Africa: the last frontier of growth and development
As the BRICS summit is currently underway in Durban, where the leading emerging market players of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (representing sub-Saharan Africa) discuss their strategic agenda for the next five years, it might be a good time to refresh...
A round up of predictions of future forces shaping our world
There are two types of future predictions: one looks to try and predict specific events and technologies, the other attempts to look beyond specifics at the causes of change and the forces that will shape the future. In a sense, the first looks for the milestones...
A round up of predictions of future forces shaping our world
There are two types of future predictions: one looks to try and predict specific events and technologies, the other attempts to look beyond specifics at the causes of change and the forces that will shape the future. In a sense, the first looks for the milestones...
The power behind disruptive business models
It's not technologies that disrupt, rather it is the business model that the technology enables that creates the disruptive impact. Digital music had been around as a technology before Steve Jobs and Apple leveraged it to create a new business model that completely...
No more ‘Top Gear’? But how else could the driverless car impact you?
Self-driving cars? Seems like a million miles off, right? Like flying cars (which already exist, by the way). When Sebastian Thrun was 18, he lost his best friend in a car accident. Since then, he has set himself the goal of saving the 1 million people per year who...
The Future of Energy and what the Shale Gas revolution means for you
Our team at TomorrowToday Strategic Insights have been watching the developments in the shale gas revolution for a number of years and our earlier predictions of the massive disruptions this energy technology will deliver are becoming increasingly visible. We recently...
Video: Principles of the digital age
I was asked by a US based client to record a few videos for them to get their team thinking about change and success in the digital age we are entering. I thought I'd share one or two of these with you. This one is 9 minutes long and is a simple overview of the...
Video: Principles of the digital age
I was asked by a US based client to record a few videos for them to get their team thinking about change and success in the digital age we are entering. I thought I'd share one or two of these with you. This one is 9 minutes long and is a simple overview of the...
Weak signals becoming strong: Reshoring, shale gas and jobs in America
For a while now, our team has been tracking the shale gas issue. We flagged it a few years ago as a weak signal for massive disruptive change. It's no longer weak: in our minds it is the single biggest force peeking over our horizons right now. The discovery, all...
Competitive Advantage: What matters most today and how we got here
The Connection Economy - Competitive Advantage: What matters most today and how we got here By Keith Coats, TomorrowToday International Partner Competitive advantage has always existed and understanding the evolution of what constitutes competitive advantage in...
What Impact Will Mobile Marketing And On-Line Shopping Have On Stores?
At TomorrowToday whatever we talk about is done so within the context of how the world is changing. There has been much written about this within the TomorrowToday stable. About how technology, institutional change, demographic change, the economy and social value...
Witness the death of Blackberry
I don't know if Blackberry 10 (the Z10 phone with the BB10 operating system) is going to be any good. I hope it is, for the sake of all my friends and clients who's IT departments force them to use Blackberry phones. The problem is, I just don't think the company has...
When will they learn that we live in an age of transparency?
This is a bit of a nerdy blog post. Or as we say in the UK, I am being an anorack. But I'll declare that I am a fan of Elon Musk, of Tesla, and a media skeptic (all will become clear). I also believe that we are living in an age of transparency, and not enough people...
Do you think this is the end for the High Street?
We don’t. Yes, another big UK retailer, Republic, bit the dust today. It’s been an incredibly tough few years for the High Street, with retailers having to negotiate through the challenges of out-of-town retail parks, online competition and the deepest recession in...
Are you a creator or a perfecter?
Seth Godin gets it spot on (as he normally does) with this insight from his blog last year. The question for you is simple: are you a creator, or are you in the business of perfecting what has been created? It might sound as if both are equally important, interesting...
Are you a creator or a perfecter?
Seth Godin gets it spot on (as he normally does) with this insight from his blog last year. The question for you is simple: are you a creator, or are you in the business of perfecting what has been created? It might sound as if both are equally important, interesting...
We’ve been suckered! “there is no real difference between work and play – it’s all living” says Richard Branson
Richard Branson recently said "there is no real difference between work and play – it’s all living" How profoundly true this statement is. I spent yesterday speaking at the excellent Business Leaders Group and the concept of where we work and how we work was a strong...
Tomorrow's Retail – using data to help customers (not scare them)
Our UK Strategic Insights team has recently released a report on "Tomorrow's Retail" - and it's now available for you to download. It's filled with fantastic insights - like this one... What if a retailer could anticipate what a customer needs before they even realise...
Tomorrow’s Retail – using data to help customers (not scare them)
Our UK Strategic Insights team has recently released a report on "Tomorrow's Retail" - and it's now available for you to download. It's filled with fantastic insights - like this one... What if a retailer could anticipate what a customer needs before they even realise...
Tomorrow’s Retail – using data to help customers (not scare them)
What if a retailer could anticipate what a customer needs before they even realise it themselves? US store Target, famously got into hot water when it used analytics to predict when customers were pregnant in order to benefit from their upswing in spending and sent...