The Real-Time Enterprise
and Competitive Advantage
Dr. James Canton
CEO & Chairman
GlobalFuturist.com

Key Themes
• Innovation future trends
• Business agility
• State & future of economy
• How to thrive in turbulence
• Real-Time competitive
advantage

Institute for Global Futures
• We Forecast Future Trends
• Keynotes, Consulting, Reports

Are you Future-Ready
What is your Vision?

Worldwide Clients

Extreme Future is Now

Accelerated
Change
Fantastic
Disruptions

Extreme Future:
More Risk More Opportunity

Future of Business: From Crisis to Agility
• Current state
• Honest analysis
• Enable customers
• Positive future vision
• Redefine value
• Invest in innovation

Future-Ready? Are You Prepared

Business Agility is:
Velocity & Smart Action that
Creates Value

Business Agility:
Three Strategies
• Anticipatory Sensing—Predictive Awareness
• Intelligent & Fast Response to Change

Business Agility
• Smart Action: Move from Possibility to Opportunity

Business Agility Domains
• Mindset
• Leadership
• Organization
• Culture

Global Population Rises
Global Population has Doubled
Over the Past 45 Years

Huge Global Market 2020
8 Billion Customers: Over 150 Nations

Huge Emerging Markets
• Will you be Future-Ready?

Key Themes
This is the Early Stage
of Global Innovation
Economy

Innovations Will Come Faster

Get Ready: Fast Radical Innovation

Disruptions Will Cut Deeper

Future Innovations will Drive
Competitive Advantage

CERN: Era of Extreme Change

The Extreme Future
Dr. James Canton
CEO & Chairman
Futureguru.com

Key Biz Driver: Innovation Darwinism
Innovate,
Adapt
Or
Die

Competitive Advantage: From Vision
to Execution

Innovation: Key Driver of Global GDP

Future Innovation Landscape

Global Innovation Economy
• New Economic Definition
• Fusion Business/Tech
• Top Business Driver

Total Global Innovation Investment Market
Forecast: 1 Trillion 2005--2015

Innovation Ecosystem
Running Out of Oil?

Define Innovation
Ideas that create
value:
• Solutions
• Growth
• Efficiency
• Profit

Innovation Mindset
• Courage to create
• Collaboration
• OK to experiment
• Break the rules

Innovation Empowers Customers

Edge Cultures: Innovation Hubs

Fast Changing Tech Landscape
• Web 2.0 Internet 2
• Wireless
• Geospatial
• Semantic
• Digital Lifestyle

New Chips: Mems, Biometric, RFID,
GPS, FPGA

What’s the Sound of Ten Billion
Chips Talking in Real-Time?

IT Future Trends: Embedded
Intelligence Everywhere
• Distributed Artificial Intelligence
• Mission Critical Decision Enhancement
• Autonomous Agent Hives, Swarms, Colonies

New Chips: Nano, Quantum, Photon

Future Computers will Evolve
Jcanton@futureguru.com

Quantum Computing

Robots & Humans: Co-Evolution
Jcanton@futureguru.com

Robots & Humans: Co-Evolution
Jcanton@futureguru.com

Future Computers: Biomemetic

The Quantum Future
• Storage
• Communications
• Encryption
• Human Enhancement
• Manipulation Time-Space

Imagine the Possibilities: AI & Rules

Digital Cash

Imagine the Possibilities

Brave New Internet
• Deep Collaboration
• Intuitive
• Self-Learning
• Self-Organizing
• Singularity?

100 billion Euros:10 Year Global
Forecast: Web 2.0-3.0 Transforms Biz
Innovation Investment Forecast
Enhancement of
HumanPerformance

Internet 3: The Collaborative Web

Key Themes

NextGen: The Collaborative Web

Key Themes

Holistic Agile Biz Architecture

GPS, DNA, Robotics Mashup

The NanoTech Changes Everything:
Wealth, Power, Society and Business
• Energy
• Communications
• Smart Materials
• Agriculture
• Transportation
• Computing
• NanoBiology

DNA Computi ng

Personalized Medicine: NanoBio

Conquering Disease at the
Atomic Scale: Designed Care
• From InSilico Biology, to Molecular Delivery, to
Intracellular NanoBiology
• The Evolution of Applied NanoMedicine

Nanotechnology
By 2010, The Nanotechnology Market is
Forecasted at 1 Trillion US Dollars
National Science Foundation

Nanotech: Smarter, Smaller
Communications Products

Molecular Engines: Self-Assembly

Molecular Engines of Creation

Define Innovation
Ideas that create
value:
• Speed
• Growth
• Efficiency
• Agility

Bucky Balls: Manufacturing Revolution

Summary
• Future Smart--Be a future
innovation leader—most
powerful competitive advantage
• Empower Customers
• Agility---Anticipate and React
with Velocity and New Meaning
• Refresh Models and Strategy
• Rethink Products/Services for
new competitive advantage,
value differentiators