A Framework for Building Competitive Advantage
"So overwhelming was the response to my appeal that it seemed as though all the men of Great Britain were determined to accompany me,” said adventurer and explorer Ernest Shackleton following the placement of his newspaper advert: “Men wanted for hazardous journey to...
Reflections on Deloitte 2016 Global Millennial Survey
Since 2013 Deloitte has conducted an annual global survey looking at the status of Millennials in the workplace. These surveys can be viewed and downloaded: 2013 Global Millennial Survey 2014 Global Millennial Survey 2015 Global Millennial Survey The survey for 2016...
Initiating a new order of things
It was Machiavelli who wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things”. Yet, for the most part, this is exactly the terrain that most leaders constantly find...
Digital Natives and Rules
[Transcript] Some older generations often complain that the digital natives don't follow the rules. There is a viral video doing the rounds on the Internet of an exam invigilator who has called time on the exam. A young man walks up too late and the invigilator...
100-day plan for Building a Questing Culture
Questers look at the world differently. They examine markets and rather than think how can I create a better product, app or service; they look at complete systems, and identify what is broken. This is a subtle but important difference. Using first-principle thinking...
TEDx Talk on the Future of Leadership in the 21st Century
TomorrowToday Global's founding partner and Chief Exploration Officer: Dean van Leeuwen, had the privilege of being invited to talk at TEDxUNic at the end of 2015 on the topic: The Future is... Dean chose to speak on the power of the leaders' quest taking ideas and...
Apple is losing its sparkle. Here is why.
Apple, the iconic tech giant has been the world's most valuable listed company for nearly 5 years, largely thanks to the sale of over 700m iPhones. Just today (27.01.16) Apple announced the biggest quarterly year-on-year results by a public company in history. Apple...
QUOTED: Move over, baby boomers and millennials – ‘founders’ will be shaping the future
In the UK's Independent newspaper, TomorrowToday's CEO, Graeme Codrington, contributed to an excellent article on the next generation of young people growing up right now, and how they'll be defined by - and will in turn, define - the world around them. Read the...
QUOTED: Move over, baby boomers and millennials – ‘founders’ will be shaping the future
In the UK's Independent newspaper, TomorrowToday's CEO, Graeme Codrington, contributed to an excellent article on the next generation of young people growing up right now, and how they'll be defined by - and will in turn, define - the world around them. Read the...
Quest
Competitive Advantage and the Art of Leadership in the 21st Century
Quest
Competitive Advantage and the Art of Leadership in the 21st Century
Future-Fit leadership: Getting rid of the rubbish
Strategy has often been confused with efficiency. If your ‘strategy’ is to be ‘efficient’ you have the wrong strategy. Efficiency is today nothing more than an organisational hygiene factor; when it comes to securing a competitive advantage, efficiency is necessary...
Achieve Remarkable Things
Building competitive advantage in a changing world
Re/Evolution
Building the DNA of a future-fit organisation
Digitizing Kids
[Transcript] If you are the parent of a five, six, seven, eight year old child you're probably spending quite a few minutes a day, hours a week, reading with them. Sitting down making sure that you read to them, and listening to them read to you. Isn't it great to...
Digitizing Kids
[Transcript] If you are the parent of a five, six, seven, eight year old child you're probably spending quite a few minutes a day, hours a week, reading with them. Sitting down making sure that you read to them, and listening to them read to you. Isn't it great to...
Future-Fit Leadership
Understanding what it means to be an Adaptive Leader
The Future of Banking: Blood in the Water
Every single institution and profession is under attack from the disruptive forces that are reshaping the world in a manner that is as relentless as it is unstoppable. The change frontiers are both ‘out there’– be that new frontiers in technology, massive...
It Won’t Happen To Us – Learning from Failure: 2 case studies
From the 1955 Fortune 500 list, only 71 companies still have their doors open for business. Given the status and entrenched success that goes with being listed in the Fortune 500, that is an alarming attrition rate. Big companies fail. Successful big companies fail....
What will smartphones do in 2018 that they aren’t doing in 2016?
At TomorrowToday Global, we don’t normally get involved in consumer trends or short-term predictions, especially about technology. We’re perfectly happy to wait for the next iPhone or Android update to be released and then do an assessment of its specifications. Our...