"IT has value. No doubt. What is uncertain is how that value is realized. In a new article by Joe McKendrick on a ZDNET Blog (Why IT can't seem to deliver measur..."
"Thought leadership is the most misunderstood element of marketing. Most organizations do it, but because its returns are not easily measured, it is given short ..."
"It has been speculated recently that technology has significantly contributed to the restructuring of labor markets. Today’s Computerworld ran the following art..."
"I have said it many times here. Sustainability requires a new view of economics. The following quote brings home a stark contrast between the business world in ..."
"Read Write Web ran an article (Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years) which include the following summary of prognostications. My comm..."
"Writer Mike Holderness reinforced my call for a new economic language in the current New Scientist. Read his article here. His pull quote: “An alternative econ..."
"The fall of the dollar may well reshape the world economic landscape. Those who see only one future with a powerful dollar may be surprised when the world’s app..."
"Well, praise for cost-cutting probably isn’t misplaced, but it may not be understood all that well. When a company cuts costs to drive efficiency in operations,..."
"The cloud is intriguing. I’ve already lived through the private cloud. 30 years ago when timesharing companies let me run manufacturing and sales remotely. It w..."
"For years, earthquake rockers and other forms of seismic counter measures have ensured that buildings around the ring of fire survive everything from tremors to..."
"Yet another call is being made to adjust the lens through which we see our world. In the 19 September 2009 Economist Finance and economics column the venerable ..."
" BusinessWeeks James C. Cooper discusses global rebalancing in the current issue of BusinessWeek (28 Sept, 2009). What he doesn’t say in his commentary (read it..."
" I like the idea of UnManagement as outlined in this article. Organizations need to look at emergent models that allow them to adapt organically. The more organ..."
"Forecasts and Vision Forecasts are strategic business tools that help organizations navigate the future, but they also help create plausible and reasoned materi..."
"Acting on the Future A good forecast is one that forces an organization to accept possibilities it might not otherwise consider, and to create plans more resili..."
"I want to let my readers know that after this posting, Murray Franklyn did come and repair the new concrete and fix a couple of items in my home, some of which ..."
"Hearing the Future If trends and extrapolations are our only inputs for future scenarios, how do we go from the process of gathering evidence, to the process of..."
"Understanding Trends The late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould was confounded that equine evolution became the standard illustration of evolution in bio..."
"At minimum, the SEC, Treasury, etc. should require that organizations use scenario planning as a means of at least testing for unintended consequences of new of..."
"Information Technology and Innovation Foundation President Rob Atkinson’s heart is the in the right place. Increase productivity, re-establish leisure time. Whe..."
"For many workers, the idea of increasing performance means working more hours, or seeing jobs eliminated as technology replaces people. Many technology jobs shi..."
"Listening to the Future Listening to the future begins with an understanding of what is important: focal question to solve for and a set of uncertainties and im..."
"I was asked last year to right an article for a magazine that didn’t seem to survive the recession. I will publish it in sections over the next several days. Fo..."
"As I was driving today listening to the BBC, I heard a report which I had not considered before: the information about a person’s risk for disease may well brin..."
"As the economist reported in their August 22nd edition (Hugo Chavez seeks to catch them young), Hugo Chavez is reforming education in Venezuela to deepen the id..."
"I remember years ago having a security discussion with my colleague Steve Hunt about why the reactive response wasn’t sufficient to combat hackers on the Net. I..."
"and who it has meet… http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Listening-to-the-Future/43438181625?ref=nf Dale with Listening to the Future at Disneyland Please ..."
"I thought it might be useful to share how I have started to management my work life across multiple computers. For any of you with multiple computers you know t..."
"The latest Wordle on the blog: Thank you for reading. If you are new to the blog, perhaps this cloud will inspire you to dig deeper. Thanks again. Dan "
"Sherri Gulczynski Burns, pictured below, editor of American Way (the American Airlines in-seat magazine) wrote in the October 1st issue, about the need to becom..."
"When the financial crisis started. When housing prices collapsed and banks failed, we knew something was wrong. Most consumers of goods and services don’t under..."
"As further evidence that this recession may lead to a rethinking of economic measures, another, albeit minor, measure of health has proven as frail as the job m..."
"A July 25 article in the Economist (Co-operation in the ether) demonstrates how technology can facilitate dialog across boundaries couched in politics and space..."
"It seems to be the week for calls for evidence. An editorial in the 25 July 2009 (Falling out of love with market myths by Terence Kealy) explores the issues wi..."
"The August issue of Scientific American features the Mysteries of the Neandertals. As interesting as that may be, I found the lack of connective tissue in their..."
