Throw Forward Thursday: DNA Data Storage
Every day, humans produce 2.4 quintillion bytes of data, and this doubles every two years or so at the moment. Most of this is now stored in "the cloud", which might be invisible to us, but is actually in massive data warehouses all around the world. If this continues...
Three ways you and your team can become antifragile in 2023
In last week’s TomorrowToday Tuesday Insights we introduced the concept of antifragility: a state of being where you grow stronger during disruption and gain from chaos and disorder. It’s more than resilience and adaptability, and it’s what we should all be aiming to...
5 for Friday – 11th 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. We need more than resilience to get through 2023 - we need to be...
Throw Forward Thursday: Communicating with Animals (and anyone in any language)
Imagine using the technologies we are currently developing to help us with voice recognition and real-time translation to be able to understand what animals are saying, and even talking to them in their own languages? This is a very real possibility by the 2040s. What...
We need more than resilience to get through 2023 – we need to be antifragile
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Graeme Codrington. I get knocked down. But I get up again… Be honest, you didn’t just read that - you sang it. This is the essence of resilience, and if there’s ever been a time when resilience...
5 for Friday – 4th 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. The Importance of Balancing your Innovation Culture. Read...
Throw Forward Thursday: The future of live sport on TV – The BEST way to watch the World Cup
About the only reason to pay for a premium TV subscription these days is live sport. If you're a fan, you'll know the value of live sporting events. But come with me to the future - hopefully not too many years away - when live sports include a variety of immersive...
Why the great women and men who shaped history began with this powerful question: Can it be made better?
If you want to encourage your children (or anyone, even yourself for that matter) to think about their successful future, what is the best question to ask? My parents would ask me: “What would you like to be when you grow up?” My answer was anything from a fireman,...
The Importance of Balancing your Innovation Culture
Today’s insights are brought to you by Dean van Leeuwen. Essentials for building a culture of innovation and exploration Organisations with a strong culture of innovation successfully master seven essentials which together we call Full Blown Innovation: Balance...
5 for Friday – 28th October 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. “Thinking like a Futurist” - Keith Coats talks about how being a...
Thinking like a Futurist
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Keith Coats. Being a ‘Futurist’ is not without its drawbacks! For one, it often means having to explain exactly what it is that you do. I once had a grumpy immigration official at Heathrow say to me,...
5 for Friday – 21st October 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, Dean van Leeuwen shares The Seven Human...
Throw Forward Thursday: Where to look to see the future
In last week's episode I shared our TIDES Model of Disruptive Change as a tool you can use to know WHAT to look for when you're looking at future trends. This week, we talk about WHERE you can look for evidence, examples and glimpses of the future. It's all about...
The 7 Human Skills Needed to Build a Bionic Business
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Dean van Leeuwen. In 1958 Jack Steele, coined the word bionic, blending the words biology and electronic. This was popularised by the 1970s U.S. television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The...
5 for Friday – 14th October 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. How to see disruption coming … before it changes everything....
Throw Forward Thursday: Where we get our ideas (The TIDES Model of Disruptive Change)
This is a special edition of Throw Forward Thursday, answering a question sent to us: "Where do you get all your ideas?" This episode I talk about our team's TIDES model of disruptive change, that helps us decide what to look for. These are the five most disruptive...
How to see disruption coming … before it changes everything
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Graeme Codrington. There are five main sources of disruption in our world today, and if you keep your eyes on each of them, you’ll do a much better job of anticipating change and preparing for the...
5 for Friday – 7th October 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, Graeme Codrington talks about Four...
Throw Forward Thursday: The end of frogs
Our story starts 20 years after a fungal infection wiped out the world's frogs. It continues today as we see a resurgence in malaria and other tropical diseases because the frogs are not eating insects. And we realise that this is an all-too-familiar story of how our...
Four Essentials for Surviving Disruption
Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague and futurist, Graeme Codrington. It goes without saying these days that we are facing disruptive times. It feels as if politics and economics especially are more volatile than they’ve been in a while, with...