Trend Updates

Amazon's extended product portfolio exemplifies theses of the GDI study "The End of Consumption". Smart gadgets like the newly announced "Echo Frames" combine the physical, digital and mental worlds.

To feed ten billion people theoretically wouldn't be a problem. In practice, the situation is different. For example, food is lost along the entire supply chain. In a graph, GDI researchers summarise important reasons and drivers.

Global migration, climate change, technological upheaval - these developments are unsettling major challenges for politics and business today. In an interview with the GDI, one of the world's most influential economists, Ernst Fehr, explains what it takes to win people's trust in these times.

In the digital economy, people are only as valuable as their data, according to media theorist and bestselling author Douglas Rushkoff. On the 16th European Trend Day of the GDI, he will talk about his commitment to preserving the human dimension.

The world is changing. In search for security, we increasingly fall into simple tribalisme, a “them against us” thinking. What does this mean for the restaurant industry, where hospitality and open-mindedness are fundamental? How can you stay successful? We explored these  elements at  the GDI's European Food Service Summit.

People need community to survive. In an increasingly networked world, we should be doing better and better–our social well-being should be great. However, this is actually not true, write GDI researchers in a study and explain why.

Tom Szaky (CEO, TerraCycle) on helping to solve the waste problem at the root cause, zero-waste packaging, and his new project called "Loop".

At the 69th International Retail Summit, Jeongwen Chiang, Professor of Marketing at CEIBS, gave an interview on the development of the Chinese market and the main differences between European and Chinese retailing.

Today our longing for authenticity and natural products determines our diet. But we must look at the global food system as a whole - and cannot escape a sweeping process of technisation.

Sarah-Diane Eck (CEO, Sandblock) spoke at the GDI’s 69th International Retail Summit on relationship marketing, loyalty programmes and blockchain technology.