Getting beyond the news cycle stories and deciphering what is going on in Brazil can be tough. Brazilintel is an English language hub for exploring big social, economic and environmental themes about one of the new centres of a rebalancing global economy. It digs deep into thinking abut the type of economies and society being created creating a space for Brazil to be a part of the big global conversations. Reports, research and more engage with what is going on, who is doing it and where these things are happening.
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This project explores the impact of mobile services and personal data on behaviour change. The aim is to take the explosive growth of Groupon, ally it to location based services, add in role playing game elements as and in expertise on mobile payments in China as well as research into social currencies and local banks like the Brixton pound and the Banco de Palmas to create a picture of this emerging landscape.The next phase of research, explored in conjunction with developers, LBS professionals and social innovators, will comprise a series of interviews and articles from across the spectrum as well as a short research piece providing a global perspective from China, Brazil, Africa and India as well as Europe and the US.
This project explores how battered retailers can make a big shift out of a flawed race to the bottom and reset their raison d’etre away from the ever diminishing returns of the (now defunct) lobotomy economy model.
We envisage retail spaces becoming mass collaboration hubs, centres of learning, creativity catalysts, brimming with memorable experiences. One dimensional retail is over, a new compact is brewing. Can retail reset its relationships and play a role in economic renewal? Can it connect with a thriving network of independent makers and doers that are deftly challenging the decaying paradigm? And is anyone goint to pull their head out of the sand and understand the implications of the old model’s export to new centres of demand?
Visit retailreset.com, read more about some of the ideas or get in touch to learn more
Brazil’s New Middle Classes make up over 50% of the country’s population and are the engine of the economy’s recent turbo-charged performance. But as the world rebalances economically, environmentally and socially, is this new-found prosperity under threat?The full report – Brazil’s New Middle Classes: 21st Century Prosperity for a rebalancing planet examines who the new middle classes are, setting out their emergence alongside Brazil’s recent history. It explores potential threats to this group’s continued prosperity coupled with their importance to the emerging global economic landscape.
Finally, it provides a toolkit of techniques being used to reconfigure business models to engage meaningfully with this group with case studies, interviews and examples from leading efforts, ranging from service design to open innovation, that are helping businesses rebalance and redefine how they operate in the 21st century.
Watch the video for a 5 minute executive summary of the report, get in touch to find out more or contribute.
What will the Brazil China relationship look like when Brazil super charged growth rate cools and China’s demand for raw materials weakens? What are embryonic industries and types of expertise that these two countries will be sharing in the years ahead in relation to the challenges they both face?This short note produced for Brazilintel explores the Brazil China relationship its recent past, the present and its future.It begins by outlining significant investments over the last year then examines what this relationship may come to look like in the future in a commodities. Go to Brazilintel to read the note.