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Construction, Cement, & Concrete
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Surfing the Waves of Change: The Future of the Construction Industry
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The world we grew up is vanishing, and the future we are headed for will be dramatically different. Richard Worzel is a strategic planner, a Chartered Financial Analyst, and one of today’s leading futurists. In this presentation, Richard will not only survey the rough waters ahead, but offer specific techniques for surfing the riding the crests of the waves ahead. Among the topics covered will be:
• How technology is going to change our economy, our society, and the construction industry, from materials to automation.
• How the global economy is turning everything we knew on its head, and why this leads straight to the need for new ways of innovation;
• What happens next with climate change and the Green Economy? Clearly this issue isn’t dead politically, but what’s happening beyond the debate?
• What’s ahead with the economic and financial problems of developed economies, and how should you prepare for it?
After providing a survey of the waves of change coming towards us, Richard will leave us with a tool kit for dealing with the changes to come that can change the way you do business immediately. ‘Surfing the waves of change will be exhilarating for those who are prepared,’ says Richard. ‘Those who aren’t will wipe out and sink from the scene.’
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How High Is Up: Bidding for Tomorrow's Business
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Is the boom in construction sustainable, or will it lead to tears, as the high-tech boom did in the late 1990s? For whom are we building, and where will they want to locate? How are the tastes and tides of society shifting? What is an ex-urban ring, and how will it affect your business? This provocative keynote addresses the fundamental factors that will make or break your future, and offers you a peak into the future to help your organization and your industry prepare for the technologies and techniques of the future. You'll walk away with not only an appreciation for how demographics, government actions, technology, geopolitics, and the global economy will affect your daily life, but new conceptual tools to deal with the uncertainties that are the only sure thing about tomorrow's world.
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Tomorrow's Work Space
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Futurist and strategic planner Richard Worzel takes us out 20 years into the future to consider the offices of tomorrow. In the process, he'll help us imagine the kind of work that we will be doing, how our tools and practices will change, what our workspaces will be like, where work will be done, and who will be doing it. Will today's trend towards home offices continue? If so, to what extent? What infrastructure will we need, and how will be it be different from today's office? How will we source materials, and, perhaps most difficult of all - where will we find skilled labor? Along the way, he'll outline the future of technology, global competition, government regulation, and demographics, and let us know how they will affect our businesses. In addition, changes in customer expectations will radically modify how we conduct business, and even whom we perceive our competition to be!
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Moving Into Tomorrow: Building Tomorrow's Homes
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Under the skin, today's homes seem very like the homes of fifty years ago, allowing for minor changes in taste and architecture, yet under the skin there are dramatic differences. These differences are tiny compared to the changes coming the home building industry over the next 10, 20, 30 years or more. Start with genetics - how will it change the way you build, and what you build with? Add in geopolitics and globalization, which will determine whom you buy from and whom you compete with. Throw in a dash of protectionism, stir deeply with technology, add a healthy portion of changing demographics and psychographics among home buyers, spice with financial market swings and - violà! You have a new world and a new industry. Futurist and strategic planner Richard Worzel assesses the changes coming your way, and offers you the insights you'll need to profit from the turmoil ahead.
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