by Dean van Leeuwen | Sep 15, 2014 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
Today Graeme Codrington and I are part of the London Business School team working with the leadership of a petroleum company from the Middle East. The course is being held in London and we were talking to them about disruptive forces. One of the forces that will...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 13, 2014 | Archive, Future Trends
Seedstars World is a Geneva-based company that holds competitions for startups around the world. Their list of competition winners from the last year includes 19 emerging market companies that are innovating products and services with some exceptional promise. We...
by Raymond de Villiers | Sep 4, 2014 | Archive, Future Trends
The sports car that runs on SALTWATER: Vehicle goes from 0 to 60mph in 2.8 seconds – and has just been approved for EU roads Quant e-Sportlimousine’s top speed is 217mph – equal to a McLaren P1 The car uses a saltwater flow cell system to power four...
by Raymond de Villiers | Sep 2, 2014 | Archive, Future Trends
In early August 2014 Stats SA released the annual population estimates for South Africa. The report made for interesting reading, especially when our demographic information is positioned against that of the major developed economies of the European Union and the...
by Graeme Codrington | Aug 26, 2014 | Archive, Future Trends
The Ice Bucket challenge for ALS is probably the most successful meme created thus far for social media. Of course, social media experts are now trying to reverse engineer it to discover the secrets to successfully created a viral campaign – that holy grail of...
by Dawna MacLean | Aug 20, 2014 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
I have come to believe that we are all spinning our wheels in our efforts to change until we learn to understand and embrace our irrationality. I watched anotherDan Ariely talk this weekend and he shared an analogy that really helps illustrate why we are so...