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Disruption & Acceleration · 2014
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25 Trends for 2025 (Can you imagine how different your future might be ten years from now?)
On January 3, 2025, Jim wrote a post that looks at the accuracy - and lack thereof - of the 25 predictions he made in this post in 2014 about the year 2025. Read it here. At this…
Speed and agility in the retail sector
The rate of change in the retail sector is going from 'fast to furious' if you pardon the cliche. I'll be outlining this issue when I speak to a small group of folks in the retail…
Nomadic workers and the future of careers
Here's a video clip from a recent keynote -- during the Q&A, I was asked by one member of the audience about what happens to careers in a world in which 'the future belongs to…
Are you suffering from 'Aggressive Indecision?'
Here's one from the vaults -- from a keynote for SAP way back in 2003! Lots of organizations still suffering from this dread disease 11 years later! C'mon folks - make a decision!…
10 Questions to Assess Your Future Readiness!
Are you in the right frame of mind to cope with the future? Are you really ready? Here's a few questions you can challenge yourself with: Are your prepared for hyper-innovation…
Video: "A blistering page of innovation..."
Back in June, I was invited to open The BigM, a major manufacturing conference held in Detroit; I followed President Obama's Treasury Secretary, Penny Pritzker on stage. There…
Trend : The impact of crowdfunding / crowdsourcing on R&D
GE is running an article, A Fresh Perspective from Many Minds, that explores the impact of crowdfunding on the world of R&D. I've long been pointing out that such efforts are…
Trend: Could the Energy Industry be "MP3'd?"
If anything, the year 2015 is going to be the year of 'continuous business model disruption.' It's happening everywhere. The CEO of a major US energy company hired me to do a…
Trend: ".....they recognise me and run a customised commercial on an in-store TV...."
Some months back, the folks at Retail NewsAgent in the UK sent me a series of questions asking about the future of retail. They were busy preparing for their 125th anniversary…
Wall Street Journal Production: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast!
Back at the end of March, I worked on a custom video project with the Wall Street Journal Custom Digital Studios Team on behalf of CapitolOne; it involved a small, invitation only…
Trend: The Disappearance of Cash!
CNBC interviewed me a few weeks ago on the question of "trends that could shake up the financial industry." Over the years, I've done thousands of such interviews. They just ran…
Whoah! Dude! What Happened?
Ask yourself this question: do you work in an organization that just simply doesn't get it? Who is oblivious, blind, completely unaware of just how much business model change is…
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