Most important Business Trends For 2021

In this article, I want to talk about the top 10 business trends for 20 21.

As a futurist, I help companies understand the latest trends, the latest technologies, and prepare their business for them. In this article, I want to share with you the top 10 trends that I believe will drive business. And every company around the world needs to be prepared for these 10 trends. Work from home, but this time for real. Many companies have caused the coronavirus epidemic to force people to work from home. And many companies are now remodeling their entire business model. You reconsider Do we still need offices? But when we are really honest with ourselves, companies become more productive. But the way people work from home is not necessary for everyone.

There are some people who have wonderful and comfortable offices in their homes who have all the equipment. You are very good at it. There are many people who work at the kitchen table and do not have comfortable chairs. 

Now really companies need to redefine their own workspaces and offices and really support those who work from home. So they need to give them the right office equipment, computers, comfortable chairs, facilities and mental health support, and everything that goes with it so that everyone can work from the rest of their home in the future. Data as assets. The amount of data has grown massively in recent years. We are now seeing that companies that are using this data to better understand their customers and improve their decision-making are clearly the ones that make everyone else better, especially when this cloud When it comes to solutions. Now we can access data from anywhere.

Artificial intelligence also enables us to automate the part of data analysis. But companies are required to do so that they should in fact be considered as an asset. You need to ensure that the data is protected and secure so that it is not stolen or interrupted. The second thing we need to do is ensure that everyone in the company has access to the data and is able to convert that data into insights. And we have to improve not only the system but also the data literacy in the organization. And this is a big stumbling block for many companies, where they have large amounts of data, but don't have the tools, but don't the skills people really need to think about is my important business question? 

How can I use this data to answer this business question? And this is something that we have to promote in 2021. Business Model Innovation. Now what we need to do is really think about what we are giving to our customers and how we work as a company. We saw many industries completely changed in 2020.

We are going to see this in the hospitality industry in the event industry and the companies that we're continuously moving forward with were able to respond very fast. If you are a restaurant and on the first day of lockdown, then you have actually covered your restaurant and make sure you have takeaway skills.

Their companies, like Formula 1 companies that manufactured ventilators at the time, were always concerned about how the market changed and how we changed our own business model. And innovating your own business model is, in my opinion, twenty-one, twenty-one years from now, more important than ever. Another huge trend for 2021 is automation. 

Companies looked at their own business processes and said, we can get people out of the process where they are not really adding value? 

We have seen this in warehouses and supply chains. Now we have automated vehicles. We have trucks and ships that run and sail autonomously. 

And we see this in many business areas, where we now have a chessboard that can replace call centers or at least large parts of them. And what we will see more and more in 2021 is white-collar automation.

But we think that if we look at the work of a lawyer or doctor, for example, what parts can we actually automate? In what parts can we give artificial intelligence and intelligent robots? And it will continue. And we can already see. I work with many different organizations in the way education is imparted. Health care is used in many countries