New Business Ideas: Previous Analysis - Part 2

General Business Trends

Advances in medicine. Cancer, HIV, genetics. Memory. Neuropsychiatry.
Security: Violence, job insecurity, personal insecurity, private data
Entertainment that make the isolation: PC, Internet, TV, bi-directional interactive entertainment and tailor-made, multi-featured cell phones, portable car stereos, DVD, digital cameras, household, etc..

The family as the most important value for young: According to research done in London to young people between 16 and 21 the highest aspiration was related to being happily married with children, up from a successful career.

The organizations of the future: small business units are merged into larger units and will form a federal company. Centralized purchasing, advertising and Mkt and decentralized in others. Condominium or private housing estate. We need more partnerships. For this is not necessary to merge or make acquisitions without must work with other companies. You can unite around a common goal where individual talents are used and power but to resign this must be some independence to the team.

Companies with employees part-time or from home. You can use a model of community and find ways to feel part. Examples of a company that has many self-employed and a good restaurant where the food is free all gather there. This also implies changes in the rules of management and leadership: if you take the model of a community can be thought of in terms of political theory and not engineering thinking in the language of machines. Instead of looking for work, finding clients. Model of a play where the director is not listed but those are the employees.

The major problems

• Insecurity
• Violence
• Discrimination (immigrants, by age, sex, disability, etc.)
• Decreased sexual
• Cultural changes for men and women
• Food problems
• Drugs
• Divorces
• Fears - Phobias
• The new spirituality
• Slavery labor / labor abuse / harassment / stress
• Loneliness-person households. TV: Supermarket for loners
• Sectarianism

We thus have outlined a comprehensive and complex that guides us on possible options for work and business to address. Whether to offer solutions to problems that have to do with the lifestyle, needs and characteristics of certain groups or companies or as alternative ways of outlining a business.

This does not exhaust the universe of subjects but can be used to think of some potential business ideas. Each of them may deserve a study of alternative development. In future notes in this series we will be addressing some of them.