Imagine the future: everywhere a user goes, she would receive offers specific to her.
The challenge for marketers is to look behind an uncertain present, and imagine the future of their companies and how business is changing.
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When I try to imagine the future, I am optimistic because I see women demanding information and opportunities in the face of social norms that say they're not permitted to do so.
The idea is to imagine the future, specifically as relates to technology and how people use it, create plausible scenarios that might actually come about as technology develops, and then figure out how to make them happen.
The story is entirely different in the expectations game, the market in which buyers and sellers of stocks imagine the future and, on the basis of those expectations, determine the prices of stocks, bonds and other investments.
Merchant and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot announced the winning prototypes from the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition that engaged hundreds of urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of the City's approximately 11, 000 public pay telephones.
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"Left unchecked, power generation and heat would have limited the devices we build today and the ones we could imagine in the future, " says Otellini, who recently ascended to the chief executive post at Intel .
"Left unchecked, power generation and heat would have limited the devices we build today and the ones we could imagine in the future, " says Otellini, who recently ascended to the chief executive post at Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
Imagine in the future, your phone not only receiving a firmware update for its software, but also its circuits, because an electrical engineer figured out a more efficient way let a component perform its task!
Success visioning involves asking a series of future, active, and past tense questions to imagine success in the future as if it has already occurred.
It is hard to imagine that in the future our ICT-centric economy will become more tolerant and less economically impacted by outages.
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"Imagine actors in the future crossing the theatre and perhaps paying homage to Shakespeare as they go on stage for luck, " she added.
Eventually this fades, but for the foreseeable future I imagine nobody will want to to go near the program.
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Some of the volunteers were asked to imagine eating the potato chips in the future and to predict how much they would like them.
Still, it's not too hard to imagine a future where the majority of autos run on electrons -- whether they're pushed from batteries or hydrogen fuel cells.
Imagine the negotiation during some future collective bargaining sessions.
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Maybe it's too soon, too difficult to imagine another reality further in the future.
Still, it's possible to imagine a future in which the financial sector requires less oversight because firms have found a way to hire more prudent employees.
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When I moved to Indonesia, it would have been hard to imagine a future in which the prosperity of families in Chicago and Jakarta would be connected.
Most of all, put yourself in the shoes of your future boss and imagine whom you would rather hire: the candidate who built a profitable business over the course of two years, or the candidate who sat in lectures and reviewed case studies to get a degree?
It is one thing to speculate about the technical possibilities of future phones, but quite another to imagine the social consequences.
In the Imagination Age, we are attempting to create the future we can imagine.
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When his family got legal residency, he though Geovani had a bright future in the U.S. He didn't imagine that future would end in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq.
Without knowing the intricacies of the future problems the Zimbabwe Cricket Union faces, I can only imagine there will be gloomy ramifications.
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Imagine a future where you have engaged the millennials with platforms they are used to rather than hiring them into an isolated and unsupported atmosphere.
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Who could imagine what problems it would cause in the future?
Imagine a business that can explain the better future it wants to create, with plans in place to support employees, with career roadmaps that have ample room for growth.
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