Insights Economic shifts will be exponential By Martin Recke Gradually, and then suddenly, we'll see massive, exponential economic shifts over the next few years. (New) Normality won't return until 2024. Living with Algorithms: a cynical utopian’s guide By Adam Tinworth Algorithms are powerful, and getting more so as they're infused with machine learning. Can we learn from the past in how we live with them? A question of organisation By Martin Recke New organisational models are constantly emerging. This year has given a boost to the hybrid virtual/local organisation. Think global, act local. 10 learnings from the book The Great Redesign By Martin Recke The 2020 crisis is neither a great pause nor a great reset, but calls for a great redesign. We need to design our futures. Home working isn’t going away: how do we adapt? By Adam Tinworth As the second wave of the pandemic approaches, businesses are preparing for long-term home working. How can you make a virtue of a necessity? Workforce management: the key to unlocking pandemic productivity By Adam Tinworth The office has been dethroned as the central organising principle of work. Organising and connecting the workforce digitally is the new monarch of the efficient post-pandemic company. Digitalising education is a necessity in the new normal By Adam Tinworth Pandemic lockdowns and school closures have highlighted just how far we have to go in delivering good digital education. Let's not fail the next generation. Smart transport’s time has come in the wake of the pandemic pause By Adam Tinworth We have the technology to change the way we travel, and the pandemic pause has given us the opportunity to rethink transport. Let's not waste it. My summertime reading book list By Matthias Schrader Matthias Schrader stacked up his personal list of thought-leading book picks for this summer. The time to talk about the future is before you need it By Scott Smith The only way to prepare for difficult futures is to talk about them — in detail. In an extract from his new book 'How To Future' regular NEXT speaker Scott Smith argues that we need 'prehearsals' of the major challenges ahead. A green recovery is our best hope of staving off the climate crisis By Adam Tinworth And it might just prove the biggest business opportunity in the Covid-19 recession, too. Money for nothing By Martin Recke Money is not what it seems. What it is exactly has changed a lot in the past, and continues to change today. Let's try to wrap our head around it. We’ve just been given the best opportunity to rethink mobility in decades. Let’s use it. By Adam Tinworth Fewer commutes. More electric cars. Fewer train journeys. More cycle lanes. A scooter boom. Covid-19 is forcing us to rethink how we travel – and that's a huge opportunity to reshape our lives – and to create new businesses. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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. prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 51 next
