Over recent months, I’ve worked on a project for a client, Epicor, exploring how SME manufacturing could evolve over the next 10 years. The video and A1 poster look at impacts on: Sales and Marketing Project Management Operations and Production Management Service Management Finance Product Management Human Resources Purchasing Take a look at the short […]
SYNOPSIS USED FOR MACQUARIE INTERNAL COMMUNICATION. YOU MUST BE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT. The world is changing faster than ever. Do you ever wonder what that means to our business, your career and life? In a time of exponential change, the Silicon Valley mentality promises a utopia in which virtual borders are melting away […]
Following last month’s release of ‘The Future is Now‘ on paperback/kindle, i’m pleased to announce a third ‘hybrid book‘ format. It’s not for sale, but is available to people expressing serious interest in working with me. You’ll find 16 videos built into the inside front cover. They feature a roster of world-class experts being interviewed […]
The Future is Now is a set of signposts to a world gripped by accelerated change. Technological innovation continues to raise the standard of living for billions of people around the world. But it’s not without its social, cultural and political consequences – and we are on the cusp of inevitable change to our businesses, […]
On 24th November, Bridge Partnership Hong Kong invited me to participate at their ‘Next Generation Leadership Asia’ event. The idea being to provide some current and near Future trends for business leaders in the region. Whilst engaged on another client assignment that day, I suggested producing a short video instead which could be displayed over […]
As with all new trends, the ‘Factory of the Future’ is represented by different themes for different people. Read the industry press and you’ll see terms like ‘Industry 4.0’ and ‘Smart Manufacturing’ bandied about like Jelly Beans. I think it describes how new technologies are creating change in manufacturing on a par with how water […]
Artificial Intelligence, commonly referred to as ‘AI’ is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. Whilst an increasingly familiar term, its roots lie with Alan Turing. He led the team which famously cracked the ‘Enigma’ code machine used by Nazis during World War 2 to pass secret communications. In 1950, he created what has […]
Manufacturing > Services ‘There is no such thing as service industries. There are only industries whose service components are greater or less than those of other industries. Everybody is in services’, Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review, 1972 Traditionally, many manufacturers see themselves as ‘widget producers’, with profits coming from either selling large quantities or fewer, […]
Before exploring the skills we’ll need in the next 10-20 years, it’s helpful to look at a few jobs that didn’t even exist just a decade ago in 2006. We didn’t have ‘Social Media Managers’ as the major platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – either didn’t exist or hadn’t broken free of a few college […]
The Future of Work is a multi-faceted subject. One that’s ripe for multiple books, not just a few short articles. I’d like to tackle the topic here from just a couple of angles. First, the ways in which people are working. Second, the ways in which automation and robotics will augment and sometimes replace people […]
