Patrick Dixon is one of the most popular futurists. He was ranked as one of 20 most influential business thinkers (Thinkers 50 2005) and consults many multinationals on the trends in markets. If I'm not mistaken, in the year 1997 he was invited to World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to give a presentation and this led to even more popularity for him.

I found a video from him in which he talks about the petrochemical industry trends in Europe and logistics / supply chain management and discusses whether the European petrochemical industry survive against Chinese competition or not. You can see the video here: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-7348687830857176606


It's a quite nice presentation even though he talks at a general level and doesn't go much into detail. He basically wants to say logistics is important! but you will find other good points in his speech.