2014 will see Australia’s population increase by one (1) new person every 1 minute and 18 seconds, adding 364,997 more Aussie’s than we started the year with to end up with a total of 23,701,331 Aussies. We will have three (3) Australian state elections one in South Australia in .

When signals like Welcome back to 2014 emerge, organisations that engage early have the advantage of choosing their response rather than reacting to events. That gap between those who prepared and those who did not is where competitive positioning is actually made or lost.

The most important question is not whether Welcome back to 2014 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.