Watch 35 Years of the World’s Economy Evolving as a Living Organism
In a world drowning in data, the ability to cleverly and visually capture the essence of information and communicate it in thought-provoking ways is a much needed skill which few leaders have. This is a shame because there are awesome resources which can help them do...
Watch 35 Years of the World’s Economy Evolving as a Living Organism
In a world drowning in data, the ability to cleverly and visually capture the essence of information and communicate it in thought-provoking ways is a much needed skill which few leaders have. This is a shame because there are awesome resources which can help them do...
[Video] Virtual Reality really is here (for real this time)
Virtual Reality has been promised to us before. Back in the 1980s tech geeks were very excited about the possibilities of putting screens onto our faces, and immersing us in artificial worlds. The movie, Tron, took a huge step forward in computer graphics, and we...
The future of lawn mowing
The future of Robotic lawn mowing has arrived and we are delighted that TomorrowToday Global's co-founder and futurist Dean van Leeuwen has been selected to participate in the Husqvarna Automower Challenge. Over the next six months Dean along with 99 other fortunate...
The Path to Innovation – Do someone else’s job
Innovation, Innovation, Innovation - It's a big word at the moment. If you want innovation you have to give your people space to do different things… to innovate! Some companies give their teams one day in the week to work on things that are not part of their...
16 Skills for 21st Century Education
In March 2015 the World Economic Forum held a meeting in Dubai with a focus on education. They released a paper that identified 16 critical skills for the 21st century. The skills were clustered into three areas with learning processes focusing on building...
Don’t wait for a meteor to wipe you out, Re/Evolve and adapt now.
A recent study shows that the dinosaurs were already in decline 50 million years before the meteor strike that finally wiped them out. "We were not expecting this result," says Dr Manabu Sakamoto, a palaeontologist from the University of Reading, who led the research....
Banking: The Real and Present Danger
The future of banking is problematic. Certainly the future landscape when it comes to banking is one that we know will not resemble that already travelled. In most industries this is true but for financial institutions this reality seems to be one that whilst...
Disruptive Demographics and the Future of the World Population Until 2060
Disruptive forces are growing in complexity, velocity and impact. One of the slower moving forces is demographics and this force is now a growing tsunami which will crash on the shores of both developed and developing economies. No region or country will be immune to...
How to track future trends (video)
I am often asked after a presentation on future trends how an individual working in a company can keep track of all the changes coming our way at the moment. This is what our team at TomorrowToday Global do for a living, and we have full-time support, so it's...
Design Disruptors: How Design Became the New Business Language
Over the past five years there has been a rise in the number of billion dollar start-up companies (often referred to as Unicorns - for example Uber is now valued at $51 billion and five years ago it was no where). What is interesting about these companies is that they...
Design Disruptors: How Design Became the New Business Language
Over the past five years there has been a rise in the number of billion dollar start-up companies (often referred to as Unicorns - for example Uber is now valued at $51 billion and five years ago it was no where). What is interesting about these companies is that they...
Advice from Graeme’s visit to Google HQ
It's not every day that your colleague gets to experience Google's HQ. Graeme is there with a client of ours (who is a major world partner with Google) as part of the Senior Executive Development programme. He got to run our Tomorrow's World Today workshop in the...
Advice from Graeme’s visit to Google HQ
It's not every day that your colleague gets to experience Google's HQ. Graeme is there with a client of ours (who is a major world partner with Google) as part of the Senior Executive Development programme. He got to run our Tomorrow's World Today workshop in the...
The emergence of Gen Z and why they might be the most important generation ever
You may think you are just beginning to get a handle on Gen Y or the Millennials, but in this fast paced world it's time to start getting ready for Gen Z. Cohorts from the world's youngest generation are entering their formative years and depending on the years used...
The emergence of Gen Z and why they might be the most important generation ever
You may think you are just beginning to get a handle on Gen Y or the Millennials, but in this fast paced world it's time to start getting ready for Gen Z. Cohorts from the world's youngest generation are entering their formative years and depending on the years used...
The Future and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
At the 2016 Davos World Economic Forum, the Fourth Industrial Revolution was coined as the term describing the era we are living in. This Revolution is evolving and transforming at an exponential rate, disrupting every industry in every country. We stand on the brink...
The Need to Stay Futurefit
Rapid progress is usually accompanied by greater instability. The impact of globalisation on our planet has reshaped, redefined and reordered almost everything. What this looks like and more importantly, what it means are avenues of inquiry that are neither simple nor...
Is this the corporate model of the future?
The Rise of the Benefit Corporation Small changes in the corporate code can change the world and on April 13, 2010, Governor Martin O’Malley made history in the US State of Maryland when he passed a law creating a new type of for-profit corporation – the Benefit...
The Future of Computing
Moore's Law is a difficult concept to wrap our heads around. We can see the impact of exponentially rising computing processing power around us but how do we relate to the doubling in power of a microprocessing chip every two years. We understand it, but do we truly...