by Keith Coats | Apr 16, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Leadership
Friendly fire in a military context is often associated with tragic fatalities. However, it can also serve as welcome reinforcements, shift the momentum and win the battle. Disruption is ‘friendly fire’ and will either be the thing that kills you or the catalyst in...
by Keith Coats | Mar 31, 2015 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership, Organisational Development
There is the well-worn clique that, ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast every day’ but the reality is, it is spot-on. Organisational culture matters. It is within your culture – the way ‘we do things around here’, that your organisational DNA is located. Companies...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Mar 25, 2015 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership, Organisational Development
In the future the workforce will be more connected, workers will be virtual, mobile and temporary, they will be global, multi-generational and diverse – older and younger, different sexes, cultures and beliefs working side by side. We know this, it is happening...
by Graeme Codrington | Mar 25, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Leadership
The world is always changing – it always has been. But every now and again there are moments in history where all the forces of change seem to combine together to produce an era-defining shift. That’s what we study when we study history, even naming these times to...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Mar 18, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
“These devices are only going to get smaller and more powerful” say Om Malik of Fast Company. You can buy a Raspberry Pi with a 700MHz processor and 256 MB of memory for about $25. In 2001, a Mac with 450 MHz and 64MB of RAM cost $1,800.” Apple dominates the personal...
by Graeme Codrington | Feb 24, 2015 | Archive, Future Trends
Later this year (5 and 6 June to be precise), the final stage of the world’s most important robotics competition takes place in California. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (see details here) will see 11 robots compete for the toughest prize in robotics and robot...
