Beyond Zoom fatigue: next generation 3D and holographic calls
I was recently interviewed on the Sunrise breakfast TV program on the next phase of video calling, which will shift to far more immersive technologies.
Entries by Ross Dawson
The future of customer experience: Spotify (and most products) need a serendipity dial
Driven by frustration with the Spotify algorithm I have just posted an Idea Submission on the Spotify community website titled Introduce a serendipity dial. What I wrote is copied below, click on the link and vote it up if you like it!
The next year and beyond: implications of shifting from pandemic to endemic COVID
We’ve come a long way this year. Currently over 50% of Americans, close to 60% of Western Europeans, and 24% of the global population have been fully vaccinated against COVID. Every day around one in 200 people in the world receives a vaccination. Of course this does not portend the end of COVID. This is […]
In the future what will we look back at in horror about our world today?
An article in Sydney Morning Herald today, What we do now that will be unfathomable by 2050, looks at what we might not be able to imagine about our lives today. The piece quotes me on cars and parking:
Improvisational theater and the free flow of ideas
I recently was interviewed by Christina Gerakiteys for SingularityU Australia’s podcast series Inspire for Impact in a very enjoyable conversation. You can listen to the half hour episode here: Zen, Improvisation and Collaborative Value. The premise of the podcast is asking for 5 points of inspiration for impact in my life. I chose to speak […]
If you help bring the networks to life… you will create success for yourself
My book Living Networks was dedicated to “all those wonderful people in the world who are bringing the networks to life with their energy and passion”. It is of course now abundantly clear that networks are the underlying structure of business and society. Seminal social networks (in their pre-digital sense) pioneer Ron Burt proposed the […]
The coming rise of virtual professional service firms in a COVID world
I have been thinking and writing about the rise of virtual professional service firms for over two decades, since my first book. Professional services are, by definition, delivered by experienced professionals. While there are significant reasons for teams of professionals creating value for clients to be co-located, they very often are not, even in traditional […]
Summary of the new US Intelligence Global Trends report on 2040
The US National Intelligence Council has been using scenario methdologies to look into the future since the 1990s. Today they released the 7th edition of their Global Trends report, examining the risks and challenges of the next 20 years. Below I have selected some visual highlights from the 156 page report that distill some of […]
Innovation Strategy Cheat Sheet: a succinct guide to setting your innovation course
On Friday I spoke at the Distinguished Leadership & Innovation Conference organized by the Caribbean’s premier business school Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business. I delivered the opening keynote on Shaping the Future of Business and also a workshop on Building and Implementing an Innovation Strategy. Since it was a brief workshop to cover […]
