Scenario prompts 19 May 2023; enjoy the weekend

If you want to become more anticipatory, buy yourself the time to respond, develop your change muscle, and increase the quality of your strategy development, here are the scenario prompts for 19 May 2023. Scenario prompts are the first step of strategy development. If you want to improve your own strategic planning abilities, we have developed a simple four-step programme. Go here https://www.ronimmink.com/perception-pioneer/

Africa, solar reactors, Helsinki, soil, innovation, circular design, data theft, drone delivery, smart textiles, logistics, autonomous construction robots and self-assembling nanoparticles.

Have a great weekend.

The Global Economy’s Future Depends on Africa

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/africa/global-economys-future-depends-africa

The most recent UN estimates project that Africa’s population, driven by both falling mortality and high fertility, will grow from 1.4 billion today to 2.5 billion by 2050

Concentrated solar reactor generates unprecedented amounts of hydrogen

https://physicsworld.com/a/concentrated-solar-reactor-generates-unprecedented-amounts-of-hydrogen/

A new solar-radiation-concentrating device produces “green” hydrogen at a rate of more than 2 kilowatts while maintaining efficiencies above 20%

Helsinki Paves the Way as a Forerunner of Circular Business when World Circular Economy Forum Returns Home

https://rew-online.com/helsinki-paves-the-way-as-a-forerunner-of-circular-business-when-world-circular-economy-forum-returns-home/

Helsinki wants to be a platform for new circular economy innovations and business.

More than 25% of biodiversity is under our feet — but we’re destroying it. A biotech startup that’s raised $56 million has a plan to help save our soil.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trace-genomics-uses-dna-sequencing-to-stop-soil-erosion-2023-5?

Soil is a hotspot.

Artificial intelligence innovation: Leading companies in predictive maintenance systems for the automotive industry

https://www.just-auto.com/data-insights/innovators-ai-predictive-maintenance-systems-automotive/

Check the analysis. Emerging, accelerating, maturing as the frames.

What design can do reveals the 13 winners of the make it circular challenge

https://www.designboom.com/design/what-design-can-do-13-winners-make-it-circular-challenge-05-18-2023/

Circular design is the future.

See your identity pieced together from stolen data

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-18/data-breaches-your-identity-interactive/102175688?

This should scare you.

Amazon’s 100 drone deliveries puts Prime Air far behind Alphabet’s Wing and Walmart partner Zipline

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/18/amazons-100-drone-deliveries-puts-prime-air-behind-google-and-walmart.html

An interesting perspective.

A technique to spin soft functional fibers for smart textiles and wearable devices

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-technique-soft-functional-fibers-smart.html?

A new method to create soft textiles with electronic properties. was inspired by the process through which spiders spin the silk threads used to create their webs.

Start-up funding in logistics: Adjusting to a new reality

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/travel-logistics-and-infrastructure/our-insights/start-up-funding-in-logistics-adjusting-to-a-new-reality?

Funding for logistics start-ups slowed substantially in 2022. Sustainable logistics was a 2022 bright spot

Massive autonomous robot is 3 to 5 times faster than a human construction crew

https://bigthink.com/the-future/massive-autonomous-robot-faster-human-construction-crew/?

To meet the demands of the future, automation is gonna be key in the construction world.

Harnessing Light and Self-Assembling Nanoparticles for Battling Cancer

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2023/5/12/harnessing-light-and-self-assembling-nanoparticles-for-battling-cancer?

Self-assembling nano particles……

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