Nobody knows what the future will look like. It’s tempting to focus on one single trend then extrapolate and jump to the wrong conclusion. Hay Group and Z_punkt, leaders in the science of foresight analysis, produced some ground-breaking insights on the six megatrends that will help leaders to address these seismic changes on the horizon by 2030. 1. Globalization 2.0 Globalization 2.0 is fundamentally different from version 1.0. Asia will no longer be the sweatshop of the West. Asian economies will reply less and less on West for goods and traditional trade patterns will be disrupted. Beware of “glocalization.” A new global middle ...