Archives for the 'Trends in Culture' Category

Michael Tchong TrendShow

Interesting video about trends with trendspotter Michael Tchong.

3 August 2008 | Into the Future, Lifestyle Trends, Trends in Retail, Trends in Technology, Trends in Culture, Trends in Energy, Trends in Entertainment | No Comments

Impressive Video about the Consumption Society

Here is “The Story of Stuff”: an excellent video about the consumption society and about how we are destroying our planet. It criticizes specially the United States.
At least the end is kind of positive because it mentions some “green” trends taking place…

28 June 2008 | Trends At Work, Trends in Marketing, World Business Trends, Globalization, Into the Future, Lifestyle Trends, Advertising Trends, Trends in Retail, Trends in Food, Trends in Ecology and Environment Conservation, Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation, Trends in Culture, Trends in Energy, Trends in Moral and Ethics, Trends in Entertainment, Trends in Products, Changing Business Models | No Comments

The Adaptation of Music Stores to the Times of Internet

An interesting article in Business Week talks about this adaptation, with the example of Other Music.

28 April 2008 | Trends in Marketing, Into the Future, Lifestyle Trends, Trends in Media, Innovation, Trends in Culture, Trends in Entertainment, Changing Business Models | No Comments

An interview with Kevin Roberts

An interview with Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, has been published by Knowledge at Wharton.
Kevin provides very interesting concepts. For example:
Brands were invented to charge premiums.
The power has switched from the big companies (such as P&G) to big retailers (such as Walmart) to the consumer.
There are three things that we think make a […]

3 April 2008 | Trends At Work, Trends in Marketing, World Business Trends, Coolest Trends, Into the Future, Lifestyle Trends, Advertising Trends, Trends in Retail, Trends in Technology, Trends in Media, Innovation, Trends in Culture, Trends in Entertainment | No Comments

Compensate Inefficacy With Inmorality

This seems to be the piece of advice given by an article published in the last North American edition of The Economist. It is surprising, coming from such a prestigious magazine.
Must we, then, also follow the recommendations of the book “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli, which states that “the end justifies the means”?
Do we live […]

28 December 2007 | Trends in Management, World Business Trends, Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility, Trends in Culture, Trends in Moral and Ethics | No Comments

New Website With Opinions: Hey! Nielsen

A new website where you can monitor trends by reading opinions on TV, movies, music, personalities, web sites and more: Hey! Nielsen. An interesting idea.

30 September 2007 | Lifestyle Trends, Internet Trends, Trends in Media, Trends in Culture | No Comments