Harvard Business Review has just published its top breakthrough business ideas for 2008 (Registration required).
The list of 22 trends ranges wide, from a public transit agency that uses crowd sourcing to improve service, to hackers who increasingly are outsourcing their nefarious deeds to service providers. Want a real chill? Read the possibilities for businesses to exploit the emerging science of MRI-based lie detectors.
Here are a few that caught my eye:
- The peer-to-peer economy will produce new income possibilities for individuals.
- We will pay workers for the value they create, not the hours they put in.
- Today’s physical work environment needs a dramatic rebuild.
- The attributes of online gamers are the very same workforce characteristics you should be looking for when hiring.
- The great untapped market in China is second-tier cities, nearly 53% of China’s urban population and 64% of its GDP reside in them.
- Islamic finance is booming; half of all savings held by Muslims will be sharia-compliant within a decade, according to one estimate.
- The future of “experts” is clouded by the rise of “wisdom of the crowd.”
Read the complete list and give your thoughts. Islamic finance? Gamer culture? What do you see through your periscope?
(Bright idea image by ryanrocketship, CC 2.0)
