Latest Business Forecasts
What is changing?
business
- If the United States were to consider imposing sanctions on China, the world's second-largest economy, many companies could choose to do business in the latter if forced to choose.
- Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) will be a business of over $6bn by 2027.
- Persistent flooding and associates losses could cause Chennai to lose its reputation as one of Asia's best places to live and do business.
- Advancing the field of learning will help every business compete in an increasingly global economy with a tight market for skills.
- By 2020, 50% of the Forbes Global 2000 (the world's largest public companies) will see the majority of their business depend on their ability to create digitally-enhanced products, services, and experiences.
- Amazon's advertising business has loomed quietly in the digital media space for some time but the online behemoth has given the clearest indication that it will now come to the fore.
- Amazon's ad business will increase by an average annual rate of 37% between 2016 and 2018.
- US president Donald Trump's intimidation of American business to near-shore production will likely invite retaliatory measures from other countries.
- Microsoft will have between 25% and 30% of its revenue and operating income from cloud services business.
- In Asia Pacific, connecting thousands of things to existing business networks will open-up new security challenges.
- Tougher sanctions could include an oil embargo, banning North Korea's airline, intercepting cargo ships and punishing Chinese banks and other foreign doing business with Pyongyang.
- The looming threat of Amazon's encroachment is another potential headwind for the grocery business.
- Some researchers are forecasting that the live streaming business will be worth $70bn globally by 2021.
- Small businesses in the US are expected to grow an average of 6% annually through 2020.
- Adoption of marketing automation in small businesses is expected to grow by 143% by 2017.
- By 2018, small businesses expect to see triple-digit-growth in mobile apps.
- Competitive threat is overwhelmingly seen to be coming from incumbent banks (80%) rather than challengers such as Atom and Monzo or technology businesses such as Amazon or Facebook applying for banking licenses (33%).
- A positive outcome to Brexit negotiations could potentially see a £ 100mln a year improvement to the cost of trade for the UK's offshore oil business.
- The dreams of Tesla becoming a player in the RoboTaxi business will likely remain as dreams.
- Warren Buffett sees the self-driving technology as a threat to auto-insurance business.
- Insights-driven businesses will steal $1.2 trillion per annum from their less informed peers.
research
- The market for business to business market research in the US was resilient in 2016 and will continue to be strong in 2017.
- The UK will continue to be a global leader on transport research in low and middle income countries.
market
- According to Forrester the market for low-code tools will grow from a few billion in 2016 to $15 billion by 2020.
- The UK is a market with more risk for outage and less margin between peak demand and capacity from the grid.
- Advanced robotic technologies are expected to alter the market to the tune of$ 1.7-4.5 trillion by 2025.
- US drone demand is still driven by hobbyists flying small models of unmanned aircraft systems - the government term for flying drones-with the market predicted to grow from about 1.1 million vehicles in 2016 to more than 3.5 million units by 2021.
- The global cognitive systems spending market will reach US$21.46 Bn by 2026.
- The global cement additives market is expected to grow at a moderate growth rate in terms of revenue during the forecast period.
- The global automotive infotainment market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.4 percent between 2016 and 2021.
- Enterprise networking is the biggest segment within the Indian IT infrastructure market with revenue expected to reach $1.1 Billion in 2017.
- Advancing the field of learning will help every business compete in an increasingly global economy with a tight market for skills.
- Southeast Asia currently accounts for about 9% of APAC's online leisure / unmanaged business travel market and is projected to have a combined annual growth rate of 14% between 2015 and 2020.
opportunity
- Decentralisation is a key strategy for Singapore to relieve the pressure off the city centre and to provide jobs and opportunities closer to homes outside the city centre.
- There's much more financial opportunity in beaming space internet down to Earth than launching reusable rockets.
- Huge opportunities lie ahead for insurers in the Middle East to drive business transformation through technology innovation.
- The largest business opportunities in tackling these and further urban challenges have a potential value of more than US$187 billion in 2030.
- The largest market opportunities for AI during the next decade will be in the advertising, finance, healthcare.
- Reorienting the global economy around open trade and sustainable development objectives would unlock an estimated US$12 trillion of market opportunities in a range of sectors.
landscape
- Growing oil revenues and a slowly improving business landscape will not lead Iran to take a more assertive stance in regional and global affairs.
- Integrating several standalone solutions such as PPDS, EWM, and BPC into the SAP S / 4 HANA core will simplify a customer's landscape and result in consequential savings.
business analysis
- Business analysts forecast the Japanese food market for imports is primed for extensive growth over the decades ahead.
business community
- The roll-out of faster speed networks will be highly anticipated in the business community next year.
business smartphones
business user
- By 2018, most business users will have access to self-service tools.
CCE business lobby
- The CCE business lobby projects new revenues from the proposed carbon taxes in Mexico at about 26.6 billion pesos ($2 billion).
us business confidence
- GE CFO warns of risk to US business confidence in 2017.
idea
- The election of a progressive South Korean president with ideas for a fresh approach to address the North Korea threat will fuel tensions with the US under President Donald Trump.
- Space is a $360 billion growth industry and with about 2,000 new satellites expected by 2020 to power a range of new business ideas.
economy
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- Reorienting the global economy around open trade and sustainable development objectives would unlock an estimated US$12 trillion of market opportunities in a range of sectors.
- Advancing the field of learning will help every business compete in an increasingly global economy with a tight market for skills.
- Many retailers, large and small, are taking advantage of the growing pop-up economy, predicted to have grown to $10 billion in sales.
- The U.S. economy could lose up to $41.5 billion each day from a geomagnetic disturbance.
- If the United States were to consider imposing sanctions on China, the world's second-largest economy, many companies could choose to do business in the latter if forced to choose.
innovation
- By 2018, 40% of EA teams will be recognized as leaders by their main focus on disruptive technologies application to drive business innovation.
- The next 100 years will be defined by sustainability innovation.
- Huge opportunities lie ahead for insurers in the Middle East to drive business transformation through technology innovation.
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Implications
Sentiment Analysis
Business sentiment has been mostly neutral for some time, with just one short-lived uptick in April. Fears of future geopolitical and economic crises are cancelled out by the significant opportunities that are presenting themselves through new emerging business models, products and services.
Topic map
The same opportunities and risks are reflected in the topic map below.
Heat map
The most impacted are likely to be North and South America but slowly, over time.
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In 2025, we will still see trade and systems improvement being the key driving forces.
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