EY Megatrends

Understanding megatrends will help you see opportunities where others don’t.

Megatrends 2020 and beyond

3rd edition

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Featured Thinking

Are you reframing your future or is the future reframing you?

Gautam Jaggi 19 Jun 2020
Reframe your future lighthouse

As society shifts in completely new ways, opportunities will emerge to reframe the future. To identify the correct path, organizations must challenge currently held assumptions about customer and workforce strategies, where competition will come from, and where growth will be made.

The EY Megatrends framework exposes business leaders to trends and forces far outside their usual scope of analysis, reducing the risk of missing out on, or being sidelined by, the “next big thing.” Building your transformation journey on future, not current state, has never been more crucial.

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    The Team

    Gil Forer

    Digital and Business Disruption leader | Global Markets
    Leads digital go-to-market strategy. Focused on the impact of disruption and what’s after what’s next. Founder and producer of Innovation Realized.
    New York, USA

    Liz Fealy

    EY Global People Advisory Services Tax Deputy Leader
    Passionate about solving clients’ organization and people issues through innovative Future of Work Solutions and leveraging EY’s proprietary digital accelerators. Employment and labor attorney.
    New York, USA

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    Marcie Merriman

    EY Americas Cultural Insights & Customer Strategy Leader
    Student of human behavior, lover of transformative design. Living at the intersection of culture, commerce and technology to build human-centered experiences. Catalyst. Entrepreneur. Mom.
    Columbus, USA

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    Megatrends 2016

    EY’s first exploration of the primary causes of disruption and the large, transformative trends that are shaping our future.

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    Megatrends 2018

    As more organizations place disruption high on their agenda, our understanding of the forces of disruption and the resulting trends continues to evolve.

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