FutureCreators

Learn about how Disney is trying to integrate into Netflix's territory by creating Disney+. However, they may struggle to do this because the revenue they are getting from TV providers may not come in as fast as they need it to.

Digging deeper into the issue of Boeing's astonishing increase in days and sales in inventory involves understanding how the problem emerged. This podcast explains the systematic involvement as well as who would be included in fixing the issue of inventory.

Like all the FAANGs, and every major company in the future, Netflix mist scale at The Rate of Cloud Inflation or fall off The Information Cost-Velocity Curve, the dominant force in civilization, and die. But, the global common carriers who, today, are the arteries of Netflix Cloud-born information to its customers, can’t do this. Some of the issues with these common carriers come from the idea tha...

Is your business model built to survive Cloud Inflation? Take the 2-Minute ICVC Diagnostic at future-creators.com The hosts break down: Geopolitics and Technological Independence: How trade sanctions and global decoupling have forced Huawei to heavily innovate internally, developing its own alternative operating systems and advanced chip architectures. The Future of Network Infrastructure: Huawei'...

Carlos Ghosn has been arrested in Japan and will likely spend a year in jail there, awaiting trial. And he will not be allowed access to a lawyer during that time. The problem is simple: Japanese companies don’t like to pay competitive, global incomes to top managers. For the most part this means that they must settle for third-rate performers overseas. And live with the miserable market shares in...

Two more reasons China is facing massive problems, as discussed by Future Creators founder Francis McInerney 1. Excessive reliance on unstable state (Party)-owned companies that exist outside the discipline of markets or the rule of law. 2. Roads and buildings that are crumbling visibly as fast as they are built. Recorded 1/25/2019

  An excellent piece in Bloomberg reports that Xi Jin Ping just told the party that it faces “serious" threats to its "long-standing rule.”   The Center of Everything has massive problems. Here are 2. An economy that entered a deep recession early in 2012 and shows no signs of recovery. A spectacularly overheated real estate market that collapsed precipitately; recovery will take well ov...

Alexander Graham Bell founded AT&T in 1877.  His world is finally about to crash and burn.  US carrier service growth is slowing for the first time since the Great Depression.  But, today we are in a 10-year-long boom! They want to break out with 5G wireless but the costs are eye-watering.  And their property, plant and equipment-to-sales ratios are scary and their D/E ratios even scarier. The...

Learn how windows (not the Microsoft kind) can help you tap into the blockchain and reduce world reliance on carbon.

Learn how smaller mesh networks are the future, and how you can take advantage of the opportunities with blockchain.

The administration thinks import taxes are an “easy win.”  But FutureCreators know that Information Velocity is destiny.  Supply chain management is a subset of this. Slapping import taxes on an IV-driven SCM diminishes your position on the Information Cost-Velocity Curve kills value. Recorded 11/2018

Information Velocity (Days of Sales in Inventory + DoS in AR) tells all about SCM.  Big number?  Poor SCM. Don’t try to compete with this; you’ll get nailed on price and terms. Small number?  The world is yours.  You sell cash to customers and deliver products.  Their CFOs love you forever.  You’re locked in!

Many people think that your brand is the value of your company name.  Not even close.  Brand is managing your customers' experience of your product.  You do this where the three Cloud Membranes intersect.  Your information Surface has to cover that space and inflate with it as the Cloud inflates the number of intersections there.  Can’t keep up?  Welcome to Japan!

Amazon’s Information Velocity was way behind Whole Foods when the merger went down.  Looks like the home of AWS has huge ERP problems.  How does Amazon expect to make this deal accretive?  We put a new video on  www.future-creators.com  to explain.

Toronto may have been a better headquarters choice for Jeff Bezos to make. Listen to why from Future Creators.

Well, it finally happened.  Sears is going under.  Twenty-two years after our data showed that it’s Information Velocity could not support its growth.  In 1996, Sears IV was 14 days slower than Walmart.  Today, it is 33 days behind.  Sales peaked at $53B in 2007 and are now $16B.  Walmart was $380B in 2007 and is now $500B.  Eddie Lampert, Sears’ CEO, did not even read his own data!!  Some investm...

The administration thinks import taxes are an “easy win.”  But FutureCreators know that Information Velocity is destiny.  Supply chain management is a subset of this. Slapping import taxes on an IV-driven SCM diminishes your position on the Information Cost-Velocity Curve kills value.? Recorded by Francis McInerney on August 25 2018

If your Ecosystem Velocity is slower than that of your customer, you lose.  Walmart’s Ecosystem Acceleration over the last  quarter century is now worth some $30 billion to the company.  If you can’t support that, why would WMT do business with you?  To win, your ecosystem must be symmetric with theirs.?

The latest news is that Google wants to make a China-censored search engine so it can get into the 800 million person strong Internet market there.  This is nuts.  Cloud inflation will destroy the Party.  There is no point in getting in the way.  Nor in letting yourself be seen as the Party’s agent when people turn against it.  Apple is guilty too. Recorded 8/20/2018

The real issue is not how Google licenses Android.  This may or may not be a problem for EU antitrust people. The real issue is, why are there no EU Googles, Facebooks, Apples, et al?  What went wrong in the EU?  It was designed in theory to foster these new generations of companies.  Something didn’t work.  FutureCreators know what it is. Recorded 7/21/2018 in New York by Robert Braathe and Franc...

The Great Firewall keeps Chinese companies out of global markets where they need a free and open Internet to compete.  This means limiting the growth of Alibaba et al.  No way for the Party to maintain the Mandate of Heaven.  The solution?  Use AI to extend the Great Firewall into your home and office and bring each and every one of us under Party control.  That way Alibaba can have a free hand. R...

Toyota gets our FutureCreator Management Grade B today.  Not an A, but certainly not an F.  However, if Toyota had to sell cars the way Apple sells computers, the big change that Tesla is forcing, it will have to absorb huge inventories now held by dealers.  And it will have to great an ERP-driven supply chain that looks like Apple’s.  No automaker in the world can do this.  Huge looming crisis.  ...

Don Trump kicked off his Trade War with China today.  The problem is that his policy does not conform to the Information Cost-Velocity Curve that FutureCreators know dominates all business all of the time.  And has since we evolved into humans from primates.   The ICVC says that information costs are falling so fast today that they alone dictate where trade’s comparative advantages lie.  The ICVC...

On May 2nd, we reported to you that 5G wireless is DOA and showed why:  it is too capital inefficient and carrier balance sheets cannot support this level of capital inefficiency.   Now come rumors that to pay for 5G, VZ may have to spin off Oath, it’s a mashup of Yahoo! and AOL.   The $10 billion or so that it might get for this is a drop in the 5G bucket.  So, expect way, way more capital restru...

FutureCreators know that we are about to enter the age of the Edgeless Cloud where processing power and memory density make everything a cloud server. This process will force a restructuring of all organizations on the planet that will disrupt an extraordinary range of human activities over the next quarter century. No maker of hardware, software, no networker, no retailer, not even an oil driller...