The document summarizes six world trends shaping the global environment: emerging markets gaining power, clean technology becoming competitive, global banking seeking transformation, governments enhancing ties with the private sector, rapid technology innovation creating a smart mobile world, and demographic shifts transforming the workforce. It then discusses how successful organizations embrace change by becoming customer-obsessed and focusing on innovation, value creation, and collaboration. Five world trends - useful, free, social, local, and personal - act as catalysts for new opportunities.