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Living in a Borderless World

“The future demands from us something more than a nostalgia for some rose-tinted version of a past that did not really exist in any case. You're about to graduate into a complex and borderless world.” (US Secretary of State, John Kerry). These were Kerry’s words in his commencement speech to this year’s Northeastern University graduates.…

“News from the Future” – When the Algorithms Collaborate

Yesterday I was privileged to be invited to speak at the IABC ‘Future Fit Communications’ event in London. Together we explored three trends set to change the world of corporate communication: - The impact of Artificial Intelligence - The growth of Visual communication - Why ‘Soul’ matters more than ever As a bit of fun…

Why User Generated Content is set to rise!

The concept of user-generated content (UGC) is not new. It first came to the attention of business analysts in the early 2000s, when it became apparent that companies like Facebook were becoming corporate behemoths not by churning out their own content, but by leveraging the value of content created by users. In a sense, Google…

FAO: Business Communicators – How ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ will equalise Performance with Soul!

The concept of shareholder value – extracting wealth from enterprise for the benefit of shareholders – was borne of the industrial revolution. It was a time when natural resources were plentiful, industrial technology created value without costing people, and populations were scarce enough to be a valuable resource in factories. Entrepreneurs got rich, but they…

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