10 Truths about the Future
In my keynotes, I often talk about how the rate of change -- whether with business models, product lifecycles, skills and knowledge -- is speeding up. With such change…
Innovation · Megatrends
High velocity retail innovation
Back in October 2005, I identified the major trends that would sweep the retail and consumer products industries, and some of the key innovation methods that…
Consumer & Food · Faster - The Acceleration Economy
The Future of Risk: Achieving Skills Agility in the High Velocity Economy
Back to work, and I'm off to San Antonio, Texas, to keynote the Property and Casualty Insurers Association of America Joint Underwriting/Marketing conference. I'll be…
Agility · Insurance
Minds of their own
One of my regular columns focused this month on the issue of "hyperconnectivity." Quite simply, we're entering an era in which almost everything is becoming plugged into…
Innovation · Megatrends
Corporate banking at high velocity
I spoke last week at a senior level banking conference; in attendance were C and VP level executives from such major banks as JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Harris NA…
Financial Services & Banking · Innovation
Fast to innovate. Fast to build. Fast to market.
Though I spend my time travelling the world with my innovation message, it's nice to find some recognition at home. I've been living in Ontario, Canada, for the last 22…
Faster - The Acceleration Economy · Megatrends
What's happening with our workforce?
Last week, there was a common theme to my keynotes for the University of Oklahoma and for the national Blue Cross Blue Shield Association: "what's happening with our…
Human Capital · Megatrends
Innovation and the future of education
What's happening with our worforce? That is increasingly the focus of many of my recent talks. Yesterday I spoke to the staff and faculty of the University of Oklahoma…
Education · Innovation
What happens when light stops?
Well, for one thing, when light stops, velocity picks up! A few weeks ago, I keynoted a crowd of 3,000 telecom professionals in Florida. One of the comments I made was…
Keynotes & Events · Media & Technology
Are you watching the major transformations, or just the piddly stuff?
I spoke in November in Iowa to a group of energy cooperatives, providing some different insight into the future of energy supply in terms of not what's happening today…
Healthcare & Pharma · Megatrends
High velocity customers!
I gave the opening keynote this week, in Orlando, for BICSI, a telecommunications trade group; these are folks primarily involved in the implementation of sophisticated…
Faster - The Acceleration Economy · Keynotes & Events
"Flexibility defining careers, workplace"
An article on my perspectives on the future of the career has run in a wide variety of papers across the country. The full article can be found here in Adobe Acrobat…
Human Capital · Media & Press