TomorrowToday: Welcome to our world
Imagine a company with no written contracts between the business partners; no offices; no underpinning capital; as much - or little leave as you want; measured by outcomes; no HR policies or any policies really - just sensible agreements on how things should work;...
Talent Management: It’s a three-door problem
The magazine ‘Parade’ had a column ‘Ask Marilyn’ by the person with the highest recorded IQ (according to the Guinness Book of Records), Marilyn vos Savant. In 1990 Craig Whitaker of Columbia wrote in with a question that is known as the ‘Monty Hall’ problem. The...
Two important questions every leader should be asking.
Over the past month I have been writing a series on how to be a great leader – how to become an adaptive leader. In today’s context there is an urgent need to rethink the approach and practice of leadership. This need to rethink extends to how we approach leadership...
Video: Graeme Codrington on Tomorrow’s Technologies Today
Earlier this year, our international director, Graeme Codrington, spoke at an event called AgriVision, which focused attention on how we will feed the growing world's population over the next few decades. Following Michael Porter on stage, Graeme's presentation looked...
Video: Graeme Codrington on Tomorrow's Technologies Today
Earlier this year, our international director, Graeme Codrington, spoke at an event called AgriVision, which focused attention on how we will feed the growing world's population over the next few decades. Following Michael Porter on stage, Graeme's presentation looked...
Top 7 Trends for Social Media in 2014
Going into 2014 I have spent some time looking into the predicted trends and have highlighted a few that I believe will take place in 2014. Image based content will increase This is a no-brainer but should be said. Image based content is becoming a high priority in...
“Minority Report” type marketing misses the point of the Connection Economy
Scanning cameras lock onto John Anderton's face as he walks through a shopping mall. Using facial recognition technology advertisers clock his presence and begin an invasive barrage of "personalised" advertisements designed to entice, cajole and convince him to...
When social media turns on you (don’t blame the messenger)
There will lots of chatter again about whether social media is a good thing or not after JP Morgan had to abandon a planned Twitter Q&A yesterday. The bank had invited people to tweet questions to them using the hashtag #AskJPM. Before the official live session even...
Preparing for Generation Z (or whatever you’d like to call them)
They have variously been named the “Homeland” generation, the “Re-generation” and the “Centennial” generation – but at the moment, we know them best (and rather lazily) as Generation Z. In the US, this generation is often held to have been born from 1995...
So you want to become a great leader?
Transforming a good leader into a great leader means becoming an adaptive leader. In facing the future, it is the major leadership challenge that you and your organisation will encounter. Good leaders are hard to come by. Growing good leaders from within is perhaps...
Seven steps to creating a Vibrant, Unreal, Crazy and Awesome world
The acronym VUCA comes from military vocabulary and stands for volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous situation. Originating in the late 1990's the term has infiltrated corporate and government organisations used primarily to generate emerging ideas and solutions...
Film director Joss Whedon on strong female leads
Joss Whedon, according to his Wikipedia entry, is an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, comic book author, composer, and actor. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures. He is best known as the...
Businesses that are building sustainable competitive advantage by doing good for society (Case Study)
In an earlier blog I spoke about the "perversions of the proper workings of capitalism". In my mind Capitalism is inherently good. The Capitalist seeks to find and address a need. They innovate, take risks and work out how to use capital to make a profit. The...
Reasons Why We Don’t Need Offices
I started my "proper" working career (after some military service which included being a professional musician, some student type part-time jobs and early entrepreneurial activity) at KPMG in the early 1990s. I joined the audit group, and was shown a corner of the...
Reasons Why We Don't Need Offices
I started my "proper" working career (after some military service which included being a professional musician, some student type part-time jobs and early entrepreneurial activity) at KPMG in the early 1990s. I joined the audit group, and was shown a corner of the...
Five reasons why addressing the “perversions of capitalism” will give you a competitive advantage
“The present state of affairs is really a perversion of the proper working of capitalism. It is all wrong to have millionaires before you have ceased to have slums...If we do not find some way of correcting that perversion of capitalism, our society will break...
The growing power of protest
On the 28th August 1963 civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King, led thousands of people on a march to America's capital, Washington DC. There he gave a speech that inspired and paved the way for equal rights and changed the world forever. Fifty years on there are...
Worldview shifting facts on the future of business
SAP recently released one of the best presentations on the future of business we have ever seen. Freely available on slideshare, it lists 99 facts that should have a profound impact on your view of the future, on what organisations need to do to be successful, and on...
Video: Summary of TIDES of Change – and implications of disruptions
Over the past few months I have been collecting video footage of the presentations I have done of our team's "TIDES of Change" presentation. Based on the research our Strategic Insights team has done over the past few years, we suggest that in addition to politics and...
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Competitive advantage in the Connection Economy [video]
With the emerging Connection economy, the rules across the board are changing. Nothing new in this as this has been a pattern that has imprinted all previous economic transitions from that of the ‘Hunter-Gatherer’ to the ‘Information era’. In this video (embedded...