Future consumer .corn
This amazing glimpse into the
near future will set your business on the fast track to success in the Webified world.
"There is plenty to
argue with in this book a plenty to stimulate your thinking about how| Net is changing
commerce and the world" Don Tapscott, best-selling aui of The Digital Economy and
Growing Digital; co-author of Digital Cap,
By 2010, the Internet will
gobble up 31°/| consumer spending, leaving most brick-aj mortar retailers in rubble.
The head-spinning Internet
Revolution, "Webolution" as renowned futurist FrI Feather calls it, will reverse
virtually everyth .the Industrial Revolution put into place, retu ing the workplace, the
learning space and i marketplace to the home.
In the resulting globalized,
high-speed society, we will talk to our appliances and autor biles and they'll
talk back. We'll carry Internet with us wherever we go. Families i incorporate. Paper
money will become a thin the past.
These are just a few of the
changes result from the Webolution. It will rock our woi utterly transforming life and
commerce. And| rewards will accrue fastest to those who embrace it first.
FutureConsumer.com provides you W invaluable knowledge that will put you and yd business
ahead of the competition, such as:
- the
one Web strategy .that every organaad absolutely must pursue
- why
some Web sites succeed and why others fail
- solid
forecasts of online retail sales to 2010 six years further out than any published
elsewhere in 12 product categories
- what
will be the top 50 retail Web sites in 2010
- astute
analyses of trends in work, business, family life, and society
Frank Feather is a global
business futurist and author who, in 1979, coined the now well-known phrase "Thinking
Globally, Acting Locally." Formerly a strategic planning executive with three of the
world's largest banks, he has forecast the future with uncanny accuracy since 1981. In
demand on the lecture circuit, he has advised an A-Z of global companies in all
industries. Even the big consulting firms frequently pick his brain.
"You say you want a
webolution? Read this book." DON TAPSCOTT, best-selling author of The
Digital Economy and Growing Up Digital; co-author of Digital Capital.
"Excellent bedtime reading - except it prevents you from sleeping!" YRJO
NEUVO, Executive Vice-President & Chief Technical Officer, Nokia Mobile Phones
"A pleasure to read, providing new insights into the future impact of the
Internet on our personal and professional lives." JANICE M. SCITES,
Vice-President, Internet Implementation Strategy, AT&T Corp.
"Frank Feather knows how to get under the skin of every consumer company with the
message: change or suffer."
KEVIN MANEY, Technology Columnist, USA Today
"A 'must read' for any executive who expects to be employed in 2010."
JOHN BRANDT, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Industry Week and Industry Week.com
316 pages