Emerging Trends and Innovation in Trades

Successful businesses not only respond to their current customer needs, but often anticipate future trends and use innovation to develop new ideas, products or services. The future of skilled trades will be shaped by emerging trends such as sustainability, new entrants to the skilled trades and applied research and development as well as skills shortages driven by demographics and economic factors. Learn to analyze emerging trends within your field with the help of case studies, research reports, online collaborative tools and creative thinking methods. Develop the ability to continually improve the day-to-day operations and long-term sustainability of a trades business.

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