The future rarely arrives as one thing. That is where many leadership teams are still fooling themselves. They ask for the AI strategy, the climate strategy, the cyber strategy, the talent strategy, the data strategy, the innovation strategy. Nice clean boxes. Easy to allocate. Easy to turn into board slides. Easy to hide behind. The […]
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Innovation has a PR problem. We’ve wrapped it in so much mythology — the garage startup, the eureka moment, the visionary founder — that we’ve lost sight of where most real innovation actually comes from. Not inspiration. Not ambition. Not even competition. Necessity. Ukraine is the proof. In spring 2026, Ukraine is not just surviving
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I had the pleasure of speaking at the #skillnetirelenand conference this week. “Leaning Into Disruption for Future Innovation” as the topic. I was hugely impressed. Best of breed I was there when Skillnet was borne in 1999. Twenty five years later we have a best of breed training programme (number 1 in the world) of
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When you study, talk, and write about future trends, you obviously cannot escape AI. The question is, where is this all going? I have been pondering this for a while. With no answers. Until I saw a post by Gerd Leonard about Sadhguru. The book pendulum I have read many books on this topic. Actually
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I spoke at #DESS24 yesterday. The topics were marketing, technology, exponential and platforms. Obviously, they go hand in hand. I started with the questions we ask all our clients, with a focus on clock speed. Followed by the meta trends and the books, with an emphasis on “Exponential organisations” as the playbook. I covered super-exponential,
Setting up the scenario prompts for clients always cheers me up. In front of your eyes, science fiction becomes science fact, and some of them have a serious impact on your business. The one that really triggered me today is connecting 16 organoid mini-brains into a biological computer. Now, combine that with AI and next-generation
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I had the pleasure of giving a keynote address for the Landbell group in Rome and doing a Q&A session with their talent academy. I talked about books, AI, data, context, future trends, framing, LEGO, chess, technology abstraction, circularity, innovation, and strategy. I had a ball. I am happy to share the PowerPoint. Drop me
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Delivered a key note in Rome for a client about future trends, strategy, innovation, organisational design and technology. Very interesting. As always technology abstraction, digital transformation, AI and citizen development were topics of debate. I am happy to share my presentation. Leave a comment or send me a note. Rome Never been to Rome, so
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What does innovation mean for SMEs? If you believe “Killing giants”, SMEs are ready, able, capable and willing to take on the giants. The author of “entrepreneur revolution” beliefs that our time is NOW. Research We are doing some research into what innovation means to SMEs. It has only question, and you guessed it “What
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