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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…
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 workforce?"…
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 College of…
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 this: when…
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, but in…
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