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.
My latest vlog was made at the EU Cloud Stakeholder Summit in Vienna, where I gave a keynote on Platform Strategy. In the vlog I discuss the idea of platforms as trust-enabled ecosystems, which I believe is an important frame for how we think strategically about the power of platforms. See here for more on […]
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 – […]
I was recently interviewed for an interesting article in CEO Magazine titled Virtual PAs: Are they the ideal helpers for today’s business elite? The article delves into the emerging range of AI-based virtual assistants such as x.ai and Evie as well as related offerings such as personalized chatbots.
For many years I have been working with company directors on framing and driving innovation in their organizations. From this March I will be applying this experience as Course Director for a new program run by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), titled Directing Innovation. The one-day course is intended for experienced directors and […]
