Delivering Happiness… a path to profits, passion and purpose
I'm very excited! I've just received two advanced copies of Tony Hsieh's (CEO of Zappos) new book called Delivering Happiness. And best news of all I'm giving away a free copy to a member of our blog community. All you need to do is tell me a story of a customer...
Social Media Platforms are taking the virtual out of reality
Often those that don't, a few that have, and one or two that do, criticize social media platforms (Twitter, FaceBook, et al) of being a conceptual experience robbing the depth of authenticity from face-to-face relationships. In their opinion relationships on social...
Just a Thought: Do conferences have to be so dreadfully dull?
This is the second in the "Just a Thought" series by Dr Graeme Codrington for the TomorrowToday ezine. (Read his first contribution on Getting Rid of Your IT Department here). Conferences seem to have taken a backward step during the economic downturn. Boring...
Sir Ken Robinson – 30 minutes of inspiration about learning and the future of education
I am a huge fan of Sir Ken Robinson. He has spoken twice at the TED conferences - once in 2006, and again earlier this year. His two talks follow on from each other, as he talks so brilliantly about education and how we can help the next generation access their...
Synthetic Life created – this changes everything
I have been predicting it for some time, and today it was announced! J. Craig Venter runs the company that first sequenced the human genome. Now, his team has created what they're calling synthetic life. They've actually created an entirely synthetic genome, built...
PodCast Update – Nine Business reasons to go Green
We’ve just added a new PodCast to the TomorrowToday feed. Graeme Codrington discusses Nine Business Reasons to go Green for your organisation. Not only are we impacted by an environment that requires us to change our behaviour, but we have a younger workforce entering...
Personal Details – Are we opening up or locking down?
I've come accross a couple of interesting articles in the last week. They've not all focussed exclusively on 'privacy', but they've mentioned it somewhere. What has me interested is that they're not all saying the same thing. In fact they're saying some very different...
Book review: Orbiting the Giant Hairball
I am becoming increasingly interested in company structures that are trying to use quantum mechanics (as opposed to Newtonian science) as the basis of their design. The simplest versions of these are linked to the concepts of cloud computing and virtual organisations....
Content farms – the future of journalism
Newspapers and magazines are going through a tough time. Not because of the recession, but because they don't seem to know what to do with the Internet and the rise of free content. Some are choosing to try and sell their content. Other are trying to find ways to...
Right Brain people will be a-head in the future
Ted.com is one of the best internet resources I've ever come across for short, powerful and interesting inputs on a broad cross-section of topics that loosely fall into the categories of Technology, Environment and Design (TED). Most inputs have a future focus, and...
PodCast Update – When Retirement Stops
We’ve just added a new PodCast to the TomorrowToday feed. Graeme Codrington explores what happens when old is no longer considered old and people change the retirement paradigm completely. There are implications across the board. If you’d like to listen to this audio...
Crowdsourcing comes to Hollywood
I was recently introduced to Peter Vesterbacka, who heads up an innovative company called Wreckamovie. The concept is simple: use social media concepts to facilitate the crowdsourcing of movie making. Or (without the web 2.0 jargon): use the Internet to get thousands...
Square – accept credit card payments via your cellphone
You heard about it here first. My colleague, Dean van Leeuwen wrote about this trend at the beginning of March (read his post on the Future of Money). Something he just mentioned in that post was launched officially today (and picked up by Fast Company magazine - they...
LinkedIn shakes it up
With 60 million profiles, LinkedIn is shaking things up. A lot. The recruitment industry is certainly feeling it, but LinkedIn is more than just about finding employment, as the article 'How LinkedIn will fire up your career' from Fortune suggests: Facebook is for...
Surviving the recovery – fast times require speed and adaptability
I enjoy reading the weekly insights put together in Strategy + Business (the ezine of Booz & Co). Their latest edition carries an excellent article entitled, "Fast Track to Recovery" by Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan. They argue that organizations will have to move...
To be square or to be Foursquare that is the question.
One of the more intriguing social media platforms and new loyalty programme shaping paradigms is Foursquare. The concept is simple: Download the Foursquare app to any smart phone and "check in" to let friends know where you are. By combining the GPS or geo-location...
PodCast Update – The change driver of Technology from After Shock
We’ve just added a new PodCast to the TomorrowToday feed. We took an exert of Barrie Bramley, speaking at a Business Breakfast, talking about Technology, from TomorrowToday's latest presentation called After Shock. If you’d like to listen to this audio track please...
Geoengineering – part of the solution for a warming planet?
I am convinced by the science: our planet is warming up. This appears to be part of a natural cycle that has flowed through the planet's history. But it also seems very clear to me that human activity on the planet - especially in relation to generating and consuming...
Remembrance: C.K. Prahalad one of the wisest and influential management strategist of our time
I first became familiar with the works of C.K. Prahalad when I was studying my MBA in the early 2000's. He greatly influenced my thinking and I made numerous quotes and references to his work in my thesis on network alliances. For me C.K. Prahalad was a genius who...
Partnering with customers
Partnering with customers is a trend that I'm a huge advocate of. The new world of work demands that companies actively engage with and enter into mutually beneficial relationships with customers. Companies that create and encourage channels allowing customers and...