TRENDS, NETWORKS,

AND CRITICAL
THINKING IN THE 21 ST

CENTURY
•What is a 21st century?

•What are the diff. terms you can

associate in the 21 century?
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NAME IT?
TREND
• Is a behavior or new way of doing things and it has
a big impact on our society. It is a sequential pattern
of change in a condition, output, or process, or an
average or general tendency of a series of data
points to move in a certain direction overtime.
 TRENDS USUALLY…
•Long-lived
•Altered classics
•Not consistent in manner
•Accepted by the wide range of
audience
 TREND SPOTTER
•Is a person who notices and reports on
new fashions, ideas, or activities that are
becoming popular.
 TREND SPOTTING
•Is the identification of new trends
or attempting see the future
 TREND ANALYSIS
•Is the widespread practice of
collecting information and attempting
to spot a pattern, or trend in the
information.
NAME IT????
FAD
•Is a short-term event, that some may
called as a flash in the pan
 FADS USUALLY…
• Short-lived
• Don not have much value
• Flash in the pan
• Affects only particular group of people
 IMPORTANCE OF
TRENDS AND FADS
• Trends and fads are opportunity to do something new
not just from individual standpoint but also macro
level
• Trends and fads can improve business sector by
helping them identify areas to improve within their
organization
• Trends and fads are used to predict future
ELEMENT OF
A TRENDS
CHARACTERISTIC
S OF TRENDS
• Microtrends
• Macrotrends
• Megatrends
• Gigatrends
MICROTRENDS
MACROTRENDS
MEGATRENDS
GIGATRENDS
ASSESSMENT:
D
C
B
A
A
TOPICS:
• Understanding Local Networks matt and rashaun Tues feb 28
• Strategic analysis
• Intuitive thinking
• Global Networks Friday march 3 Chelsea nichole
• Labor
• Migration
• Planetary Networks: Climate Change March 20-21 Mon tues.
alyssa ces andeng
• The effects of consumption and production patterns to climate change
• The effects of climate change
• Steps to address the problems of climate change