Logistics Trend Radar DHL Innovation

Throughout this series, we’ve discovered how the DHL Logistics Trend Radar (LTR) has identified the technologies and trends that are going to help shape our future. In this final episode, we find out how the LTR is used as a tool to help map opportunities and solve challenges for DHL’s Customers. We take a brief look inside DHL’s Innovation Centres, discover more about what it takes to put this forward-thinking document together, and just why DHL publishes the Logistics Trend Radar.

Even though our lives are more online and digital than ever, we still live in a physical world. But combining technology and data with that world means the objects we see and touch every day are being transferred into the digital realm. In this episode, we discuss how virtual versions of products and processes - also known as Digital Twins - is a business practice that is expanding in its scope and use.

Imagine if you never had to buy another lightbulb... Imagine instead that you could just pay for the light it emitted - and when it broke, someone sent you a new one, and again you paid just for the time that it was switched on. This is the concept behind servitisation.

In this episode we look at how it’s changing the world of business, and what it means for companies and their customers.

It’s a topic that sci-fi creators and fans have been fascinated with for decades, and to most people, the idea that human strength and ability can be enhanced by machines remains in the realm of fantasy.

But as we’ll find out in this episode, a symbiosis between humans and technology is already improving our daily lives at work and at home. More strength, added intelligence, and better speed: these are the superpowers delivered by bionic enhancement.

These days, the sound of a drone is no longer as otherworldly as it once was, thanks to the wide range of applications in which the technology finds itself. From military to farming, and from filmmaking to leisure, the drone has flown its way into our common experience.

In this episode, we explore how drones are set to become an even bigger part of our lives, and the challenges faced by the technology. We chat about some of its lesser-known applications, and explore a few areas in which it may be landing in the near future.

Someone once called it “the final frontier” - and it’s a frontier into which we are taking our first tentative steps: space.

In this episode, we go boldly into zero-gravity logistics, explore how interplanetary deliveries are shaping up, and discover how yesterday’s science fiction is now becoming a daily reality. This is the brave new world of space logistics.