DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/561b0e/worlds_top_global) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "World's Top Global Mega Trends To 2020 and Implications to Business, Society and Cultures" to their offering.
This research captures the global pertinent forces of the future that impacts business, society, cultures and personal lives. These mega trends are macroeconomic forces of development that will define our future world and its increasing pace of change. It is important to continuously track these Mega Trends to gain a strategic vision and to capitalize on emerging opportunities and to understand needs of the future customer. For the purpose of this study, these mega trends are categorized into urbanization, social, economy, technology, energy, e-mobility, infrastructure, business, health and wellness, smart factory and industry-specific trends.
This Frost & Sullivan research provides information on Mega Trends, which are the global, sustained, and macroeconomic forces of development. These trends affect business, economy, society, cultures and personal lives, thereby defining our future world and its increasing pace of change. Mega Trends have diverse meanings and impacts for different industries, companies and individuals. These pertinent global forces are changing rapidly, bringing new competencies into play at half the lifecycle speed of the past decade. An analysis of Mega Trends and their implications is a vital cog in a company's future strategy, development and innovation process, especially since it influences product and technology planning.
The study forecasts that future urbanization will drive the integration of core city centres or down-towns, with suburbs and daughter cities. These inclusions will expand city limits from the current average of 25 miles (40 km) to around 40 miles (64 km). According to the study, there will be 25 Mega-cities, 15 Mega-regions and at least 8-10 Mega-corridors in 2020. Another interesting projection is the mushrooming of 40 global smart' cities driven by smart initiatives, products and solutions.
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