Mai 16, 2013
I am currently preparing a number of keynotes for senior business audiences over coming weeks. In preliminary conversations with one group I encountered a very common and deeply misleading view of how business is changing today.
We engaged in discussions on “economic structural change”, that were in fact only about changes in industry composition. The mindset was to consider the changes in relative sizes of industries in the economy, such as manufacturing getting smaller...
Mai 15, 2013
Last week, as part of the ongoing weekly future series on the Morning Show, I spoke about the future of travel and tourism.
Click on the image below to watch a video of the segment.
Mai 14, 2013
On Saturday I was interviewed on SBS World News about the ATM heist that netted $45 million from 40,000 withdrawals over 26 countries. The video of the TV news segment (start at 09:05) is available online until 19 May.
It was an...
Mai 2, 2013
I am extremely happy that we have finally relaunched the website for Advanced Human Technologies Group.

Over the last couple of years we have been repositioning our activities so...
April 20, 2013
The Hub global movement was founded in London in 2005, and is a very rapidly growing network of so far 30 Hub communities co-working spaces established around the world and over 5000 members.
I first heard of the Hub soon after it was established, but was first directly exposed to the network when I ran a workshop on Crowdsourcing for...
April 15, 2013
In 2011 I wrote about The continuing devaluation of LinkedIn connections.
When I first wrote the article I incorrectly thought there wasn’t a way to message people who had invited you to connect without first accepting the invitation. Commenters on my post as well as LinkedIn’s local PR company let me know that you could in fact do that...
März 27, 2013
As part of the recent Tomorrow-Ready CIO event series run by CIO Magazine and IBM, I was interviewed on the messages I shared in my keynote and the supporting Future of the CIO Framework. The brief video, available on CIO Magazine, is below.
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März 26, 2013
The rise of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) has been at the forefront of the news over the last months, with issues emerging that range from the remote use of military force to domestic privacy.
However there are many very positive applications of drones. Matternet, spawned from a Singularity University program, envisages creating a network of drones to address developing world...
März 25, 2013
The discussion is heating up around the forthcoming Google Glass augmented reality glasses and what will almost surely be a wave of similar devices from other companies.

Much of the conversation focuses on the ability of Google Glass to...
März 21, 2013
This morning we completed the five-city Tomorrow-Ready CIO event series, run by CIO magazine and sponsored by IBM.
My keynote across the five locations was on the Future of the CIO, using a Future of the CIO framework I recently created. I hope to write a number of posts in the next little while on some of the more important ideas covered...
