Inside this Issue: "Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2007"

Subject: Jan-Mar 2007 eZine: "Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2007"

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Predictions from "Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2007"

• "Global warming will be recognized as a serious issue by all political factions and alternative fuel sources will become more acceptable including nuclear power generation...."
  Andrew 'Flip' Filipowski, Owner, Chairman & CEO, SilkRoad equity, Inc.
  
• "Businesses will become interactive with customers to create new versions of products and services of all kinds, from food to toys to manufactured business supplies."
  Brock Hinzmann, Technology Navigator, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
  
• "The Internet will continue to grab mindshare and leisure time from the US population, as people transform their use of the Internet from 'search and retrieve' to 'receive and interact.' "
  Buddy Arnheim, Partner/Member of Firm's Executive Committee, Perkins Coie LLP
  
• "Entrepreneurism and innovation are driving the collective consciousness of Japan to strive with great intensity toward another economic transformation every bit as big as the one Demming helped catalyze in the 1950's."
  Kimberly Wiefling, Founder and President, Wiefling Consulting
• "Google will continue to defeat everyone in monetizing search and expanding its franchises...The stock will move past $750 a share on its way to $1000."
  Jeffrey S. Young, Author, Rose Springs

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Book: Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2007: Getting a Handle on the Year Ahead Wouldn't it be great to have a good handle on what will happen this year to make sure you could plan around it? This book provides a series of answers. For 2007, we have contributions from 50 executives with a number of interesting predictions.

Here are the top 10 trends for 2007

#01 - Global Warming/Environmental Concerns Effect Business

#02 - Energy Continues to Take Center Stage

#03 - The Internet Continues to Grab Mindshare by Getting Incorporated into Daily Processes

#04 - The World Continues Going Mobile

#05 - Marketing Starts Moving from an "Art" to a "Science"

#06 - The US Dollar Becomes Less Important

#07 - Capitalism Continues to Spread Throughout the World

#08 - Rapid Adoption of Mass Customization

#09 - Software Continues to Morph

#10 - Online Networking Becomes a Key Business Asset

Industries/Trends to Watch

Fun Predictions We Couldn't Resist Including

The book contains the trends since 1998. For 2007, we include predictions from over 50 experts like the predictions above. This is a great read and will help you understand what's coming this year and next.

About the Author
	Mitchell Levy is Director of the innovative Silicon Valley Executive Business Program and the Chairman and partner of CEOnetworking. Mr. Levy is also President and CEO of ECnow.com, a Management Consulting firm helping company's grow with strategic consulting and targeted business education, author of the books E-Volve-or-Die.com, Happy About Outsourcing, and Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2005, 2006 and 2007, creator of the Value Framework®, and on the board of directors of Rainmaker Systems (NASDAQ: RMKR). He is the former Chair of comdex.biz at Comdex Fall and was at Sun Microsystems for 9 years, during the last four of which he managed the e-commerce component of Sun's $3.5 billion supply chain. He is a popular speaker, lecturing on business and management issues throughout the U.S. and around the world.
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