I was recently interviewed for an interesting article in The Guardian Brand human: why efficient automation will not always be best for business. The main thrust of the article was about whether companies would choose to hire humans rather than use machines to win customers and improve perception of their brand. It is an interesting […]
Liz Alexander of Leading Thought has recently published an interesting free ebook titled How to Use a Futurist, which compiles examples of how 24 futurists have created value for clients. This was my contribution to the ebook (5MB pdf):
Last night I was interviewed on ABC News24 about the rise of ‘retro-tech’. The story was sparked by the re-release this week of the 17-year old Nokia 3310, one of the best-loved original feature phones, racking up sales of 126 million through its life. You can see the interview below.
ABC recently published a very nice compilation of perspectives of the year ahead titled Do you want the good news or the bad news?, giving readers a choice of whether to read ‘Exciting’ or ‘Scary’ perspectives. Their interview with me on mind-machine interfaces was published under the ‘Exciting’ section:
Earlier this week I ran a scenario planning workshop for the board and management meeting of a major Central European company, where we explored the value of scenario planning for the conglomerate. Scenario planning for macro-strategy Most people are familiar with scenario planning as a macro-strategy tool, used by organizations such as Shell, the CIA, […]
Last week I gave the opening keynote at the Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand’s Thought Leadership Forum, the fifth consecutive year I have done the keynote for this excellent event series. My keynote was on The Potential of Business-Academic Collaboration, offering a big-picture view of the possibilities for value creation between university business faculties and […]
I was recently interviewed by Nikolay Malyarov of digital newspaper aggregator PressReader for their industry magazine The Insider. The transcribed interview appears as an extended article Platforms are the Future of Media, which goes into depth on some of the issues I see in the future of media. Below are a few brief excerpts, but […]
Many of the interviews I have been doing at the beginning of this year have focused on the future of jobs and work, it seems to be a topic that resonates strongly at the moment. One of the interviews was on ABC News 24, as below.
A group of top economists has created an Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for 17 countries, using media reporting and economic forecasts to show how much uncertainty there is economic policy. The Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is currently the highest it has been since the beginning of the period analyzed starting at the end of […]
The New York Post has just published an article titled Prepare for a world without work, based on an interview with me. Below are some excerpts from the article delve into what I describe as the “post-work economy”, with some further comemnts: Driverless cars are set to make millions of truckers and taxi drivers redundant […]
