Blog Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close Coronavirus: a globalisation inflection point? By Adam Tinworth COVID-19 and the climate crisis have put a sudden brake on the rush towards globalisation. Can we create a new vision of global business amongst these crises? Embrace ambiguity and forge our quantum future By Adam Tinworth Ambiguity can incite anxiety. Outcomes are unpredictable, and the path ahead is unclear. But it also means possibility — and possibility brings opportunity… Why ambiguity is constantly high By Martin Recke Digital technology – which has no inherent ambiguity – has driven overall ambiguity levels to new heights. How could that happen? You need to learn to live — and manage — in an age of chaos By Adam Tinworth Times of chaos challenge traditional management thinking. But you can survive — and thrive — by changing your thinking, and adapting your business. Complexity and exponential change By Martin Recke Complexity breeds uncertainty and exponential change. To deal with it, we need the interplay of individuals and collectives. Planning in an age of uncertainty By Adam Tinworth Uncertainty is uncomfortable — there's no escaping it. But we need to learn to manage it, even if that management looks very different to what you're familiar with. Business Volatility: three steps to surviving global change By Adam Tinworth Rapid and unpredictable changes in technology are turning business management into a rollercoaster - here's how to cling on, and enjoy the ride… Uncertainty and the end of business as usual By Martin Recke Uncertainty has become the norm. That's the end of business as usual. Systems, not products. Global, not American. Empathy, not disruption. The digital trends you cared about in 2019. By Adam Tinworth The NEXT blog posts from 2019 that caught your attention show a clear roadmap of where digital business is going and paint a fascinating picture of a digital world seeking to learn from its mistakes and reinvent itself. Volatility and the carbon bubble By Martin Recke Our world is volatile, but is this a good thing or not? It depends. The next wave of volatility may well come from the burst of the carbon bubble. Rehumanising digital and escaping dark design patterns: the NEXT blog posts that caught your attention in 2019 By Adam Tinworth Only one of 2019's most read posts was written in that year. But the older posts that you were still finding valuable show a clear interest in reclaiming the humanity of the digital era. Your NEXT great read: book recommendations for 2020 By Adam Tinworth Four of the NEXT team recommend books to educate, entertain and challenge you in the year to come. Stuff to read or listen to over the holidays By Martin Recke In case you get bored over the Christmas break, you may get back to this post and check out some books, newsletters, blogs or podcasts. Sustainability and the mid-life crisis of capitalism By Martin Recke Capitalism in its current shape lacks sustainability, first and foremost in the business sense. We are in the midst of a major reassessment of risk. Trends 2020: fixing our mistakes, building better and with purpose By Adam Tinworth Amid the chaos and confusion of the end of the decade, can we find some positive, creative and sustainable ways forward into the new one? On individualism and collectivism By Martin Recke The relation between individualism and collectivism is changing. The business world and the political sphere are adapting to this change in different ways. Politics, polarisation and uncertainty — unpicking a complex problem By Adam Tinworth It's clear that we need to act on political manipulation of digital – but, unless we do it in a considered way, we could very easily make it worse. Our last chance to avoid digital dystopia By Adam Tinworth Digital is slowly destroying our democracies. Can we act now to preserve digital freedoms and reconnect the body politic? The parallel worlds of publishing By Martin Recke The book publishing industry is a parallel world in its own right. How fitting to publish a book about Parallelwelten. Divide and rule: the dark side of parallel digital cultures By Adam Tinworth The internet can seduce us into like-minded bubbles of people like us. But isolate communities can be easily influenced, and turned down a darker path… Building a politics fit for innovation By Adam Tinworth If you believe in innovation as a cycle rather than as an event, it profoundly changes how you can plan for it. And getting that right might define which parts of the world prosper in the coming decades. The parallel worlds of culture By Martin Recke Digital cultures are fundamentally different not only from mass culture of the 20th century, but also from each other. They'll probably develop a new kind of public sphere. Purpose and profit are the twin hearts of sustainable business By Adam Tinworth Today's digital workers crave more than position and profit - they want purpose in their work. And building your strategy around business with purpose may just be a competitive advantage in the battle for talent. prev 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 … 52 next
