Trend Opportunity Profile: Urbanization-Second Edition

Visionary Perspective on Transformations Enabling Growth and Innovation to 2030

The trend opportunity profile series covers specific opportunities emerging from evolving and future trends. It helps clients discover and prioritize the most consequential medium-to-long-term trends that are actively transforming their businesses' growth environment. These trend opportunity profiles cover 11 key industries: aerospace and defense; health, wellness, and wellbeing; retail; information and communication technologies; supply chain and logistics; fast-moving consumer goods; security; energy and environment; business and financial services; mobility; industrial; and food and agriculture.

The urbanization trend opportunity series covers technology innovations in the urbanization environment. This includes specific opportunities emerging from future/evolving trends and moving toward smart cities and covers blockchain for city governance, climate-resilient housing, environmental monitoring urban infrastructure, IoT sensors in smart cities, smart building technologies, open data portal (city dashboard), virtual city (3D city model), and smart urban labs.

This trend opportunity profile analyzes the most promising growth opportunities that have the potential to transform the current ecosystem of urbanization. The medium-to-long-term trend rating defines the future certainty and impact of the trend.