The Australian Chambers Business Congress on 1-2 June is shaping up to be one of the top business conferences of the year in Australia, with an awesome speaker line-up. The Congress is organized by the Australian Chamber Alliance, a consortium of all the major business chambers across Australia. Speakers include Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Porter, Steve […]
The opportunity for television is to become a truly participative media. Over the last year or so my views on the future of TV have significantly shifted, to be far more optimistic for the media. Last year I gave the opening keynote at the Regional TV Marketing conference, and subsequently wrote how The Future of […]
Tomorrow morning I give the breakfast keynote at Think Business 2011, making it my third keynote this week. For those attending the breakfast, here are my slides, which go through and flesh out our recent Success in a Connected World framework and also touch on related issues such as personal branding. The usual disclaimers apply: […]
I’m in Beijing next week to do the keynote at the AICD conference on How Technology is Transforming Business and guest lecture at Beijing Foreign Studies University on The End of Newspapers and Future of News. While I’m in Beijing I’m keen to catch up with any local folks on Twitter/ Weibo/ social media and […]
I am always trying to get better at using visuals to support my keynotes and presentations. I use many videos, and we have created quite a few Flash animations that I embed into Powerpoint to make them more dynamic. I have been aware of Prezi as a dynamic presentation tool for some time now, though […]
Our latest visual framework is The Transformation of Business. Many of my keynotes and client workshops at the moment are to high-level business audiences such as boards of directors and top executive teams who need to understand the essence of how the business landscape is changing and the implications. While you can never capture the […]
When I’m in Beijing next week I’ll be doing a guest lecture at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China’s premier international studies university, where many of the country’s foreign ministers have studied. I will be speaking on The end of newspapers and the future of news. While many are familiar with my Newspaper Extinction Timeline, that […]
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has recently released some very interesting research on Navigating News Online, digging into how people navigate to news sites and what takes them away. Among the interesting insights was data on how news website traffic comes from Google and Facebook, shown below.
A little while ago I co-authored a White Paper for SAP titled Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability, focused on large professional services organisations. Later today I’m running a strategy workshop for a large technology vendor with a significant professional services arm. In the course of preparing for the session I looked […]
I wrote up some brief notes from the Gallery of Modern Art’s recent panel discussion on the future of the 21st century. Radio National’s Future Tense program subsequently broadcast the discussion and provided a full transcript for those who would like to see more of the content. One of the many interesting topics of discussion […]
