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Back in the 1990s I became enamoured of Bill Gross’s IdeaLab, which was spinning off new web companies initially housed in its own support ecosystem. I loved that it generated and developed its own projects rather than looking outside for ideas. Since then I’ve closely followed what I’ve thought of as “parallel entrepreneurship”, in contrast
I recently participated in a panel interview on SkyNews of “some of the brightest minds in business technology”, including futurist Mark Pesce, commentator Brad Howarth, and myself. It’s just come out on the web and having now been able to watch it I think it turned out to be a very interesting discussion. To see
Continue reading The 6 capabilities that drive future business value from Staggeringly Enormous Data
This morning I gave the opening keynote at the Virtual Universities: Impact on Accounting Education Thought Leadership forum in Adelaide, organized by the Centre of Accounting, Governance and Sustainability at University of South Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia. The audience was an invitation-only group of the most senior accounting academics and industry
This year BBC is focusing on the future under the theme What If? and has just launched its What If? Visions of the Future competition. Image source: BBC News/ Glenn Hatton
I was in Sydney over New Year (nowhere better to celebrate it!) before heading off for holidays, and was invited onto the Today national breakfast program to talk about some of the themes from my 2013 and Beyond Appearing and Disappearing framework. Click on the image below to view a video of the segment. One
Continue reading Today show: when will we entrust child care to robots?
I have just had a look at the most popular posts this year on my blog, and very interestingly almost all of the top dozen were written before this year, with perennials like the launches of our Web 2.0 Framework, Social Media Strategy Framework, Trend Map to 2050, and Newspaper Extinction Timeline still attracting consistent
Continue reading 10 most popular blog posts on the living networks of 2012
In my book Living Networks I wrote about how the networks in which we live are coming to life, making us all part of what we can quite accurately think of as a global brain. I wrote an extended introduction to the book that went into this concept in depth. However this was not included
Continue reading The global brain is like a child’s brain – let’s nurture it
Last week I was involved in two events for cloud-based contact centre application company IPScape, facilitating a media luncheon and hosting a customer event where I did the keynote and moderated a panel of experts. An article in Computerworld titled Companies ‘still grappling’ with basics of customer service: IPscape reviewed some of the content at
Continue reading The imperative of designing and building agility in customer service
In my presentation at yesterday’s media launch of ANZ’s Banking on Australia program, I spoke about new ways of making payments using biometrics. An article in today’s Australian Financial Review reports: “Biometric security” involves using fingerprints, voice records or eye scans to access secure systems instead of number-based passwords, which are much easier to steal
Continue reading The ultimate in convenient banking: make payments by thinking
My recently launched Future of Work framework provides a highly summarized overview of the future of work. Over coming months I will delve into specific aspects of the framework. One of the most important issues is divergence in labor productivity, mentioned as the fourth point under Labor Productivity in the Economic Structure section. Across industries
Continue reading How divergence in labor productivity is shaping the future of work
On Friday I was interviewed on the current affairs program Today Tonight about the future of fast food. Click on the image to see a video of the segment. Perhaps the dominant trend in society today is increased expectations. Those expectations apply across all domains, but absolutely in the immediacy of our everyday lives. As
Continue reading The future of fast food: faster, more convenient, healthier, more luxurious
Last Friday I was interviewed on ABC’s News Exchange program about ebooks and their impact. Click on the image to view the video of the program. The ebook segment is around 13:30 – 17:15. We covered a lot of territory in the interview, ranging across topics including why ebooks are rising so rapidly to the
Continue reading The enormous opportunity for writers and readers in an ebook world
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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 Getting Results From Crowds, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, and Implementing Enterprise 2.0. (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.
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Future of Media Report 2007
Future of Media Report 2006
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Future of the Media Lifecycle
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SAP White Paper: Service Delivery Innovation
White Paper: The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services
CNET/ University of Virginia White Paper: How Technology Purchasing Decisions Are Really Made
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