SYNOPSIS USED FOR MACQUARIE INTERNAL COMMUNICATION. YOU MUST BE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT. The world is changing faster than ever. Do you ever wonder what that means to our business, your career and life? In a time of exponential change, the Silicon Valley mentality promises a utopia in which virtual borders are melting away […]
Following last month’s release of ‘The Future is Now‘ on paperback/kindle, i’m pleased to announce a third ‘hybrid book‘ format. It’s not for sale, but is available to people expressing serious interest in working with me. You’ll find 16 videos built into the inside front cover. They feature a roster of world-class experts being interviewed […]
The Future is Now is a set of signposts to a world gripped by accelerated change. Technological innovation continues to raise the standard of living for billions of people around the world. But it’s not without its social, cultural and political consequences – and we are on the cusp of inevitable change to our businesses, […]
On 24th November, Bridge Partnership Hong Kong invited me to participate at their ‘Next Generation Leadership Asia’ event. The idea being to provide some current and near Future trends for business leaders in the region. Whilst engaged on another client assignment that day, I suggested producing a short video instead which could be displayed over […]
As with all new trends, the ‘Factory of the Future’ is represented by different themes for different people. Read the industry press and you’ll see terms like ‘Industry 4.0’ and ‘Smart Manufacturing’ bandied about like Jelly Beans. I think it describes how new technologies are creating change in manufacturing on a par with how water […]
Before exploring the skills we’ll need in the next 10-20 years, it’s helpful to look at a few jobs that didn’t even exist just a decade ago in 2006. We didn’t have ‘Social Media Managers’ as the major platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – either didn’t exist or hadn’t broken free of a few college […]
Servitization adds a service or solution-based offer to traditional product offering. It can be lucrative. But where do you start? The Manufacturer is presenting a new webinar at 10.30am on 28 September to help manufacturers get to grips with the opportunities available through servitization. The webinar presenters, James Woudhuysen (visiting Professor at London South Bank University) and Matt O’Neill (Independent Futurist), have […]
What used to be the supply chain is increasingly the ‘supply network’. This is the inevitable result of the challenges facing today’s global supply chains. As organisations seek to grow and expand into new markets, they have to look at whether existing supply chains are capable of servicing these objectives. Supply chains have never been […]
The UN predicts global population is set to rise by 2.5 billion by 2050. Effectively, that’s adding a population the size of China and India combined. It will require us to double our food production output. Throw in the fact that 1 in 9 current inhabitants of our planet are ‘chronically hungry’ right now, and we’ve […]
There’s a lot of talk in marketing circles about the potential for ‘Augmented Reality’ (AR). Unlike its more totally immersive cousin, Virtual Reality, AR creates new layers of experience over what we already see in the real world. Wikipedia defines AR as ‘a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements […]
