I have never been impressed by Gartner but I must admit they are changing. A couple of years ago I realized they started to use scenario planning as a tool for understanding and communicating the analysis. Then a couple of weeks ago I came across a decent discussion about Digital Natives. And now through Future [...]
Posts under ‘Future’
Future Scanner – A promising future oriented digg
I got a mail yesterday promoting a new site called Future Scanner. It happens now and then that people finding my blog also want to use it to promote new things. As reader of this blog notice I am a bit skeptical to go somebody else’s errands. This time it took me some minutes testing [...]
Does foresight renders the future irrelevant?
For the last year or so most of my involvements in foresight activities in organizations seems to have different results than before. More often than not they are putting the focus back to fundamental issues about internal organizational issues. In some sense the results tell me: “Don’t fiddle around asking questions about the future! Focus [...]
Google trends and the state of the Western World
Inspired by this post in Google Blogoscoped (found via 43 Folders) and the statements that people are predictable I got reminded of the power of Google Trends. A service that let anyone look into the gathered statistics from probably the single largest information hub in the world. When the service was announced I sat for [...]
Are we living in a simulation?
Interesting tone in a news program discussing something that used to be completely weird (to other than philosophers). Nick Bostrom, even if I don’t always agree with your position, I admit that you have succeeded in putting important and interesting things and thought pattern up in the air. PS. I’m still fighting with my internal [...]
Forecasting and Fermi problems
The other day a friend unexpectedly referred to Fermi problems (attributed to the famous physicist Enrico Fermi). I am the one who once (in ancient times) studied mathematics and physics and he is a marketing /advertising guy so I was a bit surprised. When realizing in what way he used the notion of Fermi problems [...]
Illusion of organizational control
The other day I started to read “Emergence” by my new favorite author Steven Johnson. Since I was very interested in complexity and emergence from a philosophy perspective first in the 80:s and then again in the 90:s it is a bit funny to revisit an area which seems to slowly picking up speed. As [...]
Turning innovations to business – make the analysis first!
The other day I wrote a post about one possible obstacle to be innovative. Today I will follow up with a post discussing the difficulty of turning technical innovations into business. Since the mid 90:s I have met many people trying to build businesses based on their technical innovations. In most cases they have been [...]
The case for innovation outside R&D labs
Through the blog Tomorrow’s Trends i came across Scott Berkun’s blog and the interesting post Why research labs fail at innovation. It turns out that Scott have released a book on the subject “The Myths of Innovation” which I haven’t read. In the post he structures his findings this way: [Generating ideas is] certainly hard [...]
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt’s blogging irritates media
The last couple of days have been very interesting from the perspective of the political power of blogging. Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister since last October, have recently after some time of blog silence picked up blogging again. Now he blogs in Swedish and started to use the blog for telling people of his [...]
