Building your own healthcare community
Many years ago when I was in community development, some of the cutting edge thinkers were promoting the idea of less professionals and more community involvement in ensuring the growth, development, safety, etc of family. It was a simple but profound concept of...
Newspapers and Blogs. A great conversation
It's not often I get sent a read like this one. And I follow a truck load of 'reads' everyday. Twitter, RSS, e-mail links, etc, etc. There is a lot of stuff that flows through my browser (is anyone else frustrated by Flash and Safari with the new Snow Leopard...
Social Networks and how we communicate
On Friday 2 October 2009, I was interviewed by Rueben Goldberg on Classic FM on his show, The Internet Economy. I'd not met him before we recorded the show. He's a good guy, fairly active on Twitter, and interesting and interested to talk to. Our PR company, SimonSays...
Star Workplace Article
I was published in The Star (South African newspaper) earlier this week on 'diversity'. I've had a few requests from people who wanted to read it, but couldn't find it online. Our PR company (SimonSays Communications) scanned a copy and sent it through today. It's...
VWV Red Plug on Generation 2.0
VWV is an interesting company, that I still don't know enough about. Take a visit to their web site to see some of the 'interesting' I encounter when I meet with their people (wherever they may be). Tomorrow I'm spending the afternoon with them as part of their 'Red...
How will history view Labour's and Brown's legacy?
"It is the fighters and believers who change the world. We've changed the world before and we will change it again." I'm listening to Gordon Brown's conference speech in Brighton, using the wonder of internet streaming. Brown has come out fighting and I have to say a...
Two innovations that will change the world
Two technological innovations are giving me great optimism for future sustainability, reduction in our reliability on fossil fuels (and therefore hopefully less conflict in the middle east) and lower emissions of hothouse gasses. They are the exciting developments of...
Now it gets interesting – music industry, file sharing, Lily Allen and Dan Bull
For a while now, we've been using the music industry as an example of an industry that has not understood the radical shifts taking place in the new world of work. Our new presentation, After Shock, focuses on the five drivers of disruptive change every industry needs...
A Talent Exodus ahead? Surviving the upturn
I am becoming increasingly concerned for my top corporate clients. As we rumble past the bottom of the business cycle and begin the long upwards climb towards recovery, many companies are starting to congratulate themselves. "Well done, we survived a Great Recession"....
UK retirement age stays at 65 (for now)
For a few years now, we have been predicting that the Baby Boomer generation (born after World War II, into the 1950s and 60s) will not retire. In fact, we think we're quite clever when we say they'll more likely re-tyre. We've even developed a presentation on the...
12 ideas that'll have you thinking a little differently
I picked this link up off of Twitter (@tomorrowtodayza if you'd like to follow us). It's from Wired and it's a list of 12 counter-cultural ideas from various 'experts' in a variety of fields. If anything else it'll certainly have you thinking differently for a little...
12 ideas that’ll have you thinking a little differently
I picked this link up off of Twitter (@tomorrowtodayza if you'd like to follow us). It's from Wired and it's a list of 12 counter-cultural ideas from various 'experts' in a variety of fields. If anything else it'll certainly have you thinking differently for a little...
The emergence of Neuromarketing
Traditional market research has it's limitations when one considers the influence of the 'observer' on the 'observed' when attempting to understand people's true thoughts and feelings on the product/brand/service being researched. If we could just get into their heads...
Proof we had a Billboard
At the beginning of September I wrote of the billboard we got through a barter with INM Outdoor. Edward's comment made me smile as he asked what we were doing with 'old technology' being a company that explores an emerging world of possibilities? Other than the fact...
Mom's are big
Every now and then I discover thoughts from marketing experts exploring the value of women between 35-55 and in this example mom's. Their research and observations remind the marketplace of the value of the people who match the criteria of these segments, and how...
Mom’s are big
Every now and then I discover thoughts from marketing experts exploring the value of women between 35-55 and in this example mom's. Their research and observations remind the marketplace of the value of the people who match the criteria of these segments, and how...
Conferences of the future – more online / more connecting
New and ever improving telecommunication technologies have improved how we communicate. From the first telegrams to virtual reality holographic conference rooms, we've come a long way. The key now is not so much the technology (we have the technical ability to put a...
Online video training on saving energy and saving money
For some years now, we've been tracking the issues related to climate change, global warming and the business case for sustainability. We are convinced that these issues are critical for businesses everywhere - not as a nice to have, but for very good business...
The Proof is in the People
We in TomorrowToday have been saying for a long time that the biggest global strategic challenge is what has been called the, 'war for talent' - or what is essentially the attraction and retention of talent. There has been some earlier research on this but a recent...
TomorrowToday is getting a Billboard
TomorrowToday South Africa is getting a Billboard for 2 weeks in September. We did an exchange with INM Outdoor earlier this year. We did some work for them, and they're doing some work for us. So a swap of sorts. We've not had anything like this, and we're looking...