Insights

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  Harnessing innovations: Efosa Ojomo’s framework for saving your business

  By Adam Tinworth

  Understanding which innovations could help grow your business is critical to escaping the coming economic storm. Efosa Ojomo's research points the way forward.

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  Digital divide and new realities

  By NEXT Conference

  Every week David Mattin and Monique van Dusseldorp take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last.

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  Digital health is our future: let’s deliver it safely.

  By Adam Tinworth

  The lockdown has forced rapid adoption of digital health techniques - if it's here to stay, let's do it right.

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  VICE’s Mark Adams on harnessing the power of networks to regenerate brands

  By Adam Tinworth

  VICE's head of innovation believes that if you watch the networks, you can spot the tsunamis of cultural change coming your way and adapt before they hit.

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  New and synthetic media

  By NEXT Conference

  Every week David Mattin and Monique van Dusseldorp take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last.

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  Post-pandemic product design is systems design

  By Martin Recke

  Product design has been systems design for a while, but the current crisis has made it obvious. Times of crisis call for more design, not less.

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  Payal Arora: How do we put the human in the global value chains?

  By Adam Tinworth

  The pandemic has proved we need to rethink the global value chains. But how can we do that until we acknowledge the systemic problems with the old approach?

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  How the big event unbundling changes everything

  By Martin Recke

  Big events are bundles, and these bundles have been unbundling for a while. This changes everything, from the event experience to the business models.

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  The world around us is changing – may it be the mirrorworld or real world.

  By NEXT Conference

  Every week David Mattin and Monique van Dusseldorp take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last.

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  Ben Sauer on the metaphors we need to navigate a crisis

  By Adam Tinworth

  We need frameworks to navigate times of crisis. But the metaphors we choose can have a profound effect on the solutions we create, argued Ben Sauer. Here's how to avoid being shackled by the concepts of the past.

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  Post-Pandemic Consumerism: shaping the future with our (contactless) wallets

  By Adam Tinworth

  As lockdowns eases, and businesses start trading again, the choices we make will help reshape our economies. It's time for mindful consumerism to shine.

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  Douglas Rushkoff on reclaiming digital for Team Human in the post-pandemic world

  By Adam Tinworth

  We surrendered digital to the financial markets in the 1990s, argued Douglas Rushkoff during his interview on 'What's NEXT'. The current crisis offers us an opportunity to rethink everything from media to education. Here's how.

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  Video communication, the big 5, facial recognition and yes, flying cars

  By NEXT Conference

  Every week we take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last.

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  Three shifts for the next ten years

  By David Mattin

  We all know that we’re at a moment of great complexity. Much is uncertain, and no one has a crystal ball. Unwarranted certainty is the first enemy of any attempt to think about the future.

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  Sohail Inayatullah on envisaging the post-pandemic future

  By Adam Tinworth

  You don't predict the post-pandemic future - you create it. That was Sohail Inayatullah's thesis as our latest guest on What's NEXT, gave us the tools we need to build the narrative of a better future.

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  #BlackLivesMatter, beautiful distancing and niche entertainment

  By NEXT Conference

  Every week we take a closer look at the new normal and talk about changing behaviours that are forming in these strange times around the globe, and which of them might last.

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  Welcome to globalisation’s two-speed future

  By Adam Tinworth

  Unwinding globalisation would be hard, slow and financially ruinous. It won't happen. But it can — and will — change in unexpected ways.

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  Globalisation is dead, long live digital globalisation

  By Martin Recke

  Let's face the inevitable: The old model of globalisation is dead. But digital globalisation is poised to thrive.

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  Pamela Pavliscak on emotional technology in the age of coronanxiety

  By Adam Tinworth

  Lockdown and social distancing are playing havoc with our emotions. Can emotional technology help us navigate stormy pandemic seas, and lay the course to a new normal? Here's what Pamela Pavliscak told the 'What's NEXT' audience.

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  Working from home helpers, social distancing detector and the force

  By NEXT Conference

  New picks - things we thought were fascinating this week, curated by Monique van Dusseldorp and David Mattin.

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  Revisiting The Great Reset

  By Martin Recke

  Did we waste a whole decade? This sobering thought comes to mind after revisiting Richard Florida's 2010 book “The Great Reset”.

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  Harper Reed on community and systems to combat a global crisis

  By Adam Tinworth

  What does a technologist with a history of public service do in the face of a global crisis? Gather a community, and figure out how you can help — at least, that was the approach taken by Harper Reed. Here's a summary of his interview on What's NEXT?

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  Digital is becoming photo realistic plus the creation of new job profiles and leisure time activities

  By NEXT Conference

  Five glimpses into our digital near future, curated by Monique van Dusseldorp and David Mattin.