Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 31, 2011
Last summer we did a lot of interviews (over 60) with members of U.S. coworking facilities. One message we consistently heard was coworkers felt they were more productive at a coworking facility than they were working from home or from coffee shops. We heard this so consistently, we included several folks explaining why in our Voices of Coworking video.
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 27, 2011
The Voices of Coworking is a video where members of coworking facilities discuss why they cowork, the benefits of coworking and where they see this new style of work going in the future. The video is the the synthesis of over 80 interviews with coworkers conducted by Emergent Research over the last summer. Over 40 of these interviews were filmed, and we believe the 17 people in the film provide a broad and accurate perspective on this new way of working.
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Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 26, 2011
In case you've been living in a cave the last year or so, the use tablet computers (and especially Apple iPads) is surging. According to a recent report by Pew Research , about 11% of adult Americans own a tablet computer. This is stunning growth given that the first iPad was released just 18 months ago. If the report was from anyone but Pew, I would be more that a bit skeptical. But Pew's work is rock solid.
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 25, 2011
The role small businesses play in the U.S. economy is a very popular topic these days. This is primarily due to our politicians saying "small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy" pretty much every time they open their mouths. But as a flurry of recent articles have pointed out, our politicians tend to exaggerate the importance of small business. This is not to say small businesses aren't important - they're really important. They just don't do
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 20, 2011
We get a lot of questions about what information sources we use in our trend analysis work. A couple of months ago we posted on our favorite trends sources. We also follow several of the major consulting firm thought leadership sites. For example, yesterday's post on trends featured infromation from Bain and Company and tuesday's post had info from the Boston Consulting Group. The consulting firm sites are interesting because they do sophisticated
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 19, 2011
The Great Eight: Billion Dollar Growth Trends to 2020 is a fascinating look at macro trends from the elite consulting firm Bain and Company. Bain's primary business is strategy consulting at the highest levels of world's largest corporations. Because of this, they look at trends from a "where's the money" point of view and each of the their Great Eight trends is expected to generate at least $1 trillion (yes, trillion ) in global GDP over the ne
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 18, 2011
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is forecasting a major uptick in U.S. manufacturing. Key quote from their most recent study: "Over the next five years, a U.S. manufacturing renaissance in home appliances, car parts, and other sectors could accelerate—boosting output by $100 billion and adding 2 million to 3 million jobs." There are currently about 11.7 million manufacturing jobs in the U.S. - down from over 16 million in the late 1990s. To paraphrase our Vice President, a
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