by Dean van Leeuwen | Jul 16, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
A recent MIT Technology Review reveals an alarming trend. Since the early 2000’s and increasingly since the financial crisis of 2008, the levels of employment have decreased even though productivity has increased over the same period. Erik Brynjolfsson And...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jul 12, 2013 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
There is a pattern to the disruption of industries – change happens slowly, with a few early-adopters taking a technology and innovating, but not always in the optimum way. Then it happens quickly – and a whole industry can come tumbling down. Take digital...
by Keith Coats | Jul 9, 2013 | Archive, Diversity, Future Trends, Leadership
China is like a large building site. Well in truth, China is a large building site. Any visit to a Chinese city (and sometimes not even a city) there is evidence of building activity. From my hotel window in Guangzhou I counted 38 cranes and a building that was still...
by Graeme Codrington | Jul 9, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends
I was alerted to the Digital Trends 2013 website a few days ago. It’s a collaboration between Microsoft, IPG Mediabrands and The Future Laboratory (although the domain name indicates that MS is the dominant partner). It looks like this might be updated on an...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jun 28, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends
Google is winning and you don’t have to search very far to find out why, says Fast Company writer Frahad Manjoo. In a world of the tech giants – battling against the likes of Facebook, Amazon and Apple – Google has the edge, not because it is winning on...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jun 27, 2013 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Leadership
A disruptive forces is not a force that results in incremental changes, improving products or services one step at a time. Rather disruptive forces result in a breakthrough or a step change that transforms society forever. Sometimes the disruption is complete and...
