Tag: frontpage Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close Festivalisation: make a conference a community that lasts By Adam Tinworth Festivalisation is more than just a buzzword, it's a process that brings parallel world together into a community. And it might be more important than ever in the digital world. The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare By Adam Tinworth The paperless office hasn't arrived yet, despite decades promising that it's just round the corner. We should be glad of that. It would be terrible. Why scientism will destroy your company’s ability to innovate By Adam Tinworth Our ability to quantify and measure nearly everything has grown exponentially. But that doesn't mean that the scientific methods is the best way to run product teams. How to survive in the Post-Digital Era By Adam Tinworth What happens when digital becomes commonplace, and a new tech announcement floods us with ennui, not excitement? We're finding out, as we're firmly in the post-digital era now. Solving the challenge of digital overwhelm: attention management By Adam Tinworth Transformational technology has always triggered change in multiple parallel fields. But, before now, we weren't constantly exposed to information about it. How do we focus when there's more change that we can track? Drink up. It’s closing time for the traditional CMO. By Adam Tinworth If you think that CMOs can still get by as a purely advertising-and-PR function, then I'm afraid last orders have been called. Today's marketing needs a profound culture change. Here's how. The Two Faces of Corporate Innovation By Adam Tinworth Digital innovation is a corporate virtue of the 21st century, and all businesses are innovative all the time - if you believe their PR. So why is so little actually changing? Innovation is fragmented, not monolithic. The next change will surprise us. By Adam Tinworth The world wasn't watching as the web was born. Many people laughed at the iPhone, a product from a company not long off life-support. True innovation happens in fragmented worlds away from the mainstream. Global tribalism: can we adapt to it? By Adam Tinworth Tribalism is fundamental to humanity - we always gather in communities. But the internet has allowed us to bothe connect globally, while isolating ourselves locally. Therein lies the danger. Lessons from parallel digital worlds By Adam Tinworth The digital world is not a homogenous whole, but a series of parallel states, twisting ideas into new forms as they pass between them. And Instagram is becoming a very western version of a Chinese idea… Politics as design problems of today By Kristina Bonitz In the sunny streets of Austin, Texas, the tech industry is starting to escape from the gloom of the last few years, with a more mature, human vision of the future it wants to build. Digital’s easy scale has proven to be ruinously expensive By Adam Tinworth The digital unicorns have been enjoying the lucrative advantages of worldwide scale — without paying the price. But there are others costs, that might be even more expensive… Warren’s plan to break up the tech companies is the beginning of a mature conversation about tech By Adam Tinworth The would-be Democratic Party candidate for US President used SXSW to promote her vision of reigning in big tech. And we should be welcoming this discussion, not running scared of it. Business resilience – and the attack of the snails By Adam Tinworth Technology change is inevitable and unavoidable - but it's often surprisingly predictable. If you can't adapt to survive it, you deserve to face your own twilight of the gods… Beyond digital childhood: a new, more nuanced, tech utopianism By Adam Tinworth George Dyson wrote that we're at the end of the digital's world's childhood. How do we make sure it grows up into a well-rounded adult? Systems Thinking: our guard against unintended consequences By Adam Tinworth We live in a world of complex, inter-dependent systems, and any thinking that fails to include that runs the risk of summoning the law of unintended consequences. Innovation’s price is Future Shock — and we’re paying it now By Adam Tinworth Here’s my heretical question: is innovation always good? We’re trapped in a toxic cycle of fragmentation and centralisation By Adam Tinworth Fragmentation is getting a really bad press, right now. There are some good reasons for that. Forget Big Bang innovation; it’s all built on islands of invention By Adam Tinworth We’re looking for interesting innovation in the wrong places. Single, big, transformative innovations are so rare as to be worth ignoring. The interesting stuff happens at smaller scales. Forget augmented reality — we’re already living in an augmented society. By Adam Tinworth As the internet relentlessly connects us, people grow more lonely. Maybe some of the problems aren't digital at all… We are messy complex beings; we should have messy, complex digital lives, too By Adam Tinworth One of the assumptions that Facebook is built on — that we have single, definable identities — is palpably false. Is this the chink in the digital behemoth armour? After Facebook: the explosion of parallel social worlds By Adam Tinworth While the big social platforms are in no danger of dying, there's growing evidence that people are starting to create more private, smaller online spaces for themselves. And there's good evolutionary reasons why that's happening. NEXT’s most popular 2018 posts: the future of work and products By Adam Tinworth Which of 2018's posts caught your eye on the NEXT blog? Product development and sustainable business were popular topics - but what are the surprises? prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 58 next
