Fluency with the future

"Breaking Trends™ throws a hand grenade at tired old forms of management consultancy and strategic research. It's credible. It’s real. It’s globally-grounded. It’s not telling. It’s posing the right questions."
Paul Richmond Executive Director, Corporate Affairs and Media, Virgin Media

Breaking Trends™ is a global business intelligence consultancy for large media and Fortune 400 corporations and global brands that offers leadership teams robust business intelligence, enabling them to plan more confidently for the future.

Widely acknowledged as being in the vanguard of a new expert-mediated approach to business intelligence, we offer an independent and unique perspective on emerging and future global trends, and socio-cultural drivers around the world.

We focus primarily on the major transformative trends and developments that are shaping the future of advanced consumer markets in the developed and developing world.

We are one of the few organisations which offers globally-sourced business intelligence and analysis, combined with strategic consultancy services.

Most information about emerging and future trends can seldom be leveraged for genuinely strategic purposes, and often falls under the heading of ‘intriguing’ but not commercially relevant – especially when it comes to the strategic interests of global brands and major corporations. The expert-mediated and rigorous business intelligence that we offer provides a solid medium-term platform from which to plan coherently for the future – injecting cut-through and clarity.

Above all, our mission is uncomplicated – to leverage early business intelligence about emerging and future global trends to make companies more valuable and governments more effective. A key objective is to arm them with actionable − globally-grounded − strategic foresight, not just more background noise about the future.