This podcast interviews Tom Koulopoulos, Founding Chairman of Delphi Group, Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, past Director of the Dell Innovation Lab and contributor to Inc Magazine as well as many other journals. We overview his latest book (#14) “GIGATRENDS” offering insights to the major trends creating opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses globally.

The 6 gigatrends act as lighthouse beacons for those sailing the seas of change.  They explain how demographics, artificial intelligence, health care collapses and changes in our identities and how we work will be shaping the next decade and beyond.  Tom sees these trends as uniting people rather than dividing them, and uplifting the more than 4.7B people currently living below the poverty line – in short the ocean of opportunity.

Thinking Points:

- Are you thinking about how gigatrends that cut across the globe will impact your local market?
- Are you ready to move beyond your historical markets to serve the vast underserved markets around the world?
- Are you being foresightful about how demographic shifts will create a declining China (and its history as a supplier to the world) while an emerging Africa will be far more dominant?
- Are you prepared for the health care collapse that will likely emerge if we don’t change health care administration as an aging population needs far greater services?

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