"Not so far in the future", says the futurist. The issue with KPIs is that it focuses attention on a single indicator, which is what most business in the world

"Not so far in the future", says the futurist. The issue with KPIs is that it focuses attention on a single indicator, which is what most business in the world revolves around (a stock ticker is a good example). Businesses run in a holistic way tend to do better, such as those explained in Good to Great (productive paranoia + empirical creativity + fanatical discipline). The same holistic approach could be applied to our economy, but lots of moving parts is going to make it hard to tell when, or if, things need to be changed. I expect a financial meltdown to be the thing that causes a revisit to exploring new business and economic models.