Entries by Ross Dawson

The future of project management and leading organizations to become agile

This morning I gave the opening keynote at the Project Management Institute NZ Annual Conference on The Future of Project Management. My keynote covered the fundamental trends shaping business, government, and projects, the changing nature of work and organizations, the new capabilities required by project leaders, and the nature of leadership for the future. You […]

Launch of Governance for Transformation Framework

In a rapidly changing world, it is a truism that every organization must be transforming itself for the future. Yet that is deeply challenging, not least because every organization, especially any with external investors, is framed by governance, oversight structures to ensure value to stakeholders. Governance is essential, yet governance must not block transformation or […]

Seven Ways Boards Can Support and Drive Innovation

I wrote an article for the most recent issue of Company Director magazine on seven ways boards can support and drive innovation. The slightly edited final version is on the Company Director website. The full original text is below. How Boards Can Support and Drive Innovation One sixth of Australian businesses with a turnover of […]

The potential beyond the threshold of space tourism: hypersonic travel, solar system colonization and more

I was just interviewed on ABC TV about the news that Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is going public through a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia, to be the first publicly listed space tourism company. A video of the interview is below. In the billionaire space race, featuring most prominently Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue […]

Why a future of efficient capital markets matters and how we’ll get there

I recently gave a keynote in Dubai at The World in the Future conference, organised by the Ministry of Finance as part of the Dubai government’s Innovation Month. The event timeframe was 30 years in the future, showing an appetite for foresight very unusual from governments. The event kickoff brought together three featured speakers – […]