Entries by Ross Dawson
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 […]
How the integrated enterprise shifts us from Big Data to Small and Wide Data
In perusing Gartner’s Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021 it struck me that the most important meta-theme was integration. The last decades of enterprise technology could be viewed as shifting from monolithic – and in large organizations almost inevitably siloed – computing to richly integrated platforms, though that journey is far from complete […]
2021: A year of excitement and positive change
2020 will go down in history, not just as a year of pandemic, but also one of transformation. As we push into 2021, we need to consider our mindset for the year. Many people I speak to are excited about the coming year.
Shifting to work structures that will serve us far better
Cisco recently compiled a thought leadership article Employees choose hybrid: A look into the workforce of the future.
