4 Factors to consider about CV’s when hiring Digital Natives
Historically a CV, or resumé, has been a useful tool to understand and to assess the ability of a candidate for a role. Increasingly, however, with Digital Natives this may not be as useful a tool. In the past there was a direct link between a job and the life skills...
Top 5: This week in the Future of Work (7 May 2015)
Each week, I list my top 5 articles, websites, blogs or online resources of the past seven days. These are not always brand new items on the Net - some come from a few months or years back, but they have been an influence on my thinking about the future of work during...
Five workplace trends impacting the future of work in 2015
1. Increasing global integration and growing diversity The outlook for global growth is strong for 2015 and will continue to accelerate for the remaining decade and more. This is due to sustained growth in emerging markets, the falling cost of oil and growing consumer...
Recently in the media
Our team is often quoted in the media, and our work at events and conferences quoted by the press. Here are a few recent examples: Graeme Codrington speaking at ExpoHR in Portugal (use Google Translate if required) Ivor Blumenthal interviews Graeme Codrington about...
The Future of HR, talent management and L&D
People are our most important asset. This sentence is a standard inclusion in almost every corporate annual statement. Many companies say this, but don't deliver on both the promise and potential inherent in their people. The HR team are often to blame - for not...
The Future of HR, talent management and L&D
People are our most important asset. This sentence is a standard inclusion in almost every corporate annual statement. Many companies say this, but don't deliver on both the promise and potential inherent in their people. The HR team are often to blame - for not...
Learning life through the games we play
My son recently asked me about some shares that we have bought as an investment for him and his sister. He asked me why we had bought shares and not just put the money in a bank account. I explained to him about risk and the different options that are available for...
On Leadership: Disruption – Friendly Fire that doesn’t have to kill you
Friendly fire in a military context is often associated with tragic fatalities. However, it can also serve as welcome reinforcements, shift the momentum and win the battle. Disruption is ‘friendly fire’ and will either be the thing that kills you or the catalyst in...
The question every CEO needs to ask HR
There is the well-worn clique that, ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast every day’ but the reality is, it is spot-on. Organisational culture matters. It is within your culture – the way ‘we do things around here’, that your organisational DNA is located. Companies...
What will the future of work look like?
In the future the workforce will be more connected, workers will be virtual, mobile and temporary, they will be global, multi-generational and diverse – older and younger, different sexes, cultures and beliefs working side by side. We know this, it is happening...
When Everything Changes: Succeeding in disruptive times
The world is always changing – it always has been. But every now and again there are moments in history where all the forces of change seem to combine together to produce an era-defining shift. That’s what we study when we study history, even naming these times to...
Disrupting the world of everything
“These devices are only going to get smaller and more powerful” say Om Malik of Fast Company. You can buy a Raspberry Pi with a 700MHz processor and 256 MB of memory for about $25. In 2001, a Mac with 450 MHz and 64MB of RAM cost $1,800.” Apple dominates the personal...
Robot wars – and it’s a good thing
Later this year (5 and 6 June to be precise), the final stage of the world's most important robotics competition takes place in California. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (see details here) will see 11 robots compete for the toughest prize in robotics and robot...
The Quest for Atomic Fusion: A lesson for leaders everywhere
When talking to Steve Cowley one is aware that you are in the presence of a great mind. Steve is one of the world’s leading scientists and is the CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Professor of Physics at Imperial College London and Head of the EURATOM / CCFE...
The Future is Changing: Bill Gates on the Next 15 Years
The world is going to change more in the next 15 years than the last 50 combined. Considering how much the world has changed in the last half century, that's quite a bold claim. Nevertheless, more and more indicators are pointing to this being a reality. And more and...
Five ways that artificial intelligence is influencing your life today
When we think about Artificial Intelligence we see robots and science-fiction where computers take over the world and humanity ends up in subjugation. The reality today is that we have artificial intelligence assisting us in many parts of all of our lives with more...
The Future of Work
The disruptive forces shaping the future workplace and workforce
Life-Logging – A top ten emerging technology for 2015
Steve Mann graduated from MIT in 1994 and began wearing a wireless camera that recorded images of the world, from his Point of View (POV) and displayed them online. The now professor at Toronto University has been campaigning for wearable technology as a human right....
Bringing data to life – Importance of Storytelling and Data
I was invited to work yesterday with one of my favourite partners; the London Business School and present to one of their clients, a large international Telecoms company. The presentation I gave is called Herding Cats and it explores the new world of customer loyalty...
Three Critical Things You Need to Focus On in 2015
Many people and businesses focus on the wrong things. What will your business be measuring in 2015? If your focus is on your competitors, your market share and internal efficiencies you may miss significant changes coming your way. In a time of disruptive change you...