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...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Sep 6, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends
There appears to be growing recognition by retail banks that to compete in the new world of work they need to focus not only on processes and efficiencies but more importantly on customer experience and service, so says the Financial Times in an interesting article...
by Graeme Codrington | Sep 3, 2010 | Archive, Future Trends
The times are truly changing. In a press release earlier this week, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that it may never again be released in print. This is not as bad as it sounds – it relates only to the third full edition of the 20 volume complete OED...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Sep 2, 2010 | Archive, Clients Feedback and Media, Future Trends
In the rapidly changing world of the Internet, Google has become one of its superstars. Within little more than a decade Google has risen to be a giant in the industry with almost 20,000 employees, revenue of $23.6 billion and profits of $6.5 billion. Growth though is...
