As a frequent traveller I spend a lot of time not only in airplanes but also in airport lounges. These are of greatly varying quality, some of them extremely basic and some of them luxurious and beautiful. Of all of them my very favorite is the Qantas First Class International lounge in Sydney. I’ve shared […]
If we look at extraordinary world of the future of healthcare, one of the most important developments is predictive analytics based on the profusion of data we are now able to capture and feed into machine learning algorithms. An article in BBC titled The invisible warning signs that predict your future health provides some great […]
When I was in Lisbon, Portugal recently to do the keynote at the Food of the Future conference, I recorded a vlog reflecting about how food is central to our future as humans, and what that means today…. TRANSCRIPT I am here in Lisbon, Portugal where yesterday I gave the opening keynote at the Food […]
In the week before Christmas I was invited onto the Entrepreneurs TV show, in a wrap-up program looking back at the world of entrepreneurship in 2018 and forward to what to expect in 2019. The full program can be seen online (note the content has been geo-restricted and cannot be viewed in all countries). Don’t […]
I recorded this episode of my vlog when I was at the Building Nations Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand to give a keynote on ‘Making the Future Real’. Infrastructure is highly tangible, and those involved in infrastructure tend to be highly grounded. Yet infrastructure decisions have an impact over a longer timeframe than any other […]
Tomorrow I am giving the keynote on Platform Strategy: Creating Exponential Value in Connected Times at the Digital Single Market Cloud Stakeholder Conference in Vienna, Austria. An increasing proportion of my work over the last years has been explicitly centered on platforms and platform strategy, but in many ways it is has been core to […]
I was pleased to discover I am on the cover of the new issue of Venture magazine! The cover feature, titled Transformation Without End, is based on an extended interview with me. It covers many facets of how we should be thinking about the future, but begins on a very important point: “It is intrinsically […]
Just over three years ago we launched our Futurist Influence Rankings and Keynote Speaker Influence Rankings. These both use a simple algorithm to combine measures of online impact including web traffic and social media impact to rank the influence of prominent futurists and keynote speakers. Any rankings of online influence certainly shouldn’t be taken too […]
This morning I gave a keynote at the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools Annual Conference, which brings together the Deans and leaders of the top business schools in the region. The other sessions in the morning were presented by McKinsey & Co and PwC, so I wanted to present perspectives that would be complementary to […]
In a short segment I recorded in Bangkok at the Oracle Impact Summit recently, I discuss the six facets of strategy for emerging technologies with some simple visual illustrations. You can read more about the six facets of strategy for emerging technologies here. The transcript is below. To subscribe to my future vlog episodes click […]
