Monthly Archives: September 2011

Discussion: Social networks, Google+, Facebook, fragmentation, and interoperability

Ross Dawson, September 27, 2011 at 11:44 am

The video below shows an interview of me on ABC TV that was made over a month ago, though it aired just last week. Here is the full program of The Consumer Quarter, from which this interview is taken. The focus of the segment was to look at the impact of the launch of Google+

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The global polarization of work: what we can do about it

Ross Dawson, September 21, 2011 at 11:51 am

Today I gave the keynote at an invitation-only meeting of senior executives looking at the future of their industry. My role was to bring perspectives on the broader drivers of change in business. One of the central themes of my keynote was the future of work and organizations. There are of course many facets to

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Looking for Outstanding Researcher/ Writer on Crowdsourcing

Ross Dawson, September 15, 2011 at 1:09 pm

We have just posted a job on Odesk for an Outstanding Researcher/ Writer on Crowdsourcing in a freelance role. Below is the job description. If you’re interested please respond on Odesk. We’re very excited about our forthcoming book on how to crowdsource effectively, so if you really understand crowdsourcing, are a good researcher and great

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Why reputation, influence, and attention are becoming central to economies but are not currencies

Ross Dawson, September 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm

This morning I gave the opening keynote for an internal future strategy session at a large insurance company. A group of 40 executives from across the organization, as part of a six month program, are spending two days immersing themselves in thinking about how the structure of the economy could change in the years and

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Creating Darwin’s Future: insights into a unique city

Ross Dawson, September 7, 2011 at 9:34 pm

I recently gave the after-dinner speech at the annual dinner of the Urban Development Institute of Australia in Darwin. I had never been to Darwin before, and I found my brief visit as well as my research preparing for my talk fascinating in getting a feel for the city. In my speech I brought together

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Reconfiguring the world of business around the customer

Ross Dawson, September 5, 2011 at 11:38 pm

The esteemed JP Rangaswami, who was at the very front of creating Enterprise 2.0 at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and is now at Salesforce.com, has just written a compelling post Thinking about the Social Enterprise, in which he distills the essence of social business. You really need to read the entire post to get the flow

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The Internet of things will dwarf the Internet of people

Ross Dawson, September 1, 2011 at 1:44 pm

In 2008 the number of devices connected to the Internet surpassed the number of people connected, and in 2020 there will be 50 billion things connected, 7 times the world’s population, according to Dave Evans of Cisco. The infographic below highlights some of the key features of the Internet of things, including the pace of

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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of AHT Group, which consists of 3 companies: consulting, publishing, and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy firm Future Exploration Network, and events company The Insight Exchange.

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.