The Rise of the Quester Intrapreneur
Quester intrapreneur, n. 1 A person who works inside major corporations or organizations to develop and promote practical solutions to social, ethical, operational or environmental challenges where progress is currently stalled by market and business failures. 2 A...
Are we witnessing the death of innovation and the end of growth?
As disruptive forces go, the end of economic growth, would have a tsunami impact on businesses, organisations and countries. We tend to think of economic growth as normal, something we've lived with forever and we expect its continued benefit. Downturns are seen as...
Are we witnessing the death of innovation and the end of growth?
As disruptive forces go, the end of economic growth, would have a tsunami impact on businesses, organisations and countries. We tend to think of economic growth as normal, something we've lived with forever and we expect its continued benefit. Downturns are seen as...
Lessons in Leadership and Competitive Advantage
What if, in a changing world efficiency and effectiveness are no longer the bastions of competitive advantage? What if, what modern organisations need is more hare and less tortoise? As the CEO of industrial giant GE, Jeff Immelt says, "Ten or twenty years ago, what...
The Power of Impossible (Video)
Today's competitive rules are different from previous periods. Strategies that focus on reducing costs and building efficiencies will be less effective than those which are based on offering products and services in more innovative ways. Established companies are...
Welcome to 2029
Futurist, Graeme Codrington, put this video together with an insurance client, Sanlam. It's a look at some key issues we can expect to be dealing with in the world of 2029. Contact us if you would like to book Graeme, or any of our team for your upcoming event....
Welcome to 2029
Futurist, Graeme Codrington, put this video together with an insurance client, Sanlam. It's a look at some key issues we can expect to be dealing with in the world of 2029. Contact us if you would like to book Graeme, or any of our team for your upcoming event....
Tomorrow’s Jobs Today: Coming, Ready, or Not!!
In 15 years, when today’s children enter the workforce they will be applying for, and accepting, jobs that don’t exist today. Fortune magazine and The Futurist magazine have put out articles highlighting this reality. 11 Really Cool Jobs That Don’t Exist Today, But...
Tomorrow’s Jobs Today: Coming, Ready, or Not!!
In 15 years, when today’s children enter the workforce they will be applying for, and accepting, jobs that don’t exist today. Fortune magazine and The Futurist magazine have put out articles highlighting this reality. 11 Really Cool Jobs That Don’t Exist Today, But...
Websites to make you smarter
Inc magazine just published a really excellent list of 30 websites to make you remarkably smarter. We often talk to our audiences about "switching on the radar" and making sure that you lift your eyes beyond the next horizon. These websites will help you do just that....
Orthodoxies are your biggest enemies in disruptive times
Mark Twain once said “It's not the things you know that get you into trouble, it's the things you think you know for sure that just ain't so”. Those are orthodoxies. Orthodoxies are patterns of thinking and behaviour that lock you in. ‘This is the way things...
How you can get your teams to work differently and see into the future
Ask new questions to new people Companies often don’t realise their research is stuck in a rut. They run the same focus groups and ask the same questions of the same people year after year. Broaden your horizons and ask new questions to new groups of people inside and...
Reflections on Deloitte 2016 Global Millennial Survey
Since 2013 Deloitte has conducted an annual global survey looking at the status of Millennials in the workplace. These surveys can be viewed and downloaded: 2013 Global Millennial Survey 2014 Global Millennial Survey 2015 Global Millennial Survey The survey for 2016...
TEDx Talk on the Future of Leadership in the 21st Century
TomorrowToday Global's founding partner and Chief Exploration Officer: Dean van Leeuwen, had the privilege of being invited to talk at TEDxUNic at the end of 2015 on the topic: The Future is... Dean chose to speak on the power of the leaders' quest taking ideas and...
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Digitizing Kids
[Transcript] If you are the parent of a five, six, seven, eight year old child you're probably spending quite a few minutes a day, hours a week, reading with them. Sitting down making sure that you read to them, and listening to them read to you. Isn't it great to...
Digitizing Kids
[Transcript] If you are the parent of a five, six, seven, eight year old child you're probably spending quite a few minutes a day, hours a week, reading with them. Sitting down making sure that you read to them, and listening to them read to you. Isn't it great to...
The Future of Banking: Blood in the Water
Every single institution and profession is under attack from the disruptive forces that are reshaping the world in a manner that is as relentless as it is unstoppable. The change frontiers are both ‘out there’– be that new frontiers in technology, massive...
It Won’t Happen To Us – Learning from Failure: 2 case studies
From the 1955 Fortune 500 list, only 71 companies still have their doors open for business. Given the status and entrenched success that goes with being listed in the Fortune 500, that is an alarming attrition rate. Big companies fail. Successful big companies fail....
What will smartphones do in 2018 that they aren’t doing in 2016?
At TomorrowToday Global, we don’t normally get involved in consumer trends or short-term predictions, especially about technology. We’re perfectly happy to wait for the next iPhone or Android update to be released and then do an assessment of its specifications. Our...