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Deep shift – 7 ways the world (and healthcare) is changing
In the current climate, it’s hard enough to know what will happen tomorrow, let alone in 10 years time. But by looking at clues – patterns, innovations, and turning points – can help us separate what’s probable from what’s possible. This is exactly what the World Economic Forum has done with their “Deep shift. 21 […]
The future of… work
March 24, 2016
“Eighty percent of the jobs we will be doing in the future don’t exist yet.” A popular factoid from Mark Lautmann, but also surprisingly true. There weren’t data scientists, or social media gurus in Richard Scarry books when I was growing up (although someone has started to change that… Welcome to Business Town blog) It’s […]
Uber + GPs + healthcare on demand
January 28, 2016
A few months back my colleague Duncan Arbour and I had a head to head debate on the future of healthcare. Our thought starter / provocative idea was as follows: Technology and demographic forces have transported us to a crossroads. We imagined two alternative realities: one in which medical advances and mobile technology keep chronic […]
Journalists on the future (or demise?) of news media
January 19, 2016
Happy prediction season! One of my favourite times of year and, if you’re familiar with Kevin Kelly’s Futurist’s Dilemma, especially hard to take seriously: “Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.” Predictions usually are wrong, but that doesn’t mean they’re not useful. They tell us a lot about the zeitgeist […]
Out of the box: the future of connected, social television
February 19, 2014
TV is not getting worse; it’s actually getting better and better. It’s nothing to do with the quality of the quality of the programs and given that Channel 5 is still drinking the last of the blood from the Big Brother franchise, I’ll steer clear of discussing the quality if programming. What I mean is […]
Guessing games
January 30, 2013
We can’t predict the future, but it’s never stopped us trying. Sometimes we even get it right (aside from the bit about jet packs…) A while back, I found out about a thread on Quota inviting us to guess where the internet will be in 10 years. It doesn’t seem like a hugely long period of […]
Brands/people/brands
September 21, 2012
Fragment of an idea: I was at a talk called New brands on the block: Insight from emerging markets” from Professor Amitava Chattopadhyay. The way he talked, it seemed almost easier to succeed as a nimble challenger brand than as a cumbersome multinational company. You can adapt, cut costs and specialise more easily than a large organisation, […]
TheAntiSofa 
June 30, 2016
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