Today was the first episode of my new live-streaming show, The Virtual Excellence Show (which I haven’t even had time to announce on this blog yet, but if you’d like to follow it please subscribe here!). My guest on the first show was the amazing and colorful Howard Rheingold. When I considered who should be […]
Last week I gave the opening keynote at the International News Media Association Virtual World Congress, on the topic of Reinvention for a Post-Pandemic Future. My keynote was focused on the manifold opportunities for the news industry at this time of exceptional change. However the subtext was the critical role of news in supporting a […]
Many people and organizations have recently been suddenly thrown into a world of remote work, and are struggling to work out how to do. A few companies have long relied heavily on remote work, or even been completely virtual organizations since they were founded. A number of those companies, in line with their philosophies and […]
I have long believed that organizations are becoming more different from each other and increasingly unique. Social technologies made organizations more different In the first instance this divergence has been fueled over the last dozen years by organizations implementing social technologies to add a differentiated layer of ad-hoc networks to the existing commoditized layer of […]
Over the last years there has been plenty of media coverage of delivery robots and delivery drones, but the actual number of fully automated deliveries has been highly limited. In a world of social distancing and restaurant and shop closures around the world, local deliveries have moved from what was already a substantial industry to […]
Scenario planning, the discipline of building multiple relevant stories of the future to support effective decision-making, always a powerful tool for foresight, is even more relevant as uncertainty increases, making it an extremely important and valuable tool amidst our current pandemic. I have been applying scenario planning for well over 20 years, sometimes in its […]
Civic technology, often called CivicTech, is usually defined as technologies to enable constructive engagement between citizens and government. However I frame it more broadly as technologies that help us create a better society. I think the distinction is important, as even in these times of enlarged government roles, I believe the future does not lie […]
We are living amidst a frightening global pandemic that we are working hard to contain and move past as quickly as possible. So what comes on the other side of this phase? We need to be thoughtful about what we call it. I have compiled a list below of some of the front-runner phrases, with […]
One of the biggest differences between now and a few months ago is that scheduled flights have almost ceased, from over 8 trillion kilometres travelled in 2019 (an average of over 1000 km per man, woman and child on the planet). Recently I wrote 9 insights into the future of air travel in a post-coronavirus […]
A couple of days I was a guest on ABC’s The Drum program. One of the questions I was asked was the degree to which we will continue to work from home after the pandemic. For my response watch the brief video below, or see the full program online, this segment starts at 45:00. Below […]
