I am honored to have my 2016 food and wine trends featured in Australia.com and for it to form the basis of an international campaign promoting Australia’s great food and wine, so have a read at some of the mouth watering foods and wine we can look forward to in the next 12 month.

The window between a signal arriving and it demanding a response is shortening. Australia’s Food and Wine Trends for 2016 / is already shaping strategy conversations in forward-looking organisations. Treating it as a future concern rather than a present one builds a preparedness gap that will have to be closed under pressure.

The most important question is not whether Australia’s Food and Wine Trends for 2016 / will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.