Are trends ending trends?
I came across the article The End Of Trends: If It's Hot, It's Over by LINTON WEEKS because of the kind tweet from Carol Phillips In the article for npr Linton argues that because of the obsession and focus of trendwatchers the nature of trends is actually changing....
Marketing in the future will be like sex – only the losers will pay for it!
The title of this blog comes from a quote out of Fast Company's excellent article on the future of marketing titled Mayhem on Madison Avenue. As explorers and adventurers in the New World of Work, my colleagues and myself at TomorrowToday are constantly exploring how...
Has technology gone too far?
I am all for technology, please don't get me wrong. I couldn't live without my mobile phone or my Internet connection. I love the fact that I can watch DVD's in bed on my laptop and my favourite is being able to skype my friends in all corners of the globe. But I did...
Generation Mom X
How many Gen X women do you know well into their 30’s who are still completely focused on their careers, some married and some who don’t even have the time to entertain dating as they leave the office after 9pm, 5 days a week. Which Gen X in their right mind at 25 was...
Business must get serious about Mentoring
According to the article "Winning the race for talent in emerging markets" - by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Jay A. Conger (HBR), developing world countries have a large shortage of adequately experienced people from lower to middle management upwards. Often I...
Is AI driving the future of the stock market?
The Artificial Intelligence revolution is taking a new turn. Rather than trying to get machines to emulate people, today's AI researchers are devising a new raft of technologies that are decidedly not modelled on human intelligence. Normally when we think about AI we...
Space Junk – a very real future problem
A growing problem is pollution in space. Not only is the junk itself an issue - even more concerning is that no-one seems to want to clean it up, and no-one is taking responsibility for it. This could have catastropic consequences in our lifetimes. Read about this...
Three key future trends in retail
I was asked to contribute to an article on the future of retail. My task was to think of the three key issues retailers should be thinking about for 3 to 5 years time. Here's what I submitted. But what do you think? TECHNOLOGY: Internet shopping will continue to grow...
25 Trends That Will Change the Way You Do Business
This is a post that my colleague Graeme Codrington @workforcetrends wrote on our sister blog site in 2007. I was searching for some information and found this an interesting read. Even though it was written over three years ago and pre the credit crisis it is amazing...
China is going green
I am very confident in my prediction that China will be considered to be the greenest nation in the world by the end of this decade. Too often, the "middle kingdom" is seen as a smoky dragon, intent on industrial domination at any cost. Yet, it doesn't take much...
China is going green
I am very confident in my prediction that China will be considered to be the greenest nation in the world by the end of this decade. Too often, the "middle kingdom" is seen as a smoky dragon, intent on industrial domination at any cost. Yet, it doesn't take much...
What you might have missed over the holidays
While most people were away on holidays, the TomorrowToday team was busy blogging - throughout the Christmas and New Year holidays, we continued to scan the new world of work for news, reviews and signs of change. We can't help ourselves. When we relax and try and...
For Gen Y, God and work (amongst others) are a choice
The subject of this post doesn't seem, at first glance, to be a very paradigm shifting statement. In fact, it seems quite normal. Take a step back, go and find people in their 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's, and you'll discover that 'normal' has changed. And in the context...
UK’s Bribery Act and taking the moral high ground
This past week, the UK government said that they were putting on hold the introduction of the UK Bribery Act, which would make it illegal for UK companies to offer bribes when dealing with foreign companies. The Act was due to be enacted in the next few weeks, but has...
Book Summary: From Strategy to Execution
I was recently sent a summary of a 2008 book, "From Strategy to Execution: Turning Accelerated Global Change into Opportunity" by Daniel Pantaleo and Nirmal Pal (Springer). It is ridiculously expensive, but you can buy it now from Amazon.co.uk or Kalahari.net. I think...
Book Summary: From Strategy to Execution
I was recently sent a summary of a 2008 book, "From Strategy to Execution: Turning Accelerated Global Change into Opportunity" by Daniel Pantaleo and Nirmal Pal (Springer). It is ridiculously expensive, but you can buy it now from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com or...
The Difference: 2000 & 2010
This post was first published on Pete Laburn's blog in Dec 2010 10 years ago, futurists were saying that ‘In five to ten years 80% percent of of what drives the world will be driven by continuations, 15% of what we have will be driven by cycles and 5% will be driven...
Ideafood’s top 11 marketing trends for 2011
Dan Wallace is the founder of Ideafood, a consultancy that focuses on increasing sales and profitability. I was interested in two things he put yesterday. Firstly, he did a quick online poll of his clients and colleagues about how they plan to spend marketing budgets...
Mobilitate – a great 'better South Africa' web 2.0 initiative
@chazzie001 sent me this link to Mobilitate via Twitter over the weekend. It's a South African initiative aiming to form communities to give feedback to various layers of government in a multitude of categories. Both positive and negative. It's run by a crowd called...
Mobilitate – a great ‘better South Africa’ web 2.0 initiative
@chazzie001 sent me this link to Mobilitate via Twitter over the weekend. It's a South African initiative aiming to form communities to give feedback to various layers of government in a multitude of categories. Both positive and negative. It's run by a crowd called...