A brief overview of our team's view of Institutional Change, one part of our TIDES model of the five disruptive forces shaping our world right now: This video of Graeme Codrington was recorded by our good friends at Your Business Channel as part of their...
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. The TomorrowToday App is your personalised live feed of insights and articles from the expert futurists and business strategists at TomorrowToday. It is a great tool for leaders to help them understand the disruptive forces shaping the future of our business....
The Most Profound Tool For Growing Your Human Capital
Most businesses, organizations and institutions today recognize that necessity and benefit of harnessing their human capital. Due to the fact that the world has changed so much and because we are in a constant state of change, managers have to find ways to maximise...
The twin challenge that could sink your boat
In TomorrowToday we have had the privilege to have been involved with several profession service firms internationally – both in the accounting and legal spheres. Such institutions are always quick to inform you that they are different – different from ‘the corporate...
The Ashes debacle: Maybe Australia should have done their homework!
Australian cricket is in crisis and it is a situation that gift-wraps several important lessons for any executive team. Of course we are aware of the ‘homeworkgate’ episode with former coach, Mickey Arthur. Against the backdrop of poor results, Arthur had invited the...
Things People Can Still Do Better Than Computers
Over the last hundred years, we've learnt the hard way that modern technologies both improve our world and destroy our jobs. Today it is computers (in the form of smart devices), the internet and social media that are both revolutionising how we live and transforming...
Video: Technology replacing professionals in 10 years
If you had told a farmer a century ago that he would not need labourers, and would be able to harvest and manage his farm using machines he would have laughed at you. If you had told factory bosses the same thing about sixty years ago, they would have been equally...
What The Trophy Kids Need Most From Their Place Of Work
Last month I wrote an article entitled ‘The Trophy Kids Have Arrived For Work’, which talked about some of the characteristics of Generation Y in the workplace. In that article I also gave some tips on how employers could manage Generation Y most effectively so as to...
The Missing Soul of Leadership: Our Story
"Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other aboutour opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about our lives” wrote Parker Palmer. He went on to say that, “academic culture blesses this practice by insisting that...
The Factory in Your Garage: A review of 3d printing options and implications
A few weeks ago, I bought a 3d printer for use in my home. On the day I installed it, I recorded a video for our team's Signpost's YouTube channel (it's available here or at the bottom of this post). Since then, many people have asked me a lot of questions about it,...
Generation Y – Driving the need for Mobile Maturity
In a recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), titled "PwC's NextGen: A Global Generational Study", they highlighted a number of learnings that organisations can take from the study. Among a number of useful and interesting insights, one of the key learnin gs was...
Bitcoin has the power to disrupt the most powerful institutions
"It is clear that policymakers and those who advise them do not have a satisfactory conceptual framework for dealing with [this] disruptive impact" says Alec Ross the former senior adviser on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and; Jonathan Luff a former...
All that’s wrong with the media today: A ridiculous example
It sounds like something out of one of those cringeworthy, self-written high school plays. But in reality it is a genuine news report from a Fox affiliate TV station in the United States. And although it is a single anecdote, it does shine a spotlight on the mess that...
All that’s wrong with the media today: A ridiculous example
It sounds like something out of one of those cringeworthy, self-written high school plays. But in reality it is a genuine news report from a Fox affiliate TV station in the United States. And although it is a single anecdote, it does shine a spotlight on the mess that...
Why Leadership Development needs to grow a pair!
Developing leaders is big business. Developing leaders has become a victim of its own success in that there is little willingness to change the model that for years has delivered the success. This is incongruent with the message that business needs to overhaul and...
Will you still have a job in 2025? The alarming rate at which jobs are being disrupted
A recent MIT Technology Review reveals an alarming trend. Since the early 2000's and increasingly since the financial crisis of 2008, the levels of employment have decreased even though productivity has increased over the same period. Erik Brynjolfsson And Andrew...
Learning is changing – and businesses will need to change too
There is a pattern to the disruption of industries – change happens slowly, with a few early-adopters taking a technology and innovating, but not always in the optimum way. Then it happens quickly - and a whole industry can come tumbling down. Take digital music,...
Why do UK retailers continue to report Internet sales separately?
Apologies to regular readers of this blog. This is a repeat of a short rant I had when last year's UK Christmas retail report came out. Now the half year retail results have been released, and we're stuck with the same problem. Marks & Spencer released their retail...
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