business dynamics

Last month, I jumped into the New Year with a discussion of how the trends we face these days are influencing our recent experiences in business, society and life in general.   In doing so, we navigated our through a mixed bag of factors - advancing technology, interesting economic times and complex legal conditions on the grand scale up alongside local, narrower issues having to do with the emergence of the watershaping business, the wayward nature of trade associations and the state of relevant education for our trades.   All that was intended to set up this column's discussion of where we, as the watershaping industry, might be going in the months and years to come.  Pure prognostication, however, is an imperfect process in which I won't indulge.  Rather than get into the aimless game of offering predictions, I'll delve instead into