Below is Chapter 3 from my book Getting Results From Crowds 2nd Edition, provided as a resource for those looking at using crowdsourcing in their organization or tasked with building an internal business case. The business value of using crowds Through history, companies have been limited in what they can achieve through the scope of […]
Last week I participated in a TV panel discussion on the implications and ethics of neural interfaces, together with the fascinating cyborg artist Neil Harbisson and Oxford University neuroethicist Stephen Rainey. A video of the full program is below.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In 2006 I wrote a popular article Six Facets of the Future of PR, which concluded: We are entering a world in which the flow of information and perceptions will drive much of the value creation in a highly networked global economy. The PR industry should be looking forward to a time of massive prosperity, […]
The latest issue of Business View magazine, themed The Future of Business, includes a concluding article that distills key points from an interview with me. Click on the article image left to expand or read below. We all need to be futurists Change is all around and it’s getting faster. The chairman of think-tank Future […]
By now we have extensive evidence that supporting diversity in society and business is not just the right thing to do, it significantly improves outcomes. In organizations a primary focus of diversity and inclusion initiatives is of course on employees, senior management, and board members. However for many sound reasons it is also critical to […]
I was recently interviewed for an article in CMO.com on major trends for marketers in the mobile space. In the interview I discussed the role and scope of digital assistants, though just a few of my more prosaic comments that relate to marketing were quoted.
