Chapter 8

Conclusion: Gazing into Our Crystal Ball

What Does the Future Hold for Strategic Training?

The decade from 2002 to 2012 witnessed some spectacular changes that few people could have predicted. The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) racked up 67 businesses in the 2010 classification of the world’s top corporations, compared to just four decade earlier. The iPod, iTunes, and the iPhone created enormous new markets, promoting Apple to the world’s most admired company. And Web 2.0, a completely unknown concept 10 years before, won over billions of users. Facebook, Twitter, and other social-networking sites became household names, seemingly overnight.

Lacking a crystal ball and supernatural powers, we would do well to exercise caution ...

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