The Top 3 Trends of 2016 - What are the 3 biggest things you should do this year to transform your business? From the "Fast Forward your Business Global Webinar, hosted in May 2016 with Futurist & Entrepreneur, Roger James Hamilton

1. Top 3 Trends of 2016
with Roger James Hamilton
What are the 3 biggest things you should
do this year to transform your business?

2. The Top 3 Trends of 2016, with Roger James Hamilton
A special, live Fast Forward your Business Webinar
Tue 24th May, 9am - 10am, London time
A year before the Global Financial Crisis hit and the iPhone
launched, everything felt like it was business as usual…
Key to surfing the wave in your business:
Have a search-optimized web site
Post on a blog
Collect an email list
Sell digital products

3. The Top 3 Trends of 2016, with Roger James Hamilton
A special, live Fast Forward your Business Webinar
Tue 24th May, 9am - 10am, London time
A year before the next major disruption hits and VR replaces
mobile, everything felt like it was business as usual…
Key to surfing the wave in your business:
Have a search-optimized web site
Post on a blog
Collect an email list
Sell digital products
Have a mobile site and apps
Build an engaged community
Share videos & content on social media
Give away content, sell experiences

4. The Top 3 Trends of 2016, with Roger James Hamilton
A special, live Fast Forward your Business Webinar
Tue 24th May, 9am - 10am, London time
A year before another major disruption hits and as our
real and virtual worlds become seamlessly linked…
Key to surfing the wave in your business:
Have a search-optimized web site
Post on a blog
Collect an email list
Sell digital products
Have a mobile site and apps
Build an engaged community
Share videos & content on social media
Give away content, sell experiences

5. The world’s largest taxi company owns no vehicles
The largest accommodation provider owns no real estate
The most popular media provider creates no content
The most valuable photo company sells no cameras
The fastest growing television network lays no cables
The most valuable retailer has no inventory

6. Gerd Leonhard
“The Digital Transfromation
of Business and Society”
The future speaks a different
language

8. The shocking reality of exponential growth
The inventor of Chess presented the game to
the Emperor of India, who is so impressed he
offers the inventor any reward he wants.
The inventor asks for a single grain of rice on
the 1st square of his chess board, two on the
2nd, four on the 3rd and so on.
The Emperor is amazed at the modesty of
the inventor’s request, and thinking it can’t
be that much rice, he grants the gift.
But he soon becomes enraged when the
court treasurers report that by the 64th
square, he would need to deliver
18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice
- or a heap larger than Mount Everest (and
more than 1,000 times the world’s annual
production of rice).
Unfortunately, the inventor loses his life as
a result. But not before making the point
that exponential growth rapidly leads to
results we can hardly comprehend.

9. “The second half of the chess board”
In a recent interview, Andrew McAfee, who
wrote ‘The Second Machine Age’ said
“Things only get crazy in the second half of
the chessboard.” In his book, he calculated
that Moore’s Law predicted a doubling
computer power every 18 months from
1958 onwards and, "by that calculation, we
entered the second half of the chessboard
with digital progress in about 2006.”
He continues, ”For me that really helps me
to understand why we are seeing
smartphones and self-driving cars, and
automatic translation and powerful artificial
intelligence and this amazing parade of
technologies. I think of them as second half
of the chessboard technologies.”

10. The Top 3 Trends of 2016
with Roger James Hamilton
www.fastforwardyourbusiness.net
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11. The New
Alchemists
WAVE

12. WAVE What happens when the
fall of the industrial age,
the rise of entrepreneurship,
digitization, social media,
online access, 3D printing
and the dramatic dynamics of
exponential growth collide?

13. One Billion Entrepreneurs by 2020

15. Peter Thiel’s
7 Billion Dollar
Questions
1. The Engineering Question
2. The Timing Question
3. The Monopoly Question
4. The People Question
5. The Durability Question
6. The Distribution Question
7. The Secret Question
Can you create breakthrough technology instead of
incremental improvements?
Is now the right time to start your particular business?
Are you starting with a big share of a small market?
Do you have the right people in the right place?
Will your market position be defensible 10 and 20
years into the future?
Do you have a way to not just create but deliver
your product?
Have you identified a unique opportunity
that others don’t see?
Peter Thiel
Biilionaire Co-founder, Paypal & Palantir. 1st outside investor in Facebook
How many does
your business
answer “yes” to?

16. Interfaces
Dashboards
Experimentation
Autonomy
Social
Staff on Demand
Communication
& Crowd
Algorithms
Leveraged Assets
Engagement
I
D
E
A
S
S
C
A
L
E
The 10 ingredients of exponential growth

17. Entrepreneurs Institute

18. WAVE The New Alchemists
TRENDS
Growth of entrepreneurs, The third wave,
Social media, Online everywhere, 3D printing
IMPACT
Different thinking: Our ability to create and collaborate
in real time is transforming at an exponential rate
ACTIONS
Choose a big mission!
Find the latest models to get you there
Economies of speed beat economies of scale

21. Entrepreneur Mentoring

22. Me 3.0
WAVE

23. WAVE What happens when the
Age of Millennials, the
growth of personalization,
cognitive computing, rising
global choice, customer
expectations and the
rapid rise of “The
Third Wave” combine?

24. Humanism 3.0
600BC 2000
1500

25. Personalized
Pathways
“The market of one”
Your company
doesn’t start when it
has a product.
It starts when it has
a customer.

26. A.I.’s 3rd Wave
Phase 1
Calculation
Phase 2
Coding
Phase 3
Cognitive

28. Entrepreneurs seeking education and resources
are faced with a cluttered e-learning industry
giving generic and conflicting advice.
PROBLEM

29. A web and mobile platform which delivers personalized
assessment based learning missions for entrepreneurs.
GeniusU connects entrepreneurs with the right network,
knowledge and opportunities based on their personal
purpose, passions, genius, stage of business growth,
location and other personalized information.
SOLUTION

30. Our assessments algorithm provides us with intelligent
data on each user’s interest, level and social connections.
While most A.I. is backward facing, focused at past
habits, GeniusU’s A.I. is forward facing, based on where
users want to go and the best steps to get there.
UNDERLYING MAGIC
Wealth Level
PassionsTalents
Wealth Profile
Purpose

31. 16 MONTH GROWTH
2015 Members
350K+
2016 Forecast
1.2M+
Countries Languages
190 70

33. WAVE Me 3.0
TRENDS
Cognitive computing, Customer choice, Personalization,
Rise of Millennials, Instant gratification, Humanism 3.0
IMPACT
Different focus: Customers can easily find the
No.1 solution to their challenges and desires
ACTIONS
Start with your customer, not your product
Plan for personalized paths for your customers
Design your business to serve a customer of one

39. “Humanity is taking its final exam.
We have come to an extraordinary moment
when it doesn’t have to be you or me anymore.
There is enough for all.”
~ Buckminster Fuller

40. WAVE
Learning
networks

41. What happens when
the dropping cost of
technology, green energy,
distributed education,
social entrepreneurship
and increased global
awareness combine?
WAVE

42. Social networks vs Learning networks

43. Social networks vs Learning networks

44. Social networks vs Learning networks

45. Social networks vs Learning networks

46. Social networks vs Learning networks
A learning networks will disrupt and reorganise learning institutions in
the same way social networks have disrupted and reorganised social
institutions.
While social networks have led to exponential growth in how we
receive and share information as a group, learning networks will lead
to exponential growth in our development as a group.
Learning networks are not just networks for learning, but networks
that learn. By rapidly sharing what works now, everyone in the
network learns exponentially.

47. Social networks vs Learning networks
Youtube and X Games has allowed the tricks and feats in extreme
sports to grow exponentially as athletes learn new discoveries from
each other.
Indiegogo and Kickstarter has allowed start-ups to ramp up the
funding they can raise exponentially by sharing and learning best
practices from the best.
GeniusU will allow entrepreneurs to learn the best ways to access
resources and grow their businesses by sharing and learning the
latest successful strategies from each other.

48. Entrepreneur Apprentice Program

50. WAVE Learning Networks
TRENDS
Dropping costs, distributed education, social
entrepreneurship and increased global awareness
IMPACT
Different action: We are all moving from social
networks to learning networks: Exponential learning
ACTIONS
Join a purpose-driven, learning-focused community
Share your best solutions and learning with others
Plan your success based on what you learn today

51. In the next decade, purpose driven learning
networks will enable us to share and
accelerate our learning to solve the world’s
greatest challenges.
They will also replace the learning heirarchy of
the current education system.

52. “We are the ones
we’ve been waiting for.”

53. The Top 3 Trends of 2016, with Roger James Hamilton
A special, live Fast Forward your Business Webinar
Tue 24th May, 9am - 10am, London time
A year before the Global Financial Crisis hit and the iPhone
launched, everything felt like it was business as usual…
Key to surfing the wave in your business:
Have a search-optimized web site
Post on a blog
Collect an email list
Sell digital products

54. The Top 3 Trends of 2016, with Roger James Hamilton
A special, live Fast Forward your Business Webinar
Tue 24th May, 9am - 10am, London time
A year before the next major disruption hits and VR replaces
mobile, everything felt like it was business as usual…
Key to surfing the wave in your business:
Have a search-optimized web site
Post on a blog
Collect an email list
Sell digital products
Have a mobile site and apps
Build an engaged community
Share videos & content on social media
Give away content, sell experiences

55. The Top 3 Trends of 2016, with Roger James Hamilton
A special, live Fast Forward your Business Webinar
Tue 24th May, 9am - 10am, London time
A year before another major disruption hits and as our
real and virtual worlds become seamlessly linked…
Key to surfing the wave in your business:
Have a search-optimized web site
Post on a blog
Collect an email list
Sell digital products
Have a mobile site and apps
Build an engaged community
Share videos & content on social media
Give away content, sell experiences
Have a fully mobilized movement
Build an active learning network
Share customer stories & insights
Give away everything, charge for connection

56. Fast Forward your Business 2016

59. Thank you for attending!
www.fastforwardyourbusiness.net
Learn all 10 Trends,
and join us virtually or in person on the
Fast Forward your Business World Tour