What are the new words in your industry?

Scenario prompts are a way to develop responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more successful. If you want to talk about scenario prompts for you and your organisation, you can book a free appointment here.

Scenario prompts 30 September 2024

Use the prompts to question things such as relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.

Today’s prompts are regeneration of limbs, autonomy, the top tech buzzwords of 2024, AI CEOS, AI gear shifting, success factors, climate change, brain implants, strategy, and genetically engineered soil microbes.

Stowers scientists uncover a critical component that helps killifish regenerate their fins

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/stowers-scientists-uncover-a-critical-component-that-helps-killifish-regenerate-their-fins-302259978.html

Spontaneous injuries like the loss of a limb or damage to the spinal cord are impossible for humans to repair. Yet, some animals have an extraordinary capacity to regenerate after injury, a response that requires a precise sequence of cellular events.

A Software-Driven Autonomy Stack Is Taking Shape

https://a16z.com/a-software-driven-autonomy-stack-is-taking-shape/

With advancements in AI, in particular, we are starting to observe a decoupling of hardware and software for autonomy use cases across industries like manufacturing, energy, mining, construction, industrial controls, and defense. This is similar to the dynamic we’ve begun to see in robotics, and will lead to powerful new capabilities, applications, and economics.

The Top Tech Buzzwords of 2024, According to Google Trends

https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/innovation/articles/the-top-tech-buzzwords-of-2024/

New words are trend indicators.

AI Can (Mostly) Outperform Human CEOs

https://hbr.org/2024/09/ai-can-mostly-outperform-human-ceos

GPT-4o’s performance as a CEO was remarkable. The LLM consistently outperformed top human participants on nearly every metric. Data quality is crucial.

Japan’s Shimano gives cyclists an easier ride with AI gear shifter

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Japan-s-Shimano-gives-cyclists-an-easier-ride-with-AI-gear-shifter2

The Q’Auto system customizes the tempo and speeds based on the rider’s habits. The AI comes loaded with various bike riding patterns memorized from the test ride data.

Thriving in the Long Run

https://rishad.substack.com/p/thriving-in-the-long-run

Successful individuals and firms tend to have a commonality to their success. They all display a sense of perspective, an ability to be perceptive, a constant hunger to pioneer and a dogged constant persistence.

32 weird ways to fight climate change that just might work

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/32-weird-ways-to-fight-climate-change-that-just-might-work

Geo-engineering, garlic, artificial trees, whale poop, drones, enzymes, paint, insects, algae, mammoths and more.

An Ultrathin Graphene Brain Implant Was Just Tested in a Person

https://www.wired.com/story/an-ultrathin-graphene-brain-implant-was-just-tested-in-a-person/

This morning, surgeons temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain. 

Future of Strategy: The importance of “strategy fundamentals”

https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/opinion/future-of-strategy-the-importance-of-strategy-fundamentals/en-gb/6814

Strategy is about developing an informed opinion on how to win. 

The Tiniest GMOs

https://ambrook.com/research/environment/genetically-engineered-soil-microbes

Companies like Corteva and Bayer are pushing to commercialize — and genetically engineer — soil microbes.

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WHY REINVENT THE WHEEL AND WHY NOT LEARN FROM THE BEST BUSINESS THINKERS? AND WHY NOT USE THAT AS A PLATFORM TO MAKE BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS? ALONE OR AS A TEAM.

Sense making; morality, humanity, leadership and slow flow. A book about the 14 books about the impact and implications of technology on business and humanity.

Ron Immink

I help companies by developing an inspiring and clear future perspective, which creates better business models, higher productivity, more profit and a higher valuation. Best-selling author, speaker, writer.

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