The Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming the consumption landscape by creating opportunities for value through game-changing technologies. With consumer spending driving approximately 60% of global GDP, embracing the power of technology to create value is paramount to ensuring progress throughout developed and emerging economies. Our Platform, with an engagement of over 150 organizations, has prioritized specific initiatives to leverage this opportunity.

Together we work to meet consumer expectations amid changing demographics. We drive the adoption of new technologies poised to transform value chains (from artificial intelligence to the internet of things and blockchain).

Our Platform supports innovative customer relationship models, while addressing trust and transparency concerns in the world of big data. With our Members and Partners, we tackle ensuing societal challenges including urban-rural divides, environmental degradation due to overconsumption, and worker reskilling to mitigate inequality.

Lié Projets

Accelerating Consumer Health and Well-Being

The World Health Organization (WHO) has noted that health is “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely an absence of disease and infirmity”. Currently, p...

Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets

The Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets is a multi-year project which focuses on the evolution of consumption in emerging markets (China, India, ASEAN) that comprise ove...

Loop

The Loop Initiative aims to establish a new model of consumption that ends society’s dependence on disposability and eliminates the idea of waste. By doing so, it supports responsible con...

Consumers and Climate Change

Over 65% of consumers are worried about climate change but they are unclear on how to engage on this critical issue. This initiative brings private, public and civil society actors togeth...

Precision Consumer 2030

New 4IR advancements in biometric technologies and data have opened up opportunities for consumers to hyper-personalize and tailor services towards healthier outcomes in ways never before...

Preparing for the Future of Work: Consumer Industries Task Force

As technology develops at an accelerated pace, cognitive abilities and tasks that were once thought to be reserved for humans are increasingly being carried out by machines, causing growi...

Future of Retail - Operating Models of the Future

Last year’s report on the Future of Retail, developed for the Annual Meeting in 2017, projected that consumer-centric industries will go through more change in the next ten years than the...

Bio-Innovation Dialogue Initiative

The unprecedented speed and transformative potential of recent innovations in the life sciences raise fundamental questions about humanity’s relationship with our planet’s biodiversity, h...

Citizen-Centric Consumer Ecosystems

Hubs, Platforms and Ecosystems have emerged as a new mega-force of global commercial and consumer value creation but much of this growth has been organic and opportunistic and contained w...

Lié Rapports

Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets: India

This report sheds light on one of the fastest growing economies in the world - India. By 2030, India will see a tremendous jump in consumer spending driven by increased incomes, a billion...

7 janvier 2019

Bio-Innovation in the Food System: Towards a New Chapter in Multistakeholder Collaboration

Mindful of the systemic nature of the nutrition, food security and environmental challenges faced by today's food system, the present discussion paper focuses more specifically on the fut...

21 septembre 2018

Operating Models for the Future of Consumption

This report highlights how increasingly empowered consumers and rapidly emerging technologies are bringing dramatic and accelerating change to the fundamental structure of business and op...

5 mars 2018

Future of Consumption in Fast-Growth Consumer Markets: China

This report argues that China will have the world’s largest middle class fueled by income-growth in the next 10 years.

5 mars 2018

Shaping the Future of Retail for Consumer Industries

This report highlights the game-changing technologies which will fundamentally change how retail and consumer brands do business over the next decade and shape new frontiers for physical ...

15 janvier 2017

En vedette: Future of Consumption Voir tous

Les téléphones portables plus tendance que les toilettes ?

Vinny Ricciardi · World Bank 10 oct. 2019