“People (as Prosumers), Digital Value Chains, and Leaders must begin Waking UP!, Transcending History, and Leading From The Future®, if we are to revitalize the possibilities for authentic, inspiring and sustainable Human Well-Being on behalf of Y(Our) Children’s Children.”
As Albert Einstein once said:
“The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them yesterday.”
Here we find the context in which to contemplate the Global Business Policy problems of today—a tidal wave of interrelated global predicaments, risks, and uncertainties, inherited from the 20th Century, that are baffling Prosumers, Digital Value Chains, and Leaders as to how best to create the future in the 21ST Century.
As we begin Waking Up! and start to appreciate the magnitude of interdependent factors impacting the Global Business Policy ecology of thought, words, and actions, we may feel nauseous from an instantaneous apprehension of the totality of the mounting crises that we must attend to in time to avert certain calamity.
Here are the Top 7 Global Business Policy Issues of Interest in 2017:
- Worldwide debt today exceeds $217 trillion with no possibility of every being repaid;
- U.S. GDP averaged only 1.46 percent since 2009 exhibiting the worst record of economic growth since 1949;
- U.S. Labor Participation Rate is at its lowest level since 1977;
- U.S. Productivity Growth, measured in labor output per hour, is at its lowest level in 30 years;
- The ratio of spending today on entitlements to R&D investment in the U.S. is 3:1, a complete flip of the 1:3 ratio in the 1960s (during the Space Race);
- U.S. infrastructure Investment, once the marvel of the world, is one of the lowest in the world with a ranking of 143 out of 153 countries; and
- The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a boon for Digital Supply Chains benefiting significantly from gains in industrial efficiency, innovation and optimization, is forecasted to eliminate 5.1 million jobs over the five-year period (2016 – 2021) through robots, 3D Printing, and Additive Manufacturing.
These interrelated crises have worsened over the past ten years and are projected to accelerate over the next ten as the industrial giants of the 21st century place all their cards on Big Data and the profitable gains realized through automation at the expense of labor force participation and human productivity.
Here at The Great Inflection, on the brink of the Mobile Hyper-Connected Society, in the coming onslaught of the Industrial Internet of Everything, global-minded leaders must address these global problems very quickly, and to do so with an entirely different level of thinking in search of entirely new outcomes.
The prospects and projections for reframing the consumer-focused B2C IoT into the Prosumer-activated M2M IIoT Industrial realm are inspiring! However, we must have equally inspired, prophetic visionary leadership in the public, academic, and private sectors to offer an authentic, inspiring, and sustainable pathway that mitigates inevitable Human Labor misalignment and preserves the needs and intentions of humanity.
Imagine Y(Our) Children’s Children inheriting fewer and fewer entry level jobs and career opportunities for discovering their unique purpose for being in the World.
In this Great Inflection, Consumer Re-activists must rise up as Digital Pro-activists and begin standing for getting What We Want (WWW) from the Evolution of the Internet.
In this Great Inflection, Global-minded leaders must begin to Radically Reframe Reality; to take back the Hand of Human Intention informing the Human-Machine Interface; and to do so with the intention of authentically inspiring and sustaining Prosumer-Activated Smart Communities, Cities, and Developments embracing an Internet of Living Intentions™- IoLI™- for Human Well-Being.