Deloitte released its inaugural "Business Trends 2013" report outlining eight trends expected to be crucial strategic drivers for global business. The eight business trends for 2013 are:
|- The Rewired Customer: The flexibility of the human brain ("neuroplasticity") enables and is driving rapid and substantial shifts in consumer behavior and smart companies will find ways to capitalize on these shifts
- The Scale Paradox: The disruptive power of analytics is helping small companies be more insightful and large companies be more agile, upending conventional wisdom.
- Reengineering Business Intelligence: Companies are embedding social data into core strategic decisions and leveraging this data in novel and impactful ways.
- Partnerships for the Future: Recent shifts in economic and social forces are driving government and business to collaborate in unprecedented ways.
- The Responsible Enterprise: Companies are recognizing the advantages that come from embedding environmental, social and governance factors into their core business.
- Manufacturing Beyond China: Several converging trends are causing companies to consider alternative locations to China.
- Emerging Market Talent Strategies: Global talent strategies are evolving as BRIC economies begin to mature.
- Building on the BRICs: Seven new and emerging markets provide companies a fresh opportunity beyond the BRIC countries.
