MBSTL Business - Growing a Business - Forecasting & Trend Analysis: Home

• How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique (HBR)
• Are You Ignoring Trends That Could Shake Up Your Business? (HBR)
• 2020's Hottest Businesses, Markets and Trends (SCORE Webinar)
• Collaborative Consumption: How to Utilize Smart Sharing Solutions (SCORE Webinar)
• How to Tap into the $1.5 Trillion Hispanic Economy (SCORE Webinar)
• Maintaining an Agile Company: Tips to Respond to Changing Markets and Changing Customers (SCORE Course on Demand)

General Trends

• TrendWatching
• TrendHunter - Business
• Annual Trends Report 2019 (Havas PR)
• Global Trends
• Top Ten 2023 Business Trends (Business News Daily)
• Monthly Trend Briefings

Business Trends

• Small Business Trends
• Business Idea Trends (Entrepreneur Magazine)
• 50 Small Business Trends and Predictions for 2019 (Business News Daily)
• KPMG Global Insights and Predictions Pulse Survey (KPMG)
• Business Trends (Deloitte)

Consumer Trends

• 10 Hot Consumer Trends 2030 (Ericsson)
• Think with Google Consumer Insights
• The consumer sector in 2030: Trends and questions to consider (McKinsey & Company)
• Consumer Trends (National Retail Federation)
• Consumer Trends (Restaurant-Hospitality)
• Consumer Trends (Experian Marketing Services)
• Nielsen Insights Reports

​Consumer Demographics

• County Profiles (Maine Center for Workforce Research and Information)
• Economics & Demographics (State of Maine Office of Policy and Management)
• Data.census.gov (United States Census Bureau)
• America's Families & Living Arrangements 2019 (United States Census Bureau)
• Consumer Expenditure Survey Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) program, which consists of two surveys that provide information on the buying habits of American consumers, the Quarterly Interview Survey and the Diary Survey.

Demographic Trends

• American Demographics (United States Census Bureau)
• Projections of the Size and Composition of the U.S. Population: 2014 to 2060 (U.S. Census)
• Demographic Shift 2019 (Pew Research)
• Demographic Trends 2010-2060 (ProximityOne)
• 10 demographic trends that are shaping the U.S. and the world (Pew Research Center)
• Hispanic Trends (Pew Research Center)

Trends by Industry

• Trends by Industry (PWC)
• Industry Outlook (Deloitte)
• Trends by Industry (Accenture)
• Ten IT-enabled Business Trends for the Decade Ahead (McKinsey & Company)
• Business and Industry Sector Ratings (Gallup)

Proquest One Business
Business scholarly and trade articles can be found here. Information is fairly current, great for in-depth or theoretical analysis. 

US Newsstand
Includes about 1600 news sources. Majority of the sources are for general interest; about 150 sources relate to business and economics. New York Times (1980-Present); Financial Times (1996-a month ago); Wall Street Journal (1984-Present); Maine papers included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+).

Maine News
Index to and full text coverage of four Maine newspapers. Database includes comprehensive coverage of the Bangor Daily News (12/3/92-present) and the Portland Press Herald (10/30/95-present). Selected business coverage of the Central Maine Morning Sentinel (8/12/93-8/27/97) and Maine Times (2/4/95-present). Updated regularly.

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