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Barclay's 150 Trends for Investors to Watch

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  But we still think it's a useful and excellent trend analysis piece and if you're interested in trends this report is well worth reviewing.  It's also likely their 150 trends would be somewhat different if they pulled them together today. 

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Book Review: Raw Deal - How the Uber Economy is Screwing American Workers

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Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently did an analysis of contingent work and found 85% of independent contractors are content being independent and would not want to be traditional employees. The majority like being independent and prefer being independent over having a traditional job. For example, the U.S.

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Do Uber Drivers Only Make $3.37 Per Hour? (The Quick Answer is No)

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The only problem was their analysis was flawed, something they conceded this week.  After reviewing Uber's rebuttal, the MIT researchers re-ran their numbers and are now saying ridesharing drivers median income is between $8.55 per hour was widely covered in the press. See the Uber post for the details. per hour and $10.00

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Coworking and the Blending of Work and Life

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  The Harvard Business Review article Work-Life Balance Isn't the Point covers this shift. But it's clear from our preliminary analysis of the results that work/life blending is common among coworking members. Replacing it is a new normal where work, home and life are much more seamlessly blended.

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Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies

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One of my favorite technology trend analysis and forecasting efforts is Gartner's annual Hype Cycle report.     The Gartner chart below summarizes the analysis for 2010.      As you review this chart please keep in mind that Gartner mostly takes an enterprise viewpoint on technology. 

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Insight, Innovation and Finding Aha's

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The Harvard Business Review article Where to Find Insight provides a good primer on how to spot trends and create business insight that can drive innovation. But we consider two to be of the greatest importance to us in our trend spotting and analysis work.   We use all 7 of the insight sources listed above to do this.

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What is Computational Anthropology?

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MIT Technology Review's The Emerging Science of Computational Anthropology  covers how digital data is creating new opportunities to study human behavior. It's also leading to more timely and accurate analysis and deeper bahavior insights.   Disclosure: Intuit is an Emergent Research client. Big Data trends'

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