Framework for Hybrid Decision Making
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Graeme Codrington. Whether you’re still working from home, back at the office, a hybrid of both (most likely), or have managed to secure a more digital nomad lifestyle since the world was turned...
5 for Friday – 20th January 2023
We are back and ready for 2023, with this week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. We don’t need resilience to...
Throw Forward Thursday: Smart Bandages and Preventative Healthcare
Today’s Throw Forward Thursday is pre-recorded, I've actually been in hospital myself, but the content is strangely appropriate as we consider how to proactively and preventatively take care of ourselves. We don't have to jump too far into the future to imagine a...
Throw Forward Thursday: Giving Lonely People the Choice to Chat
In 2021, a Dutch supermarket chain, Jumbo, created a special checkout line - it was designed to be slower and give people the opportunity to chat with each other and the cashier. It has received rave reviews, and Jumbo is now rolling it out to all their stores. Part...
Throw Forward Thursday: Food in the future
As we spend this last week of December battling to remember what day of the week it is, and finally finishing off the leftovers from our Christmas meal, here's a quick thought about food in the future. We will definitely be able to get more and more nutrients from...
Throw Forward Thursday: Smart glasses for driving and biometric feedback
We know that smart glasses, which include VR, AR and XR functionality and heads up displays are coming. But what if those glasses could also look back at us, and especially assess our physical and emotional state using biometric feedback from our eyes? TRANSCRIPT This...
Throw Forward Thursday: Energy (tomorrow and today)
We've talked about alternative and green energy solutions before on Throw Forward Thursday (Episode 6 and Episode 24). Today, we look not at the future but at something that happened last week as we got proof that nuclear fusion is possible. We knew it theoretically...
5 for Friday – 16th December 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. Leadership Thinker (and author of this week’s insights), Keith...
Throw Forward Thursday: Overnight 3D Print Shops
Our weekly series into future trends suggests that we might have dedicated 3D print shops, or maybe 3D printers in local building supplies stores that will be able to print out any 3D design for you overnight. A few decades from now we will probably all have...
Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Keith Coats. In September the United Nations Development Program published their ‘Human Development Report’ which described the state of play as being one of a ‘nagging sense that whatever...
5 for Friday – 9th December 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. In this week’s insights, Buhle Dlamini talks about How to develop...
Throw Forward Thursday: The End of Prisons
This week we imagine a future where restorative justice and rehabilitation takes precedence over retribution and the prison-industrial complex. It's a dream, that doesn't imagine any criminals (we wish), but rather a different way of dealing with them. Throw Forward...
How to Develop a Culturally Intelligent Organisation
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Buhle Dlamini. In today’s global economy, global leaders, human resource professionals, managers, and employees work with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds daily. Diversity alone is...
5 for Friday – 2nd December 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. 3 Key mistakes companies are making with their hybrid working...
Throw Forward Thursday: Smart Homes for Seniors
Sometime very soon, we need to change our view of what "old age" looks like, and especially change what type of facilities we think older people will be happy living in. The simple version is that we need tech-enabled smart homes for seniors. Watch the video for some...
3 Key mistakes companies are making with their hybrid working policies
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Graeme Codrington. Companies continue to be completely at sea with their hybrid working policies. Three key mistakes stand out for me:1. They don't understand that "hybrid" - by very definition -...
5 for Friday – 25th November 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. In this week's insights, Buhle talks about Three Focus Areas for...
Throw Forward Thursday: Grandparents of the Future
Imagine a future where grandparents are younger (or at least appear younger because they're healthier and living longer), where they get grandparent leave from their companies, and where we combine child and senior care in the same facilities. This is a wonderful...
3 Focus Areas for the FUTURE of Work and People
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Buhle Dlamini. Getting ready for a changing world of work requires us to not only understand the trends that are shaping the future but also to apply our minds to what these changes will mean for...
5 for Friday – 18th November 2022
This week's combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work. Three ways you and your team can become antifragile in 2023 -...