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FutureCreators episodes

  • China Finally Gets It: Part 2

    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

    7 min
  • China Finally Gets It - Part 1

      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 over a decade. Recorded 1/25/2019 

    8 min
  • Break up of all the world’s phone companies.

    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. There is no way out of this.  Break up is next.  The only questions are: when, how and with what result. Field day for the investment banks.

    7 min
  • Information Cost-Velocity Curve and Import Taxes

    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

    7 min
  • Information Velocity and SCM

    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!

    8 min
  • Information Surface and Brand

    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!

    7 min
  • Amazon and Whole Foods : The Real Story

    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.

    8 min

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At FutureCreators, our mission is to help you unlock the key to scalable profitability: turning customer information into cash faster than your competition and do it at Zettabyte scale. We help you…