Video live-streaming, characterized by apps such as Periscope, Meerkat and Blab, is an exciting and rapidly growing space, with exceptional relevance to PR and all communications. In our Thought Leader Series on What to Expect in 2016, Trevor Young’s view on 2016 wsa “I’m bullish on video live-streaming”. An earlier article on this publication explained […]
A few days ago I attended the launch event of Reinvent Australia, organized by Annalie Killian of Amplify Festival at PwC’s Sydney offices. It was a very interesting event, digging into the issues of how we can bring together many people’s ideas to create better futures for nations. Graham Kenny, President of Reinvent Australia, described […]
What should we expect for PR in 2016? We asked top industry thought leaders for their thoughts. Three powerful themes emerged from their responses: – Scope and Breadth (Click link for insights) – Science, Data and Analytics (Click link for insights) – Story and Content (Insights below) On story, content, and channels, Michael Brenner of […]
What should we expect in PR and communications in 2016? We asked top thought leaders for their insights. Three powerful themes emerged from their responses: – Scope and Breadth (Click link for insights) – Science, Data and Analytics (Insights below) – Story and Content (Click link for insights) The importance of data and science in […]
We asked global thought leaders in PR and communications what they expect in 2016. Three powerful themes emerged from their responses: – Scope and Breadth (Insights below) – Science, Data and Analytics (Click link for insights) – Story and Content (Click link for insights) The theme of increasing breadth and scope of what PR needs […]
An article in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald, Five business trends set to shape 2016, asked three business “clairvoyants” what innovations small business will see in 2016: Craig Rispin, Jon Tanner, and myself. Here are a couple of the quotes from me: On Immersive Reality: Futurist Ross Dawson, who heads Advanced Human Technologies Group, says the […]
I was recently interviewed for an extended feature on the future of travel, Technologies that will change the way we book, plan and experience travel. Below is a selection of quotes from the article.
As other futurists, I’ve had done quite a few media interviews recently on Back to the Future 2, which was set on October 21, 2015. One of the most interesting broader issues around the film is very simply the degree of interest people have in the film, which captured people’s imaginations about the future, even […]
Last Friday, after delivering the breakfast keynote at CPA Congress in Brisbane (more on that in another post), I ran a half-day workshop at the partner offsite of a national accounting firm network on the theme of Disruption and Innovation in Professional Services. I spent some time giving the partners current perspectives on both disruption […]
Last week I ran a half-day workshop at the annual offsite for executives of a major airline alliance, taking the group from a broad view of macro trends shaping the future, through to the generation of specific actionable ideas to create greater value across the alliance. As part of the workshop we used a framework […]
