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Extreme skills: what happens when knowledge runs out?
I'm in Vancouver, about to deliver a keynote to a global professional services firm, with the working title, "Extreme Skills Specialization: What Comes Next with Global Talent…
Is there hope for manufacturing? You bet!
I'm in Milwaukee today, speaking at a private group of manufacturers from across the country, who work within a particular industry. The theme, to a broad degree, is the future of…
Computational analytics is another new plastic!
At my keynote to the US Association of Actuaries this week, and for a keynote to LOMA last week (an insurance association conference), I played a series of maps that showed the…
Transitioning the global economy
There are a zillion fast, zippy cool trends out there. And then, there are the big, sweeping, massive transformative trends that change entire economies. I just finished writing…
Who's hot? Actuaries are hot!
I just came back from delivering the opening keynote for the annual meeting of the US Association of Actuaries. This crowd is the risk assessment side of the US life insurance…
Keynote Case Study: Toshiba — Mobile Technology Was Rewriting Business Models
Toshiba Australia invited me to open its annual technology conference in Sydney. The focus was mobile technology and business disruption. In 2008, the smartphone era was still…
Text message polling - on stage with instant interactivity and feedback
Over the last several months, I've been incorporating some live text message polling into my onstage presentations. Yesterday, at an insurance industry conference, I put up a…
After flat? Rethink strategies and go post-flat!
As some economies continue to experience rounds of volatility, there are still plenty trying to figure out what to do next. And there are a many who are focused on the theme of…
Financial industry innovation - change the game!
Here's something to think about: we are going to see $12 to $18 trillion in intergenerational wealth transfer in the next 12 years in North America. (US GDP is $12 trillion). By…
Branding, marketing, and manufacturing 2.0
From a variety of keynotes through the last few weeks, here's what we've got to deal with. The consumer of today is: time challenged attention starved jumpy & fast with product…
Seven Things I'd Do Right now
There were two pretty heavy-duty keynotes I did for companies in the financial sector last week. The second one involved a group of several hundred executives responsible for…
A new era of "social wealth management?" Innovating banking at high speed!
I'm about to head out the door to keynote a leadership team, business analysts and IT staff for a leading multinational bank. The theme of my luncheon talk is, of course…
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