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Tweet Technology is only as valuable as value that is perceived by its user. The technology that impacts the future are technologies that people adopt and use. These are the technologies to watch.There are many of these technologies on my list at the moment but I only have time/space to share two with you. 3D [...]

Tweet I am sitting at a conference in Dubai, listening to one of Intel’s top guys in the Middle East talking about technology disruptors that Intel expects to see in the next few years. He is listing five “technology-led tectonic shifts”: Big data becomes useful (my addition: and integrates cloud computing, the internet of things [...]

Tweet Retail is a cut-throat, competitive and unpredictable environment, but it really isn’t any different to all business because generally the rules for success are changing in all industries and markets around the world. I am just using retail as an example of how unpredictable success can be; and how quickly any kind of failure [...]

Tweet Andy Braner, who is the CEO of KIVU, recently wrote a really insightful blog post entitled ‘Tweet, Text or Talk’, which I really enjoyed. He is talking about the effect social media is having on Generation Y in particular (but all generations). What he articulates very clearly is that this new way of talking [...]

Tweet Seth Godin is one of our favourite thinkers and writers. We share many of his worldviews, especially that we are living in a period of transition from the end of the industrial age to the emergence of a connection economy. In one of his most insightful blog entries, Seth recently talked about this in [...]

Tweet As the BRICS summit is currently underway in Durban, where the leading emerging market players of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (representing sub-Saharan Africa) discuss their strategic agenda for the next five years, it might be a good time to refresh your mind as to why we think Africa deserves your attention. [...]

Tweet There are two types of future predictions: one looks to try and predict specific events and technologies, the other attempts to look beyond specifics at the causes of change and the forces that will shape the future. In a sense, the first looks for the milestones while the second attempts to find the general [...]

Tweet I was asked by a US based client to record a few videos for them to get their team thinking about change and success in the digital age we are entering. I thought I’d share one or two of these with you. This one is 9 minutes long and is a simple overview of [...]

Tweet For a while now, our team has been tracking the shale gas issue. We flagged it a few years ago as a weak signal for massive disruptive change. It’s no longer weak: in our minds it is the single biggest force peeking over our horizons right now. The discovery, all around the world, of [...]

Tweet At TomorrowToday whatever we talk about is done so within the context of how the world is changing. There has been much written about this within the TomorrowToday stable.  About how technology, institutional change, demographic change, the economy and social value system change is impacting the world of work. No industry, like no country, [...]