Understanding the Social Agenda: what every leader needs to know about tomorrow
The Social Agenda will define the future of your company. It is that big, it is that important and it is that unavoidable! Let me explain what is the social agenda and why it is that important. The social agenda is made up of two aspects, namely, 'social media' and...
Africa’s Chance to Leapfrog the West
A few weeks ago, a Ghanaian entrepreneur wrote an excellent article in the Harvard Business Review blogs about Africa's potential. You can read the full article here, or an extract below: Africa's Chance to Leapfrog the West HBR Blog Network, February 10, 2012 by...
Cloud service predictions – coming fast, coming soon
Recently, Graeme Codrington was asked to comment on how cloud computing services are changing the way we work. The journalist used their conversation to generate a number of press releases which can be seen below. Our overall message is quite simple: cloud computing...
Hinduism Provides Business Model for Forward Thinking Leaders
What you don't see online with HBR's article The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention is my favourite part of the article in the print version. The online version provides a forward looking business model framework designed to "manage the present, selectively...
Show me the science: the weird world of climate change
We live in a world where even straight forward facts are disputed, distorted and used in fantastical ways by those with political agendas. The 24 hour news cycle seems capable of turning sound bites into facts, and then running with stories that don't actually match...
The Future World of Education
Education is perhaps not central to TomorrowToday’s focus on the future world of work - but tomorrow’s businesses are surely reliant on today’s students! An article by Larry Summers in the New York Times caught my eye recently. Summers served as US Secretary of the...
New approaches to journalism in a digital, connected, social media world
There are many industries battling to come to terms with the new digital, connected, social media world we live in. Books, music, retail stores and agents of all kind spring to mind. And so do journalists. It's not just that magazines and newspapers are under threat...
Reimagining Capitalism – as Principled, Patient, and Truly Social
Polly LaBarre has written an excellent and thought-provoking piece on the Harvard Business Review blog (thanks to Pete Laburn for alerting me to this). It is becoming increasingly clear that unfettered, free market capitalism is a discredited system. Communism was...
Reimagining Capitalism – as Principled, Patient, and Truly Social
Polly LaBarre has written an excellent and thought-provoking piece on the Harvard Business Review blog (thanks to Pete Laburn for alerting me to this). It is becoming increasingly clear that unfettered, free market capitalism is a discredited system. Communism was...
One billion Chinese mobile phones
Today, 3 March 2012, marks the moment that the one billionth Chinese mobile phone contract is taken out. India are not far behind, with just about 900 million contracts. Together, these two countries account for one quarter of all mobile phone contracts. The USA comes...
The Revolution Starts Where? A presentation for the meetings industry
A few weeks ago, Graeme Codrington ran a workshop at EMEC2012, the conference for Meetings Professionals International (MPI) in Budapest. He was asked to speak on technologies that are going to shape the meetings industry in the next few years. He took an interesting...
The Revolution Starts Where? A presentation for the meetings industry
A few weeks ago, Graeme Codrington ran a workshop at EMEC2012, the conference for Meetings Professionals International (MPI) in Budapest. He was asked to speak on technologies that are going to shape the meetings industry in the next few years. He took an interesting...
Manchester and London showcases: ‘Leadership Under Pressure’ – 26 and 27 March 2012
Leadership Under Pressure Your are invited to an inspiring event with five international speakers from the world of sport and business, focusing on the necessary mindsets needed for doing business in tomorrow’s world. The events will take place on the evenings of 26...
Capitalising on the future face of consumer demographics
My previous blog identifies three trends driving the future face of consumers: Older, Female, Urban - It is important that business leaders understand the impact of these three disruptive forces. We have identified three critical steps to serving the needs of these...
Watch a Fascinating Short Film On How Cities Will Drive Global Change in the Future
Cities are changing rapidly and they are going to have a greater influence on businesses in the future than even countries. Business leaders need to be understanding now what the implications are and what they need to be doing to capitalise on this emerging trend....
Three major trends reshaping the face of tomorrow’s consumer
Following a study of customers attitudes and behaviours, CitiBank declared that 75% of their customers had changed as a result of the economic turbulence of the past few years. The report’s finding was correct in one sense; the economic uncertainty is influencing...
Future workplace: O2’s flexible working pilot ahead of Olympics
Businesses have not changed much over the past 100 years, the structures of work - including the office itself have remained stubbornly old fashioned, even though the nature of work has changed significantly. Most people today work in what is called the knowledge...
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...
Nine trends defining the Future World of Work
Increasing global integration: Due mainly to explosive growth in many emerging markets, the world will experience massive economic growth over the next thirty or so years. It is predicted that by 2050, global real purchasing power will quadruple. As BRIC and N11...
Nine trends defining the future world of work
Increasing global integration: Due mainly to explosive growth in many emerging markets, the world will experience massive economic growth over the next thirty or so years. It is predicted that by 2050, global real purchasing power will quadruple. As BRIC and...