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Trends & Megatrends · 2007
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The future of the legal profession
Some weeks back, I spent a full day with about 40 senior lawyers with a major government agency, with the main focus both on the rapidity of change of legal skills, as well as…
Trends and big transformative changes. Example: health care
The view of the future by most is often short term oriented. What happens when you think about long term transformations? In my keynotes, I often put into perspective the big…
The new mourning .....
In the last year, I have been the keynote speaker for three different conferences of funeral and crematorium directors. As with any industry, I've focused on the wide variety of…
Innovation and the new workforce
I'm keynoting the annual IHRIM (International Human Resource Information Management) professional association in about an hour here in Houston, TX; I'll have an audience of about…
Banking and furniture industries -- coping at high velocity!
It's been a busy week, with keynotes for the American Community Bankers Association and the National Home Furnishings Association. This gave me an audience of several hundred…
10 Long Term Trends of Real Substance
The level of hype right now with "social networking" and technology is getting a bit out of hand. It's a little bit like 1999 all over again! While what's happening right now is…
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, there's a…
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 organizations should…
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 speaking to…
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…
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, Wells…
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 years, a…
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