The three underlying drivers that have helped establish and perpetuate these trends are:
- Demographic shifts. Population growth, increased urbanization, a widening divide between countries with youthful and quickly aging populations and a rapidly growing middle class are reshaping the business world and society as a whole.
- Reshaped global power structure. As the world recovers from the recession, the rise of relationships between the public and private sectors has shifted the balance of global power faster than most could have imagined just a few years ago.
- Disruptive innovation. Innovations in technology continue to have massive effects on business and society. Emerging markets are now becoming hotbeds of innovation, especially in efforts to reach the growing middle class and low-income consumers around the globe.