Shale Gas – the greatest disruptive technology facing the world of work
“The shale-gas revolution in America has been as sudden and startling as a supertanker performing a handbrake turn… the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that the United States will become...
View ArticleIn Conference: Thoughts on the future (and how to become a futurist)
Late last year, I was interviewed by Michael Jackson (“the other MJ”) for his radio show on Mix FM in Johannesburg. It has a half hour interview on future trends that included some reflections on the...
View ArticleVideo: Disruptive changes in the travel industry
In October 2012, I spoke at the ACTE (Association of Corporate Travel Executives) Annual European Convention in Rome. The topic of my 45 minute keynote presentation was “Leading in a Changing World”,...
View ArticleTomorrow’s Retail – Available Today!
Today we launch our new Tomorrow’s Retail report and we hope you take the chance to download and read it. And please don’t think that if you don’t work in retail, it’s not for you. One of the things...
View ArticleTomorrow’s Retail – using data to help customers (not scare them)
What if a retailer could anticipate what a customer needs before they even realise it themselves? US store Target, famously got into hot water when it used analytics to predict when customers were...
View ArticleWitness the death of Blackberry
I don’t know if Blackberry 10 (the Z10 phone with the BB10 operating system) is going to be any good. I hope it is, for the sake of all my friends and clients who’s IT departments force them to use...
View ArticleWeak signals becoming strong: Reshoring, shale gas and jobs in America
For a while now, our team has been tracking the shale gas issue. We flagged it a few years ago as a weak signal for massive disruptive change. It’s no longer weak: in our minds it is the single...
View ArticleNo more ‘Top Gear’? But how else could the driverless car impact you?
Self-driving cars? Seems like a million miles off, right? Like flying cars (which already exist, by the way). When Sebastian Thrun was 18, he lost his best friend in a car accident. Since then, he...
View ArticleA round up of predictions of future forces shaping our world
There are two types of future predictions: one looks to try and predict specific events and technologies, the other attempts to look beyond specifics at the causes of change and the forces that will...
View ArticleI want you in my office. Now. What’s really going on at Yahoo?
The biggest tech news so far this year has been an announcement by Yahoo that they want “all hands on deck” and that all work-from-home is being cancelled as from June. Irked Yahoo employees have...
View ArticleVideo: Fujitsu’s 21st Century Leadership series
Recently, I spoke at an evening function hosted by Fujitsu in London. The theme was: “Who’s in charge? Leadership in the 21st century workplace”. Liv Garfield, CEO of BT Openreach, and myself shared...
View ArticleIntel’s Top 5 Tech Trends
I am sitting at a conference in Dubai, listening to one of Intel’s top guys in the Middle East talking about technology disruptors that Intel expects to see in the next few years. He is listing five...
View ArticleBook review: Makers, The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
A few years ago, then editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson built a small plane out of Lego parts with his kids. After realizing that even children’s toys now come packed with advanced sensors and...
View ArticleKeep your hands off my genes
And now an entry from the case files of the totally bleeding obvious: Yesterday the Supreme Court of the USA finally agreed – unanimously – that genes cannot be patented. In a stunning example of...
View ArticleTomorrowToday TV: Vidcasts on future trends and disruptive change
In addition to our new Internet TV channel, powered by YourBusinessChannel, the TomorrowToday team continues to develop video-based resources. We’re committed to bringing you strategic insights that...
View ArticleWhy Apple introduced maps (before it was ready) and why it’s brilliant for us...
So, the iPhone 5 has been launched along with iOS 6, Apple’s latest operating system for its mobile devices. As always a few users have had hiccups upgrading, and Apple has already released a further...
View ArticleThe Goldilocks Principle: On Learning Leadership
Some years ago I asked a friend who was responsible for some of the most successful TV adverts in South Africa – she was the advertising agency’s account manager for a fast food brand – what made the...
View Article‘Mind the Gap’ is now available in Kindle
My award winning and best selling book, “Mind the Gap” has just been released in electronic format and is now available in Kindle and other e-pub formats. My publisher, Penguin, has finally completed...
View ArticleThe Third Wave of the Digital Age
Last Saturday, I spoke at a TEDx conference in London. The talk I initially scripted would have taken longer than half an hour – not quite TED style! The talk I planned to give would actually have...
View ArticleVideo: Big data, infographics and the role of IT in a new world of work
I spoke at a conference for the German company, Haniel earlier this year. The audience was largely German and engineers, so I toned down my normal style (a bit of energy, a bit of humour) to suit...
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