45-Minute Innovations: Harnessing Rapid Experimentation to Create Antifragile Teams
If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the idea of "innovation," picturing it as costly, resource-intensive, or overly complicated, you're certainly not alone. Yet, what if innovation could be as simple - and as quick - as assembling everyday materials in under an hour?...
Global Supply Chains Under Pressure: From Modern Slavery to Water Scarcity
In our latest episode of "Elephants in the Boardroom," hosts Graeme Codrington and Dean Van Leeuwen explore the hidden world of global supply chains with special guest Paul Stanley, CEO of Achilles. This eye-opening conversation reveals how supply chains have become...
Navigating an Aging Population: Challenges and Opportunities in 2025
The latest episode of "Elephants in the Boardroom" with hosts Graeme Codrington and Dean Van Leeuwen from TomorrowToday explores how an aging population is reshaping our society, economy, and personal lives. The Demographic Revolution. Today's world is...
Throw Forward Thursday: Imagine – end of 2024 message
Imagine... the future is imaginable. And our imaginations help to set the tone for how we engage with the future, and the world around us. So, at the end of 2024, let's imagine the best possible future we can - whatever that might mean for you. For me, it would be a...
Throw Forward Thursday: CEOs are not safe
On December 4, 2024, the CEO of one of America's largest healthcare insurers was shot dead on the streets of Manhattan. Angry people, living in a world that is filled with inequality and feeling squeezed on every side, will eventually snap. This is not something we...
Throw Forward Thursday: A Data Center sues town for all its water
It could happen. Sometime in the future. Data centres use an incredible amount of electricity and water. Towns that incentivise these data centres to locate nearby for jobs and tax benefits might find themselves dealing with unrealistic demands for power and water -...
Throw Forward Thursday: The 15 hour work week
Nearly 100 years, the famous economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030 we would all be working just 15 hours a week. If only, right? What went wrong? There is an answer, but you're probably not going to like it. We need to change the whole system to ensure...
Throw Forward Thursday: My AI assistant chooses who I vote for
Elections are messy, noisy and can overwhelm voters with too much information and too many choices. In the future, it could make sense for us to rely on our personal AI assistants - algorithms trained on our preferences, understanding our worldviews and able to mimic...
Throw Forward Thursday: The End of Company Emails
Don't get too excited by the title - it's not quite what you think. In the future, it is possible that companies will not supply us with email addresses, but we will rather bring our own (just like we buy our own cars, phones and have your own personal cellphone...
Throw Forward Thursday: The Day the Internet Dies
Imagine logging into your web browser and there's just nothing: no websites anywhere. You check your internet connection, and that seems fine. Your phone seems to be working. Except most of the apps are showing error messages, and there are just no websites. This is...
Throw Forward Thursday: The Talking Robots are Human Controlled
The near future of so-called autonomous humanoid robots is not quite what we imagine. Come with me to 2029, when a dark side of the robotic world becomes reality. The robots we will deploy in care homes and kindergartens - those humanoid robots who look after our...
Throw Forward Thursday: Smartphone Innovation (seems a bit stuck to me)
It's sometime in the future, and the next version of your favourite smartphone has just been released. Once again, the marketing hype is astounding, but the reality is disappointing. What did they say: it's a few millimetres smaller (or bigger), and slightly lighter,...
Throw Forward Thursday: Genetic Enhancement and Gender
Imagine what the world would look like if we all had the data about our genetic makeup, and we could see the many multiple ways our genetics shape who we are and what we are capable of. Imagine that gender wasn't the issue it is today as we think of the...
Throw Forward Thursday: Clones – Copy Yourself
Sometime in the future, we will develop the technologies to allow us to create copies of humans. But that's probably a long time in the future. More practically, we should be able to copy the way that people think, and digitise their personas, styles, knowledge and...
ThrowForward Thursday: The Great 50-year global drought
It's September 2082, and we mark the 50th anniversary of the official start of what has become The Great 50-Year Global Drought. Cities have been emptied, country borders changed, wars fought and entire economies gutted... and there seems to be no end in sight. This...
ThrowForward Thursday: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended
Sports News Headlines for 4 September 2039: Jet Pack Drone Racing League Suspended Just ahead of the first African Olympic Games in 2040, the latest Olympic sport of Jet Pack Drone Racing has been dealt a blow as two more deaths results in the suspension of the...
Throw Forward Thursday: The Death of Outsourced Procurement
More of a hope than a prediction, this episode of ThrowForward Thursday has a rant warning attached, as we imagine a future where companies have stopped outsourcing their supplier management to procurement services that make it incredibly difficult to sign contracts,...
Throw Forward Thursday: Ancient Virus Pandemics
Breaking news in 2037: the thawing of Arctic ice releases a 40,000-year-old virus that doctors have never seen before. Another unintended consequence of global warming, and a reminder that our world is changing dramatically right now. How would your business respond...
Throw Forward Thursday: Human/Robot Bionics
'Bionic' means Humans and Technology not just working with each other but augmenting and even integrating to supercharge our outputs. There are three obvious ways this could happen: Robotic exoskeletons and human/robot hybrids Software and applications augmenting...
Throw Forward Thursday: France Bans Energy Drinks (future scenario)
Imagine a world where a government bans energy drinks if they are proven to be bad for public health, and people are abusing their impact and causing damage to themselves and others. This is not a prediction, just a scenario. The question for you and your company is...