by Graeme Codrington | Sep 13, 2010 | Archive, Clients Feedback and Media, Diversity, Future Trends
Jim Dator, a professor in the Futures Department of the University of Hawaii shared an interesting model with a colleague of mine (Keith Coats) recently. It’s about where futurists go to develop their scenarios for what is shaping the world of work. Up until a...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 11, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends
Johnson Controls, a company specialising in “optimising the energy and operational efficiency of buildings”, has been conducting global workplace research into what type of work environment today’s young people are looking for. It’s called the...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 11, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends, Organisational Development
Last week, on the US Labor Day holiday, Seth Godin’s blog carried an interesting insight into how labour changed as the industrial revolution reached its zenith. You can read an extract below. If you follow the thought through, then it must be a warning to us...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 9, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends
Thabo Mbeki proudly announced at the start of his presidency of South Africa that this century would be “Africa’s century”. That may or may not be true (and China and India would have something to say about it, too), but whatever happens in this...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Sep 9, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends
Last week I wrote a post posing the question “Is Google becoming a former supermodel”. Here is an excerpt from that post “In the rapidly changing world of the Internet, Google has become one of its superstars…Growth though is slowing and...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 8, 2010 | Archive, Change, Diversity, Future Trends, Leadership
The world is not really flat. Not yet, anyway. In his best-selling book about globalisation in the 21st century, Thomas Friedman suggested that it was. He argued that massive advances in telecommunications and ten converging trends had “flattened” the world and...
