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MiniTrends Presentations

Inspire and educate your employees and/or clients to spot important emerging trends and take advantage of them for profit, purpose, and fun. Our presentations offer a great introduction to the MiniTrends Mindset and give your audience the tools to stay current and profitable in your line of business.

MiniTrends Workshops

Our half-day to two-day workshops provide an overview of the MiniTrends Concept, hands-on discussion and exercises, and speakers tailored to provide your employees and/or clients with a creative MiniTrends Mindset to help your company stay profitable and on the cutting-edge in your industry and related Industries.

Sample Presentations & Workshops

MINITRENDS: How to Discover & Profit From Business & Technology Trends

Dr. Vanston Speaks About MiniTrends

Here we introduce the MiniTrend Concept to help you, your employees, and/or clients stay on the cutting-edge and be profitable in your new ventures and/or established businesses.  This concept provides a new approach for finding and taking advantage of emerging trends that will become significant in 2-5 years, but are not yet widely recognized or appreciated.

  • Individual entrepreneurs will learn how to identify, assess, and exploit new business opportunities.
  • Decision makers in small and mid-size businesses will learn how to gain advantage by recognizing and utilizing emerging trends.
  • Innovative thinkers in large businesses will learn how to distinguish themselves by their special perceptiveness.
  • Investors will learn how to uncover attractive new investment opportunities.
  • Job-seekers will find new avenues for their skills.
The presentation is based on TFI’s 35  years of experience in identifying and applying technical, social, and business trends and the book MINITRENDS: How Innovators & Entrepreneurs Discover & Profit From Business & Technology Trends authored by  Dr. John Vasnton with his daughter Carrie Vanston.
This presentation can be expanded to a half-day to two-day MiniTrends Workshop customized to your organization’s needs. We include an overview of the MiniTrends Concept, hands-on discussion and exercises, and speakers tailored to provide your employees and/or clients with a strategies to stay on top of trends and take advantage of the resulting profits. 
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MINITRENDS: Initiating a Minitrend Exploitation Program

There is much discussion in the business world today of Megatrends, i.e, very large-sale trends define the nature of our society. However, recognizing these Megatrends provides little guidance to businesses about specific strategies. MiniTrends — trends that promise to be of significant importance within two to five years, but are not generally recognized or appreciated by the public or most businesses — on the other hand, are of a scope and importance to provide profitable business opportunities.

Attendees Work on Impact Wheel Excercise

Although most businesses try to stay alert to trends that might impact their markets, financial status, and operations, few have specific programs to identify, assess, and exploit such trends. Given the complexity, uncertainty, and rapid change in the New World business environment, including a formal Minitrend Exploitation Program in the strategic planning process provides companies with important competitive advantages.

In this presentation, we demonstrate the basic principles involved in initiating and conducting a Minitrend Exploitation Program.

This presentation can be expanded to a half-day to two-day MiniTrends Workshop customized to your organization’s needs. Workshops include an explanation of the MiniTrends Concept and the development of a foundation for a strong MiniTrends Exploitation Program. Workshops include hands-on discussion and exercises. 

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The MiniTrends material can be tailored to the individual audience. For more information and to book presentations, seminars, and workshops, please fill out the contact form or contact us at (512) 258-8898 or info@tfi.com.

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