, and so you will share your personal private information with it only under certain controls.

[Darryl Hill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good book although quite a mission to get through. Lots of thoughts and insights. Definitely some points to ponder and great for future business ideas.