Entries by Ross Dawson

Directing Innovation: Course for company directors to keep ahead of disruption

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 […]

New framework: The six elements of Platform Strategy

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 […]

Updating the Futurist Influence Rankings and Keynote Speaker Influence Rankings algorithms

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 […]