Trend analysis is the most critical part of planningSome trends are hard to spot, because people think they are just a fad. The implications of this trend are severely negative related to demand for their skills, so they ignore it. If you don’t use any other trends in your planning, you should have demographic trends at the core of your assumptions. Demographics affect demand for everything, and planning for changes offers businesses the opportunity to be in the right place, at the right time, to be more successful. Learn more about trend planning at AdamHartung.com, or connect with me on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Source: Forbes January 16, 2017 16:03 UTC