American industries that will boom and those that are doomed in the next decade
Business Insider recently ran an article looking at Labor Bureau statistics and predicting which industries will experience significant decline in the next decade, and another article suggesting which industries will boom. While I don't agree with their whole list, it...
Booz & Co’s Strategy+Business Best Business Blogs of 2013
The editor of Booz & Co's Strategic+Business magazine and blog site selected his favourite business blogs of 2013. I like this list a lot - there's some really valuable articles here. It's an eclectic list, but well worth taking some time to read through and share...
Driverless cars and a road revolution
FastCompany recently ran an article which is one of the best analyses of the driverless car revolution that is about to take us by storm. It's well worth reading in detail here. As the author points out, what stands in the way of a massive revolution now is not the...
Looking out the window: Four leadership insights from 2013
Currently I am on my last business trip for 2013. Soon it will be time for a short break before the travel begins once more in early January with a trip to Ecuador. By the time this trip is complete it will have meant 143 flights that have involved multiple trips to...
Changing cycling forever
I don't enjoy cycling, but my UK colleagues do. Dean van Leeuwen, James Dunne and Wendy Mauchline all regularly hit the roads and cycle tracks of the world in a serious way. So, when I saw this neat little video about a new invention, the Copenhagen wheel, I...
Today’sTransformers: Hointer & Nadia Shouraboura
“We write code, play with robots, experiment with tensioned tubes and cables and drink lots of Red Bull,” says Nadia Shouraboura CEO of new start up Hointer a retail store that combines technology and with traditional shopping. It's the ultimate in high-tech, modern...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
The famous lyric from the Beatles song of 1967 has moved from an individual plea to a loved one, to a more general appeal to society. A lot has happened between 1967 and now: man has landed on the moon, the Communist Soviet Union has disintegrated, almost everyone...