I was recently interviewed for an article How we will learn to love big data for ICAS that explores the capabilities required to convert the extraordinary potential of data profusion into true business value. The article was written for an accounting audience, however the issues are relevant to all professionals. Indeed every company needs to […]
This paper was originally published in Academic Leadership Series: Improving Innovation and Collaboration Between Industry and Business Schools, based on a keynote by Ross Dawson at CA ANZ Thought Leadership Forum. Introduction What is the value of academic–business collaboration? The current landscape suggests that there is much potential value that is not being realised, which […]
I recently gave a keynote on Business in the Age of AI at Oracle CloudWorld. After my keynote I was interviewed about some of the key messages in my keynote. Here is one of the short videos created. Below is a transcript of my comments in the video.
I have been a professional speaker for over 18 years, alongside the various entrepreneurial endeavors that have kept me busy over the last couple of decades. It is a great privilege. Speaking is a truly wonderful way to make a living. I get to travel all around the world, having done paid speaking engagements in […]
A few weeks ago I gave the keynote at the Asian Forum on Enterprise for Society in Manila, Philippines. The conference began as Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility in 2002, this year celebrating the anniversaries of the convenors, 50 years for Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and 60 years for Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation […]
I recently ran a small project for the technology division of a major financial institution that is planning its workforce requirements over the next 3-5 years. They recognized that there are substantial uncertainties to their planning, including how financial services will be delivered, the types of technologies that will be used, the specific skills that […]
This morning I am giving a keynote at Oracle CloudWorld Sydney on Business in the Age of AI. Below are the slides to my keynote. As always, my slides are designed to provide visual support for my presentation, not to be useful on their own, however may be of interest even to those who didn’t […]
Napier Collyns has long been an eminence grise of the world of foresight, not publicly visible but immensely influential in his ideas and connections, especially through his role as co-founder of Global Business Network and his seminal work as part of the original team at Shell in the 1970s that created modern scenario planning. In […]
Yesterday morning I was interviewed on the Today show on the implications of an Uber driverless car killing a pedestrian in Phoenix, Arizona. The segment is below. The big picture It is truly tragic that 1.3 million people are killed every year by automobile accidents (heavily weighted to developing countries, putting into context the already […]
My company Advanced Human Technologies launched the web publication FutureofSex.net in 2011, seeing it develop into one of the most prominent publications globally in the space today. At the time I wrote about the reasons for launching the publication, including simply that it is a very important topic for us all to explore, given the […]
