by Dean van Leeuwen | Nov 3, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
ESPN Coach of the Century Vince Lombardi said: “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour – his greatest fulfilment to all he holds dear – is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he’s exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.” Here,...
by Keith Coats | Nov 3, 2015 | Change, Future Trends, Leadership
Demographics are a strange thing. They single a shift from the centre and if you are not paying attention, that shift can create an imbalance from which it is hard to recover. Demographic shifts are usually perceived as slow yet unexpected events can cause the shift...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Oct 30, 2015 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
Organisations wishing to thrive and gain competitive advantage over the next decades should focus on delivering meaningful benefits in a world that is struggling to sustain the growing demands of the 9.6 billion people that will inhabit our blue planet by the middle...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Oct 28, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
It’s worth bearing in mind that the advances over this century in robotics and intelligent machine learning applications mean that many of the knowledge jobs once taken as being safe from automation are now under threat. If you want to future-proof yourself from...
by Graeme Codrington | Oct 22, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
If you attend a few conferences this year, you’ll see this a few times: Uber is the world’s largest taxi company, but owns no cars. AirBnb is the world’ largest hotel group, but owns no property. Alibaba is the world’s largest retailer, but...
by Graeme Codrington | Oct 21, 2015 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
It’s 21 October 2015, and this is the future. At least, it is if you’re a fan of the hugely successful Back to the Future film franchise. In Back to Future II, Marty McFly and Doc Emmett Brown leap 30 years into their future to fix a problem with...
