One of my many resolutions recently was to spend a lot of my time dreaming big. Therefore, along the way, I plan on sharing everything I know about automotive technology forecasting and disrupting the future of smart cities, to help willing followers take a step closer to their own promised mobility land.

Over the last 20 years, I have disrupted the present by predicting the automotive future with eerie accuracy, with my resolution of ‘dream big or go home’ I have decided to also create a brighter mobility future. While some people are better at predictions than others, about 2% are part of the disruptive elite. After 2 decades of proven results forecasting automotive technologies and supply chains, without a doubt, my curriculum vitae defines me as a part of that exclusive group with VIP status.

To be part of the disruptive game-changing elite that accurately predicts the automotive future you need to be:

• Cautious – nothing is certain in the automotive world
• Humble – the reality of mobility is infinitely complex
• Nondeterministic – what happens is not meant to be and does not have to happen for smart cities
• Actively open-minded – past automotive beliefs are a hypothesis to be tested, not mobility future treasures to be protected
• Intelligent – automotive knowledgeable with a need for cognition and intellectually curious for mobility
• Reflective – automotive introspective and mobility self-critical
• Numerate – comfortable with negative forecast numbers
• Pragmatic – not wedded to any automotive idea or agenda
• Analytical – capable of stepping back from the tip of your nose perspective and considering other automotive views
• Insightful – value diverse automotive views and synthesize them into your own
• Probabilistic – judge using many grades of automotive maybe
• Thoughtful updater – when automotive facts change, change your mobility mind
• Good intuitive psychologist – aware of the value of checking your thinking for automotive biases
• A growth mindset – Believe it is possible to get better smart cities
• Grit – Determined to keep at it however long it takes to improve the automotive industry