Insights Filter Filter by All Automation Blog Creativity Data E-Commerce Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends Videos close Welcome to the new age of scarcity By Adam Tinworth The age of abundance is over. As supply chains bend and break, and energy prices soar, your business needs to re-engineer its systems to thrive amid scarcity. 2022: the year of rethinking the workplace — and work itself By Adam Tinworth After two years of enforced remote work, the office is changed for good. 2022 has to be the year that we start figuring out how. Culture, Context, and Commerce — the Trinity for Brand Growth revisited in the Age of Web 3.0 By Matthias Schrader The pandemic pushed us into the second era of digital early. Brands with innovative products that resonate with the culture stand to win… Your NEXT holiday reads By Adam Tinworth The Christmas holidays are the perfect time to take a step back, relax and expand your mind with some insightful new reading. Here are the recommendations from the NEXT team. The most useful insights of 2021 By Adam Tinworth We've been writing our Insights blog for over a decade now. Which posts amongst our extensive archive did you find most useful this year? Trends for 2022: Crypto, Web3, VR, and the Metaverse By Matthias Schrader What are the macro and strategic trends in the tech industry? Matthias Schrader shares his thoughts about Benedict Evans' annual presentation. New webs of relationships By Martin Recke This year's trend report from Fjord is all about the relationships that form the fabric of our life. It's time to design new systems. Why high energy prices means no beer By Adam Tinworth If you love beer and sausages, you should be worrying about supply chains. Because the systems that supply our food (and drink) are more complex than you might expect… Defensive design is the future of digital services By Adam Tinworth The digital industry needs to stop believing its own hype. It's no longer an industry of scrappy start-ups; it's the underpinning of our economy, and it's under attack. In conversation with Dr Parag Khanna Dr Parag Khanna sat down with our conference curator Monique van Dusseldorp to follow up on the important points he made regarding the political issue of mass migration and how this will influence the years to come. In conversation with Timandra Harkness David Mattin and Timandra Harkness talk about Big Data, personalisation and their social impact on society. The hidden opportunity in mass migration By Adam Tinworth As our economies re-open post-Covid, climate change means that increased migration is inevitable. Can we win the coming war for talent? A systemic crisis? By Martin Recke Systems have the ability to evolve, and they do so to survive. Applying linear measures to a nonlinear crisis leads to a systemic crisis. Here's what that means for our future. Holoride: making a mobile metaverse By Adam Tinworth The Metaverse will not be the preserve of one company. Some businesses, like Holoride, have been working on it for nearly a decade. Amazon, the pioneer of horizontal and vertical integration By Martin Recke Amazon has pioneered a dual strategy of both horizontal and vertical integration. The next Amazon will need a different approach. COP26: An urgent need for systemic climate thinking By Adam Tinworth Our leaders are struggling to put the climate ahead of political expediency. But climate is a global system — and needs systemic solutions. David Mattin: The Worlds to Come In 2021, everyone is talking about the metaverse. But what does the emergence of these worlds mean for our shared… Benedict Evans: The Great Unbundling Covid brought shock and a lot of broken habits to tech, but mostly, it accelerates everything that was already changing. Parag Khanna: Move – The Impact of Migration As climate change tips towards a full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments destabilize and technology disrupts, we’re also entering a new… Nils Wollny: Turning vehicles into moving theme parks Nils Wollny shares the story of holoride – a spin-out from Audi that focuses on the next generation of in-car… Timandra Harkness: Our Personalised Century If the last century was the Mass Century – mass production, mass marketing, mass media and the rise of mass… COP26: the shape of sustainable business emerges By Adam Tinworth The first agreements from the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow suggest the sustainability carrot of incentives will soon be replaced by the legal stick. Francesca Bria – Building a Sustainable Future Francesca Bria is an innovation economist and digital policy expert, working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, economics and society. Monique van Dusseldorp & David Mattin: Travel with us to the NEXT World Imagine this…It is the near future. A team of 1,000 specially selected people will travel far beyond the solar system… prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 82 next
