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Emerging markets professionals are at the vanguard of the future of professional work 7 Aug 2013 | 04:42 am
A very interesting global survey title The Professional Revolution has just been released by Thomson Reuters (Disclosure: I long ago worked for its predecessor Thomson Financial as Global Director – C...
The future of business education will be centered on contextual learning 6 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
Earlier this year I gave the opening keynote at the Thought Leadership Forum on The Virtual University, which examined the future of business education. The event organizers, the Centre for Accountin...
Study: Global comparisons of news consumption and shifting channels 22 Jul 2013 | 05:47 pm
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford has just published the very interesting 110 page Digital News Report 2013, which draws on an extensive survey of news cons...
The growing demand for ‘organic workplaces’: Hubs and work spaces that are good for us 18 Jul 2013 | 05:46 pm
This evening I went to an event at Hub Sydney. I’m a big fan of the global Hub network of co-working environments, am an ‘Ambassador for Awesome‘ for Hub Sydney, and have visited a number of Hubs arou...
The democratization of creativity: the most important aspect is greater human expression 17 Jul 2013 | 05:03 pm
When I was recently in Stockholm my friend Magnus Linkvist introduced me to Einar Bodström of House of Radon, a young and innovative production company that is exploring the possibilities of online vi...
Carving out the middle: how we must respond to the dangers of the polarization of work 15 Jul 2013 | 05:47 pm
One of the consistent themes in my Future of Work framework is the polarization of work and value. In a number of the keynotes and workshops I’ve run recently, including at the Richmond Financial Ser...
The rise of crowdsourcing in Malaysia 11 Jul 2013 | 05:25 pm
I was recently in Kuala Lumpur to do twin keynotes at the National Crowdsourcing Conference organized by Digital Malaysia, and meet with government officials to discuss how Malaysia can best tap the p...
Personalization and the future of retail: Knowing your taste better than you know yourself 9 Jul 2013 | 06:04 pm
One of my recent series of interviews on the future on the Morning Show was on the future of retail and shopping. Click on the image to see a video of the segment: One of the examples I gave is of T...
The immense role of national and ethnic diaspora in driving global innovation 8 Jul 2013 | 05:13 am
For over a decade I have been working with various facets of the idea of Global Innovation Networks: connections around the world that facilitate new endeavors. Innovation always stems from diverse c...
How soaring expectations of beauty are shaping technology and society 4 Jul 2013 | 06:11 pm
I recently travelled to Provence in the hills above Nice to give the keynote at the annual EuroCIO conference. I used my framework for the future of the CIO to point to the macro drivers of change in...
