Guatemalan businessmen say that the boom in vertical housing is changing the demand for storage services in mini warehouses, which are increasingly sought out by families.
Regarding new trends, the CEO of Mr. Bodeguitas, Federico Rolz, explained to Elperiodico.com.gt that "...The Generation 3 project, located in Las Charcas, zone 11 of the city, is characterized by having buildings with independent alarms, corridors designed for residential users which becomes an extension of the office and the house."
Intelligent supply chains which are able to learn what they do, and personalized services are part of the 26 trends that DHL predicts for the near future.
From the press release by DHL:
Potentially new game-changing trends revealed in DHL’s 2016
Logistics Trend Radar
Self-learning or ‘machine-learning’ systems – one of 26 exciting key developments highlighted in DHL's 2016 Logistics Trend Radar
A company can make no mistakes at all, but if its strategy and way of thinking are not able to adapt quickly to changes in the environment, it will inevitably disappear.
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Nokia's CEO said: "We didnt do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost"
Nokia was the shrimp that was ahead of the pack... but it has become the best example of the old latin adage "a shrimp that falls asleep, gets carried away by the current." The failure of the technology giant was not due to technical mistakes made by company leaders, but the inability and perhaps unwillingness to change and understand that the environment they had to compete in had changed.
Since August the quetzal has been appreciating against the dollar, mainly due to an increase of foreign exchange coming into the country in the form of remittances.
Although in the first eight months of the year the exchange rate against the dollar was stable, from August the trend began to change and the national currency began to appreciate.
The president of the Bank of Guatemala (Banguat), Julio Suarez S21.com.gt told that "...
The World Trade Report 2013 focuses on trade as cause and effect of the change, and examines the factors shaping the future of global trade.
The world is changing extremely rapidly under the influence of many factors, among which are changing patterns in production and consumption, constant technological innovation, new forms of trade and obviously political policy.
A new generation of travelers are choosing where to stay not by the number of stars a hotel has, but by looking for the style of hotel that fits their own lifestyle.
An example of adaptation to these concepts is Hotels & Resorts, the largest operator of luxury hotels, which has transformed itself by following three steps:
1 - Stop being hotel owners so that the main focus can be the customers, for this reason 110 establishments were sold in the last decade at a value of $7,500 million, in order to focus on management, differentiated service and customer loyalty.
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." John F. Kennedy.
For the study "Delivering Tomorrow - Customer Needs in 2020 and Beyond", Deutsche Post DHL has brought together experts from around the world to provide opinions and analyses on future trends in the global economy.
Like other patterns of consumption, tourism is changing as a result of the crisis toward closer destinations and for shorter time periods.
Operator estimates of what they will rake in during Easter Week, an annual peak in the tourism industry’s calendar, have already taken these trends into account and adjusted the supply; intraregional tourism benefits from this.