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We are in 2012. New year brings in a whole new set of  Trends, Ideas and Predictions from the global community. Here is a quick snapshot of all posts we have come across. We will keep updating this list and at the same time look forward to your views and comments.

Global Trends

What will the world be like in 2025 ?

• Hyper Innovation
• Centralised Survival
• Shared Ownership
• Prosperity Redefined

Changing Views on the World of Economic Growth and Recovery

• Frugality on the part of the global consumer (living within our means; retirement with dignity)
• Austerity on the part of sovereigns (spending cuts/tax reform)
• Nationalism (an umbrella for protectionism and isolationism: mean reversion for globalization)
• Political movement along the ideological and fiscal spectrum (from gridlock to change)
• Geopolitical change (wars, elections and regime changes)
• Changes in inflationary/deflationary expectations
• Changes in growth expectations
• Changes in asset allocation preference (fund-flows/de-risking)

Euro RSCG Worldwide Predicts Top Trends for 2012

• The U.S. State of Mind.
• The Prime Crisis/Education Correlation.
• Re-feathering the Empty Nest.
• The Always-Ticking Millennial.
• Transportation in Tip-Top Shape.
• Hyperlocal vs. Universal.
• Be Private, Be Present.
• iWars.
• Double-Dip Frugality.
• The Focused Foodie.
• Semi-Scientific Voodoo Medicine.
• Retreat from Reality

Predicting The Direction Of World-Changing Innovation In 2012

• Rock bottom solar prices
• More people power
• Mounting pressure for companies to become environmentally responsible
• Local everything
• Zero net energy buildings

10 trends that will shape the world in 2012

20 Ideas for 2012

• Make the transformations required to avoid the 20-year slump
• Radical openness
• Pulling the plug: making communication a right in the Digital Age
• Take action to prevent a worldwide youth explosion
• Shift to new models of global problem-solving
• The Arab seasons: Getting beyond wiki revolutions to democratic, secular governments
• As the Old Media collapse, improve how We inform ourselves as societies
• Ending the government debt crisis: New models for cheaper, better government
• New models of regulation: The citizen regulator
• Kick-start job creation through entrepreneurship
• Privacy in the age of social networking
• Reversing the tide of climate change through global networks
• New models of democracy for the Digital Age
• Opening up the financial services industry
• New models in health: Towards collaborative healthcare
• A next step for social media: social business?
• New models for the music and entertainment industries
• New models for higher education: collaborative learning and content creation
• The new demographic revolution: Embracing the Net Generation as young adults
• The New power of the commons

28 Major Trends for 2012 and Beyond – Part 1

• Retail 2.0
• Crowdfunnding
• The Persistent “Big Life” Opportunity
• Emerging Data Marketplace
• Smartphone Peripherals
• The Coming Age of Micro-Incomers
• Data Visualization Trends
• Regionalization of the Internet
• The End of an Era – Faster than Ever
• Poor Lifestyles Hurting Long-term Health
• Reversing the Obesity Trends
• Fast-Niche Online Universities
• Teaching Entrepreneurship and the Rise of the Accelerator
• Information Doesn’t Want to be Free
• Exploding Smartphone Industry
• Hyper-Local Urban Farming Going Underground
• The Gamification of Business
• Going Cashless
• Ending the Dream of Home Ownership
• Accomplishment-Based Education
• Driverless Cars and Autonomous Vehicles
• The Drone Side of Life
• The Coming Transparency Wars
• Dismantling the Justice System
• Going Waitless
• Power of 10 Interface
• Emergence of Food Printers
• The Self-Health Movement

Technology

8 top tech trends for media to watch in 2012

• HTML5 powering the mobile app economy
• Seamless media consumption experience cross-device
• Apps powering the desktop media experience
• Social channels for media consumption
• Personalized media experience for consumers
• Mobile advertising hits the tipping point
• Mobile traffic passes the desktop
• Privacy legislation may slow adoption of new technology

Top tech trends at CES 2012

• OLED stole the show
• Smarter TVs
• Cars are becoming more connected
• Ultrabooks point the way forward for laptops

Frog’s 2012 Technology Trend Predictions

5 Business Tech Trends You Need to Watch

• Fewer new business cellphones
• A more business-focused Microsoft
• The birth of the “business TV”
• Using your smartphone to make your car smart
• On-the-go, cloud-based printing

The Top 10 tech trends for 2012

• Touch Computing
• Social Gestures
• NFC and Mobile Payments
• Beyond the iPad
• TV Everywhere
• Voice Control
• Spatial Gestures
• Second-screen experiences
• Flexible screens
• HTML5

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2012

• Geo-spatial Visualization
• Digital Identities
• Data Goes to Work
• Measured Innovation
• Outside-in Architecture
• Social Business
• Hyper-hybrid Cloud
• Enterprise Mobility Unleashed
• Gamification
• User Empowerment

Amy Webb: Big data, mobile payments, and identity authentication will be big in 2012

• Big Data
• OR (Object Recognition)
• Graphic Interface
• Topics
• Privacy Concerns
• Women
• Ethics Concerns and Digital Content
• Technology Leads Revolutions
• Co-Viewing/ Social TV Programs
• The YouTube Network
• Elections Coverage
• Mobile Scanning and OCR
• Context-Aware Mobile Apps
• Mobile Payments
• Digital Identity Authentication

6 Big Internet Trends To Watch For In 2012

• Big Data + Cloud
• Mobilization of Consumers and Workers
• Socialization of Everything Online
• Entertainment + Social = Revolution
• Ad Buying: The Move to Online Continues
• Disruption of Venture Capital: Circling the Trains

Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2012 and Beyond

• By 2015, low-cost cloud services will cannibalize up to 15 percent of top outsourcing players’ revenue.
• In 2013, the investment bubble will burst for consumer social networks, and for enterprise social software companies in 2014.
• By 2016, at least 50 percent of enterprise email users will rely primarily on a browser, tablet or mobile client instead of a desktop client.
• By 2015, mobile application development projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4-to-1.
• By 2016, 40 percent of enterprises will make proof of independent security testing a precondition for using any type of cloud service.
• At year-end 2016, more than 50 percent of Global 1000 companies will have stored customer-sensitive data in the public cloud.
• By 2015, 35 percent of enterprise IT expenditures for most organizations will be managed outside the IT department’s budget.
• By 2014, 20 percent of Asia-sourced finished goods and assemblies consumed in the U.S. will shift to the Americas.
• By 2015, the prices for 80 percent of cloud services will include a global energy surcharge.
• Through 2015, more than 85 percent of Fortune 500 organizations will fail to effectively exploit big data for competitive advantage.

Banking and Financial Services: 5 Key Technology Trends for 2012

• Online customer-facing technology
• Mobile, tablet, and social computing
• Integrating online channels with customer service
• Cloud computing
• Smart implementation of regulatory and compliance systems

Data

2012 Data Security Trends : A look at the risks ahead

• More Big Data heists. More small-business losses
• Going Mobile: Smartphones solidify position as a gateway to sensitive data
• It’s a multi-screen, multi-platform environment
• Move Over Financial Sector

Big Data Trends in 2012

• Data Analytics Service
• Data Visualization Service
• Crowdsourcing Model
• RDBMS vendors will make a comeback
• NoSQL market will shake up
• Data Analysis Libraries

Web Design

Top 5 Web Design Trends For 2012

• User Experience / User Interface
• Mobile
• Typography
• Rich Colours and Textures
• HTML 5 and CSS3

Web Design Trends of 2012

• Mobile Browsing
• Responsive Design
• CSS3 & Animations
• Print Design Elements
• Big Type
• Big Images
• Single Page Sites
• Parallax Sites
• Realistic Perspective
• Fixed Navigation

Cloud

Five trends that will dominate the “cloud” in 2012

• Hybrid is the new black – and we’re not talking cars.
• Tablets meet the other “Jobs” — the ones we go to everyday.
• Offshoring is out, on-shoring is in.
• Freemium isn’t really free.
• Cloud commuting will get big

10 Cloud Predictions For 2012

Cloud Computing: IBM’s Top 12 Tech Trends for 2012 Include Cloud, Analytics, Mobile

• Four Keys
• Educating Watson
• Big Data and Analysis
• Analytics Skills
• Mobile Adoption
• Mobile Computing Skills
• Cloud Implementations
• Cloud Adoption
• Cloud Computing Skills
• Social Business
• Geographic Adoption
• Software Development Skills

7 Trends in Cloud Data for 2012

• More hybrid data storage environments combining cloud storage with existing storage
• More private cloud environments in enterprise companies
• Disaster recovery to the cloud becomes a viable option
• Disaster recovery from the cloud may become a need
• Easier on boarding of applications to the cloud
• Non-relational databases for big data
• “Cloud-envy” from environments that are not using the cloud

2012: Top 5 Trends for Cloud Computing

• The Cloud Outages will Propel the Organizations to Forage for Better Quality Service Providers.
• The Key Player: Hybrid Cloud Computing
• The Cloud Bursts as the Global Economic Crisis Swell
• The Rapid Demand for Cloud Security
• OpenStack: the Future of Open Source Cloud Solutions

Business Intelligence

2012 IT Outlook – The End Of Business As We Know It

• Cloud computing will become mainstream
• Cloud computing will drive mobile computing
• Social media will be widely integrated into business activities

Top 10 trends in business intelligence

• Huge knowledge gets even larger
• Self-reliance is that the new self-service
• The pace toward the “Computerization of Enterprise Software” accelerates
• Mobile adoption goes mainstream
• Corporations get (a very little more) snug with social
• Corporations explore the cloud
• Analytical talent can become a needed a part of many roles… resulting in talent shortages
• IT and business users still dance around “alignment”
• Interactive knowledge visualization becomes a demand
• Hadoop gathers momentum

Small Business Software Trends for 2012

• Pricing
• Two new categories of mission critical applications
• Cloud security
• Online Storage
• Ease of use improves daily or often.
• More hardware tools
• Mobile SaaS is growing.
• Tablets are creating cloud comfort
• Collaboration
• HTML5 is shifting how we look at apps and software
• Landline telephone use is declining
• Amazon’s Infrastructure as a Service will increase adoption of custom SaaS

Digital Innovation

The Evolving Digital Ecosystem

• The Always On Web
• Web of Things
• Big Data
• Next Gen Search
• Mobile Sharing
• Mobile Social Activism
• Impulse Commerce
• Brands As Partners
• The New Living Room
• Personal Data Security

Predicting The Direction Of World-Changing Innovation In 2012

• Rock Bottom Solar Prices
• More People Power
• Environment Responsibility
• Local Everything
• Zero Net Energy Buildings

Innovative Ideas to Watch in 2012

• The Slacktivism Co-Opt
• Counting on Self-Quantifiers for Growth
• Gerontabletification
• Globalizing Grand Challenges
• Handheld Augmented Reality
• The Greenlash Arrives

Trends for 2012 – Ten innovators share their thoughts.

• Thought Process
• Building Personal Brand
• Understanding role of Social Media in Business
• Open Government data and APIs
• Video Chat and Sharing Systems
• Go Local
• Trend of Obscurity
• Age of Sharing
• 3rd Part Technology
• Model of Raising Capital

2012 – The Year of the Interface – What Drives Digital Innovation?

• The Cloud
• Client Side Scripting
• Linked Data
• Mobile Explosion:
• The Design of Everyday Things
• The Evolving Interface
• The Next Generation
• The Second Screen

Five big things to watch out for in 2012

• Consumer apps capitalize on the corporate market
• The wearable tech gold rush
• Living room revolution
• Banking 2.0
• Hands-free and eyes-free UI

Ten Digital Trends Set to Go Mass-Market In 2012

• Your inner circle
• Personalized News
• Rent, don’t own
• Seamless transactions
• Home, body, web
• Ubiquitous accessibility
• The reliable subscription
• Short-term nostalgic obsessions
• Location-based discovery
• Control over data

Five digital life ideas for the new year

• Think Apps
• Data plans matter more
• Cloud Storage is a good idea
• Offline-online integration
• Smart TVs are cool

Fjord Digital Trends 2012

Marketing and PR

Landor’s 2012 trends forecast: Market trends and their impact on brands

• Naming
• Return of the boomers in the U.S.
• Trending
• Image sharing
• Luxury in China
• Innovation
• Mobile
• On-demand media
• Design
• Built to change

Five key branded content trends for 2012

• Digital magazines will evolve and extend beyond apps and PDFs
• Brands will be focusing more on content than on apps
• Old fashioned editorial values are back in vogue
• Print is not dead
• This might be the year of the Kindle

Brand Trends 2011 and a Prognosis for 2012

Media and Advertising

5 Key Digital Media and Advertising Trends for 2012

• Social Curation and Mobile Will Drive Growth for Media Organizations
• The Impact of the Second Screen on Television
• An Explosion of Content for Connected TVs
• Connectivity in the Car Makes Autos the Next Great Platform
• Mobile Commerce Brings it All Together

The Guardian Predicts: Media & Advertising Trends In 2012

• Media Business
• Advertising

Online Advertising Trends 2012

• Bespoke, integration, communication and efficiency
• Use Big Data to solve customer intelligence problems.
• Enhanced interactivity
• Advertising with social elements
• Video Advertising

Digital Marketing

Facebook, Google, Twitter and More: 12 Predictions for 2012

• Facebook Goes Public, But Won’t Start IPO Landslide
• Facebook Ad Business Booms–But Not at Google’s Expense
• Image Ads Finally Find a Home on the Web
• Data-Driven Advertising Accelerates
• Web-Native Brand Ad Formats Will Remain MIA
• Twitter (Almost) Becomes a Real Business
• Mobile Ads Finally Get Moving
• Amazon.com Becomes an Online Advertising Player
• App Overload Sets In
• Tabzines Debut
• This Revolution Will Be Televised
• The Web Startup Bubble Will Start to Deflate

5 Best Practices for Digital Marketers in 2012

• Own Your Voice, Don’t Share It.
• Resolve to Be Relevant
• Context is King, and Content is Queen.
• The Data is Smarter. Are You?
• They’ve Changed the Channel.

2012: The trends every marketer should be aware of

• Online will be used specifically to drive in-store retailing
• Online marketing will be driven by smart multichannel attribution
• Bing/Yahoo!’s share of the search market will flatten out globally
• Brands will invest more in generating a deeper understanding of customer intent
• Facebook won’t master social commerce

Video Marketing Trends in 2012

• Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded
• It’s déjà vu all over again
• It ain’t over ’till it’s over

Top 5 Trends for Search & Social Media Marketing in 2012

• Mainstream Organizations Adopt Marketing Automation & Social CRM
• Social Media Becomes an Increasing Factor in Search Algorithms
• Customers and Employees Become an Extended Part of Companies’ Marketing Teams
• Mobile + Social Evolve Together to Create New User Scenarios
• Daily Deals Receive Prominence in Search Engine Result Pages

Social Media

Some Key Social Media Trends To Look For In 2012

• Social TV Integration
• TV Is Going Online in a Big Way
• Facebook Credits Take Center stage
• Big Business Has Woken Up
• ROI Is Still Huge

Social Media: Five Facts to Bank On in 2012

• The Face of Facebook Pages is Changing. Again.
• Google+ Is Not Going Away
• Paid and Earned Media Work Best Together
• Social is Mobile and Mobile is Finally Social
• Move Fast, Or Move Out of the Way

2012 Social Media Business Trends

• Building Communities - Businesses are more and more looking at social media marketing as a strategic business driver now, with more insistence on accountability, measurement and quantification.
• Branding – Brands focus on transparency and accountability and creating a positive social impact within communities.
• Mobile - Mobile will be center stage of social media, location based messaging and between people will increase.
• Customer Service - Companies to use social monitoring and analytics tools to understand sentiments.
• Crowdsourcing - Crowdsourcing becomes one of the most cost effective ways for SMEs to engage their stakeholders.
• Small Businesses - Networking. Sharing stories and learning. Finding potential customers, partners.
• Retail - Addition of non digital shopping apps, allowing consumers to buy and feature goods and services through social network platforms.
• B2B - Networking. Sharing stories and learning. Finding potential customers, partners.
• Technology - Marketing technology will continue to converge, social media features to embed into all types of products and services
• Marketing - Social media will move beyond Marketing, PR and Customer service and become an extension of businesses, employee, customer and partner base.
• SEO - Social media will move beyond Marketing, PR and Customer service and become an extension of businesses, employee, customer and partner base.
• Advertising - Social media will continue to become everyone’s primary source of content and interaction.
• PR - PR community will gain real time insights and shape conversations based on responses.

Six Social Media Trends for 2012

• Convergence Emergence
• The Cult of Influence
• Gamification Nation
• Social Sharing
• Social Television
• The Micro Economy

Trends for 2012: Social Media Intelligence

Facebook won’t master social commerce in 2012 and other trends

Facebook won’t master social commerce

Online will be used specifically to drive in-store retailing

Online marketing will be driven by smart multi-channel attribution

Bing/Yahoo!’s share of the search market will flatten out globally

Brands will invest more in generating a deeper understanding of customer intent

21 Social Media Marketing Trends for 2012

Mobile

Predictions on mobile telecommunications for 2012

• Asia will beat out both Europe and the U.S. in tablet sales.
• RIM will fend off Nokia/Microsoft to stay in the smartphone top 3.
• Android will make it a consumerization triumvirate in the enterprise.
• Emerging markets operators will invest more in HSPA+ than LTE. T
• IP-based Diameter signaling will take control.
• Despite vendor hype, cloud RAN will remain a wisp.
• Personal clouds will hit prosumers’ radar.
• Video consumption on tablets will more than double in the first six months.
• HTML5 will cross the enterprise tipping point.
• More than half of mobile malware signatures will target Android.
• North American enterprises will buy into 3G/4G M2M.
• Multiple uber-TSMs will emerge–and do battle.
• At least one U.S. prepaid operator will beat out postpaids on Net Promoter Score (NPS).
• Economic woes will contribute to an additional 7 million Europeans switching providers

100 Trends that define Youth Mobile Culture in 2012

10 predictions for mobile in 2012

• NFC
• Security
• Privacy
• Nokia/Microsoft Alliance
• HTML 5
• SMS
• Games
• Mobile Payments
• Apps and multi-screen
• Geo-social

16 predictions for mobile in 2012

• Wearable computing becomes the next mobile frontier
• We’ll remotely connect to our smart homes
• A jump in wireless home broadband adoption
• Windows Phone usage grows, but slower than expected
• Windows tablets in 2012 will sell like Android tablets did in 2011
• Research In Motion will no longer exist as we know it today
• Nokia uses Symbian as a backup plan (but doesn’t call it Symbian)
• The patent wars worsen
• Dual-core devices will outsell quad-core devices
• Apple’s next iPhone will be the iPhone 4GS
• There will be an iPad Pro available in 2012
• Google will split off Motorola not long after its purchase goes though
• Android’s momentum will continue thanks to Android 4.0
• Hybrid apps with HTML5 will be the norm
• Intel will announce that 2013 is the year it really gets into the mobile market
• We’ll see a smaller Kinect in 2012, with expectations that such technology fits in a mobile device the following year

Five mobile trends to look out for in 2012

• Mobile Advertising
• Mobile Coupons
• Mobile Web
• Mobile Commerce
• Mobile Video

7 Mobile Trends for 2012

• More Optimization for Mobile Devices
• Apps On All Platforms
• BYOD Arrives in Mass
• HTML5 Gives Growth to Web Apps
• Hybrid Apps
• NFC = Not Fully Cooked
• Nokia and Microsoft Arrive, Again

10 Cutting-edge Mobile Application Trends for 2012

Enterprise mLearning Predictions for 2012

• Mobile Learning Goes Mainstream
• Access Points Diversify
• Mobile Web vs. Mobile App Debate Intensifies
• Flash Falters, HTML5 & ePUBs Gain in Popularity
• Gamification Accelerates mLearning Adoption
• Fewer but More Capable Tablets
• Cool Mobile Tech Sparks Learning Innovations
• Market Consolidations Continue/Accelerate

The key trends in Mobile Advertising for India in 2012

• Only smart phones will browse?… Wrong. All phones will browse!
• Mobile internet users will be twice of PC internet users  by the end of 2012
• Embracing advertising across all mobile devices – feature phones, smart phones and tablets
• Ad funded Mobile TV apps will gain traction
• The rise and rise of the ‘Inde-developer’

CRM and Data

CRM and Digital Convergence: Trends for 2012

• Social Everything
• Real-Time Marketing
• Internet of Things
• The “Joined Up” Relationships
• Customer Control
• Mobile
• The Data Fire Hose
• People

6 E-CRM Trends to consider for 2012

• Brands as curators
• Social CRM makes strides forward
• Customer service now seen as key within overall brand experience
• Service communities
• Behavioural advertising and mobile CRM
• Mobile CRM and CRM investment

Customer Experience: 12 Predictions for 2012

• Content as a REST Stop. Content as an Accessible Business Platform
• Big Data Comes To Web CMS
• Social Business Process & Governance Become Priorities
• Contextually Aware Content And Behavioral Targeting — The New WEM
• RIP Websites — The Web Is Now Everywhere
• Best of Breed Across the Enterprise
• The “Triple Play” of Intranet, Extranet & Internet Merge
• SEO Evolves, Becomes More Social
• Textual Content Gets a Demotion — Video is Crowned King in 2012
• At Least Two New Interfaces in 2012
• The Internet of Things Says “Hello World”
• Social & Web Merge And Become Hyper-Personal

Five big data predictions for 2012

• More powerful and expressive tools for analysis
• Streaming data processing
• Rise of data marketplaces
• Development of data science workflows and tools
• Increased understanding of and demand for visualization

Customer Experience and Service

The Top Thirteen Customer Management Trends For 2012

• Customer experience management will move beyond aspiration to strategy
• Brands will embrace the experience ecosystem
• Experience management will emerge as a management discipline
• Organizations will strive to domesticate untamed processes.
• Target operating models will link customer experience with process
• Agile implementation approaches will take root
• Social customer engagement tactics will become more widely used.
• Mobile applications will empower customer-facing workers and consumers
• The move to the cloud will continue, intensifying governance challenges
• Big data and agile BI will move to center stage
• Solutions will converge to support multichannel customer interactions
• Business leaders will refresh their change management skills.
• The voice of the customer will become an engine for culture change

The consumer trends that will shape our world

• Mobile brings it all together.
• Selling the experience
• Screen culture
• The future of deals
• Authenticity gives way to ‘flawsome’
• Bottom of the developed world’s pyramid

12 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2012

Customer Service in 2012 (And Beyond)

• Call Center” market.
• Contact Center
• Cloud Market
• Improved Efficiency

12 Trends in Voice of the Customer for 2012

• Unstructured Data Analysis
• Maximizing insight from existing info
• Becoming Proactive
• Making Customer Insight part of the brand experience
• Data Rich Environments
• The right channel for the right customer at the right time.

Five “Medium Insights” for 2012

Business & Entrepreneurship

Five Big Trends in Business Innovation in 2012

• Strategy and entrepreneurship will have ever-greater interdependence
• Access to assets will be replacing ownership of assets
• The tradeoff between reach and richness will continually diminish.
• Mass markets will be micro-fragmenting.
• Oblique competition will become ubiquitous
• Implications.

10 Startup Trends That Will Be Huge In 2012

• Decision
• Collaborative Commerce
• Customization
• True Mobility
• Creativity
• Urban farming
• Gamification
• Design
• Extreme fitness
• Jobs

Social Business Predictions for 2012

• Social shifts to mobile
• Analytics and business intelligence becomes standard fare
• Gamification doesn’t happen yet
• Social intranets struggle forward, social business processes don’t
• Smaller social business vendors continue to get rolled up
• The social business unit/center of excellence phenomenon continues
• Internal and external social business efforts blur, but remain distinct
• Customer-facing social “hockey sticks”
• Community management goes pro
• Social business budgets go up another level
• The year will close with a consensus (or lack thereof) on enterprise social apps
• Social business becomes less art, and more science.

Franchise

10 Industry Trends for Franchises in 2012

• Burgers
• Child Care
• Children’s Enrichment
• Fitness
• Health Services
• Resale Stores
• Sandwiches
• Senior Care
• Spa Services
• Education

Talent and Workplace

10 Workplace Trends to Watch in 2012

• Mobile Devices
• Telecommuting
• Open office spaces
• Instant communication
• Online collaboration tools
• Web-based software
• Reverse mentoring
• Independent contractors
• Co-working spaces
• Corporate culture initiatives

10 Predictions for 2012: The Top Trends in Talent Management and Recruiting

• 2012 Will Be “The Year of the Mobile Platform”
• Intense hiring competition will return in selected areas
• Retention issues will increase dramatically
• Social media increases its impact by becoming more data-driven
• Remote work changes everything in talent management
• The need for speed shifts the balance between development and recruiting
• Employee referrals are coupled with social media
• Employer branding returns
• The candidate experience is finally getting the attention it deserves
• Forward-looking metrics begin to dominate

Five Workplace Trends for 2012

• Movement from management principles to leadership values
• A focus on workplace culture as a means to grow the business
• Diversity makes a comeback
• Rise of virtual work relationships.
• Organizations are getting flatter

Corporate comms trends to watch in 2012

• We’re all publishers now.
• Please don’t leave. It’ll get better
• The death of internal email?
• The social intranet catches fire.
• The invasion of the community managers.
• Social analytics speeds up business decisions.
• Leadership adopts social communication tools.
• Learning becomes child’s play
• Employees choose their weapon.
• Ask the world.
• Clouds form above.
• Video grows in internal and external comms
• Augmented reality

Retail Industry

Deloitte: 2012 Global Retail Industry Trends

• Away from home
• Across channels
• Mobile
• What about the store?
• From data to personalization

Telecom Industry

Twelve 2012 Predictions For The Telecom Industry

• The global telecommunications services market will grow at a 4% rate in 2012, down from 7% in 2011. The drop is a result of the rising volatility and uncertainty in the global economy.
• Total service revenue for the global telecom services market will reach $1.7 trillion or 2.4% of global GDP (gross domestic product) in 2012.
• Emerging market players like America Movil, Airtel and MTN will move up in the global rankings of telecom companies while developed market players like Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone will lose ground. The regions America Movil, Airtel and MTN dominate – Latin America, India and Africa, respectively – are simply more high-growth markets for telecom.
• The number of global mobile subscriptions will pass the 6 billion mark in February. Asia-Pacific – on its own, as a region – will pass the 3 billion marker in January.
• India will pass China to become the world’s largest mobile market in terms of subscriptions.
• The 4G technology WiMax (once championed by Sprint in the U.S.) will see the beginning of its end in Asia. Like operators in other regions, Asian operators will opt for the rival 4G technology LTE instead.
• Broadband penetration of the world’s population will pass the 10% mark globally.
• Operators will pay more attention to the business opportunity of “M2M” or machine-to-machine connections. Investment and innovation in M2M (think smart energy meters and fleet trackers for logistics) will follow.
• Operators’ growth will increasingly depend on their having a cloud computing strategy, an approach for the high-growth IT service market and a clear value proposition for the enterprise market.
• IPTV (Internet Protocol TV – think Verizon’s FiOS or AT&T’s U-verse) penetration of the world’s population will pass the 1% mark globally.
• The number of active (installed) PCs worldwide will pass the 2 billion mark.
• The mobile handset market will surpass the $200 billion mark.

Luxury

2012 Luxury Industry Predictions from the Experts

• China: Tier Time
• Design: Fresh & Fantastical Optimism
• Digital: Continued Convergence
• Fine Jewellery: Seasonality & Sustainability
• Fine Wines: Beyond Bordeaux
• Timepieces: Innovative Independents
• Wealth: Generation Next

Top 8 Luxury Travel & Marketing Trends for 2012

• The Hunt for Value: Engaging and Entertaining
• A New Language of Luxury
• Differentiation by Lifestyle Immersion
• The Now Frontier – Content Marketing
• Marketing Functions Converge, Transform
• Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage
• Mini Indulgences, VIP for a Fee
• The Renter Economy

Why luxury defines our society and what to expect in 2012

Healthcare

Healthcare Futurist Jack Uldrich Presents Top Ten Trends in Healthcare for 2012

• Genomics
• Robotics
• Sensors
• Smartphone applications
• Artificial intelligence
• Tissue engineering
• Gaming dynamics
• Data mining
• Mobile web video
• Social networking.

4 leading trends and technologies that will transform health and healthcare in 2012 and beyond

• Tele-Health Services
• Remote Monitoring and Mobile Health
• The Kinect Effect and Health Gaming
• Big Data, Cloud and Analytics

David Kerr: 2012, technology and all that

• Healthcare Technology Trends

5 mobile healthcare trends for 2012

Spa Industry

Trends large and small bubbling in spa industry

• Cold and Ice
• Color, Light, Music, Vibration
• Happy Feet
• Glambition
• Family Affair
• Wows big and Little

Healthy Spa trends for 2012

• Focus on feet
• Hot/Cold Therapies
• Wellness Coaching
• Online Wellness Gaming
• Healthy food/spa combo packages
• Vibration, Sound, Music, Light and Color Therapies

Hotel Industry

Hotel Guru’s top 10 hospitality industry trends for 2012

• Hoteliers Will Invest in Reinvigorating Properties To Take Advantage of the Market
• There Will Be Little to No New Development Dollars on the Debt or Equity Side
• Online Booking Will Continue to (Modestly) Grow
• More Mobile Bookings and Research
• Demand and Average Rate are Up In Most Markets, but Not Equally Distributed
• Revenue Management Will Make the Art of Managing a Hotel More of a Science
• Proliferation of Distribution Channel Management Will Largely Impact Pricing
• Brands Will Put More Money into Deals to Expand Market Share
• Prepare for Growth
• Social Media Will Continue to Transform Connections with Travelers

Education and Learning

Key Trends for 2012: New Era of Personal Learning is Transforming the Training Industry

• Spend for Training Services Remains Conservative
• Job Market Remains Static
• Evolution of Learning Portals
• Formalizing Informal Learning
• Growth of Gamification
• Social Badging, the New Tool of Recognition
• Growing Focus on Knowledge Retention
• Consolidation is a Key Strategy among Buyers and Suppliers
• Outsourcing Grows While Offshoring Retrenches
• Social Learning is Still a Facilitated Process

12 Education Tech Trends to Watch in 2012

• Mobile Phones
• BYOD (Bring your own Device)
• Bandwidth Issues
• Natural User Interface
• Web Apps (HTML5)
• Data
• Adaptive Learning
• Privacy/Security
• Open Licensing
• Peer to Peer
• The Maker Movement
• Gaming

Food and Grocery Industry

The top ten food industry trends for 2012