Declining Job Markets everywhere – even chicken sexers are changing
I had to check that it wasn't April Fool's Day when I read an article yesterday. It tells the story of an industry that is changing. On this blog, we try to provide the reasons why the future of world of work is changing and give insights into what it might look like....
A bit of fun: 10 Incredible Politician Technology Gaffs
FastCompany magazine recently were a bit taken aback by a very unscientific survey that rated the "Digital IQ" of the United States Senators. It was a completely nonsense survey, but it did allow the magazine the opportunity to poke fun at some top politicians who...
Constant Change must be a Continuous Business Process
At TomorrowToday we are convinced that the decade ahead will be the most turbulent that any of us have ever experienced. The change will not be spectacular (in the sense that there will be world changing changes), but rather that the speed and complexity of change...
The evolution of the Gen Y hipster
I came across a great post on Gen Y and being hip and cool, written by the brilliant Carol Philips Carol is one of the world's leading authorities on Gen Y and I think her post succinctly captures who they are. I especially like the quote she uses from Outlaw...
Gartner Says the World of Work Will Witness 10 Changes During the Next 10 Years
I was recently sent this list by email. A quick Google search points to the source at Gartner. It's a quick read and has some useful insights and thought provokers. The world of today is dramatically different from 20 years ago and with the lines between work and...
A new normal – a new reality – for the economy
This is an excellent interview with Mark Anderson, the editor, publisher, and chief correspondent of the Strategic News Service newsletter. It was conducted by S+B (Booz & Co's ezine) in July, and gives one view of the "new normal" that is emerging. Well worth a read:...
Mind Games – games where thinking REALLY counts
Got sent a link from Faaiez (twitter username : ) Very short article from The Los Angeles Times profiling some new games that require you to really engage your mind in order to play them. Engage as in, in order to move things you have to think them into action....
How much Klout do you have on Twitter?
I mainly use two online apps to run the Twitter accounts I run. And I use these two because they do very different things. There are some things I need to do from time to time where the one trumps the other, and visa versa for other things. So there's no getting rid...
Wave the Flag…Today!
Tonight Bafana Bafana take to the field. New game, new era, new Coach, new goals to achieve…and hopefully score. In a way this represents a rebirth of sorts following all that was experienced and accomplished during the World Cup. The challenge is for all South...
Precious – a bicycle that Tweets!
Have you ever heard about Tweetjects? - objects that Tweet, It's a term coined by Dr Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM's Master Inventor (that has to be the coolest title out there!) and he is on a quest to enable objects to provide people with relevant information without us...
When People Reckon It’s OK to Cheat, by Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely, professor, author and behavioural economist, is someone I have found in recent months. His research is fresh and his insights interesting. He is the author of the best selling "Predictably Irrational" (buy now on Amazon.co.uk or Kalahari.net). He is doing...
Cell C may need more than (Trevor) Noah’s Ark to get them out of this one?
I'm sure it started out as a great idea at CellC Marketing HQ? The mobile phone industry has a mostly terrible name when it comes to customer service. Lines drop all the time, prices cripple you, data crawls regularly and call centers frustrate whatever life you still...
As Google Wave dies, here’s what Foursquare does NOT understand about social media
Google officially axed the underutilised (and overhyped) Google Wave project last week (read Fast Company's obituary here). I have a fear that my favourite geo-tagging program, Foursquare, will go the same way. Foursquare allows you to use your mobile phone's GPS...
Talent teams vs Talented individuals
A new report is about to be released in Organization Science, entitled: "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness" (Authors: Boris Groysberg, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein). Their Abstract says: Can...
Using Design thinking to create a culture of innovation
Working through some old magazine clippings last week, I found this amazing excerpt from a book that was released just a year ago. It's by Tim Brown, the CEO of design shop IDEO, and is called "Change by Design" (buy it Amazon.co.uk or Kalahari.net). The excerpt gives...
Flattr Update – How paying for content is shifting and changing
A while back I wrote about new models for paying for content online. One of the new developments I wrote about was Flattr. It's a 'closed system' that allows you to pay people for the content they produce, as long as they're part of the Flattr system. I like the ethos...
Where are the markets going? No-one really knows, and that's the 'new normal'
One of the strong messages of our work on future trends is that this recession has been more than just a financial downturn. In almost every industry we work in, the past two years have seen the acceleration of forces and drivers of change that are changing the...
Where are the markets going? No-one really knows, and that’s the ‘new normal’
One of the strong messages of our work on future trends is that this recession has been more than just a financial downturn. In almost every industry we work in, the past two years have seen the acceleration of forces and drivers of change that are changing the...
Men your time is up!
I came across a very interesting and well written article in The Atlantic which examines the world in which women have now emerged as the majority workforce for the first time in US history. This is an incredible milestone and here are a few of the facts driving this...
Do we Twitter because we’re human, and are we human because we Twitter?
Last year I read 'Born to Run'. If you're a runner, or would like to be, and haven't read it, then do yourself a favour, it's a goodie. At the end of the book the author suggests that Homo Sapiens made it to where we have because we're runners. And then drops this...