On the back of an Australia.com article, Travel Weekly also featured my 2016 food and wine trends and came up with this: From naked wines to savoury desserts, we unravel the food and wine trends that will grace our travel landscape in 2016. Aussies love food. They also love booze.

The window between a signal arriving and it demanding a response is shortening. Food and Wine Trends for 2016 / Travel Weekly 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 Food and Wine Trends for 2016 / Travel Weekly 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.