by Dean van Leeuwen | Apr 5, 2013 | Archive
The last time the global music industry showed growth was 1999, when Britney Spears released Hit Me Baby One More Time and the likes of Manic Street Preachers and Belle & Sebastian won Brit awards. That year revenues peaked at $28.6bn; says James Waterson of City...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Apr 3, 2013 | Archive, Leadership
How many people do you know, were caught out by April fool jokes this year? Seth Godin played one of the best practical jokes when he blogged that Amazon was launching Kindle Zero a free tablet for all Prime members. Google pranksters were also out in full force with...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Mar 13, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
It’s not technologies that disrupt, rather it is the business model that the technology enables that creates the disruptive impact. Digital music had been around as a technology before Steve Jobs and Apple leveraged it to create a new business model that...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Mar 8, 2013 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
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 has set himself the goal of saving the 1 million people per year who...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Mar 7, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends
Our team at TomorrowToday Strategic Insights have been watching the developments in the shale gas revolution for a number of years and our earlier predictions of the massive disruptions this energy technology will deliver are becoming increasingly visible. We recently...
