Tag: frontpage Filter Filter by All AI Automation Blog Commerce Creativity Data Future Innovation Leadership Management Media Metaverse Purpose Sustainability Trends close 2018’s 10 most popular posts on the NEXT Blog By Adam Tinworth Which posts on this blog got the most traffic in 2018 - and what can we learn from that? 2018: a digital year in review By Adam Tinworth 2018 is all but done. What happened — and how well did our prediction pan out? Here's a digital year in review. The 2019 digital trends to prepare for right now By Adam Tinworth The big trend of 2019 might be… a small trend? There's some technology that's flying under many people's radar that might genuinely improve lives. But it's less sexy than a new app or device… Chief Marketing Officer: an agile lifeline in digital disruption By Adam Tinworth Think marketing has changed in the last 10 years? It hasn't changed nearly enough. Here's why. Redefining “company” may be the key to sustainable business agility By Adam Tinworth Let's face it - the business structures of the past no longer serve us well. We need to go back to the roots of what a "company" is — and that will guide us to new solutions. Fighting for the future in the media of the past By Adam Tinworth It seems counter-intuitive to seek answers to the problems of the future in the media of the last millennium. But sometimes a good, challenging book is exactly the antidote to the social media age we need. After the fall: as Facebook’s image collapses, what can we learn for the products we build next? By Adam Tinworth Facebook had a torrid week — and deservedly so. What can the next wave of digital products learn from its mistakes, to avoid falling into the same traps? Will Facebook give Nick Clegg the power it needs to reinvigorate its public image? By Adam Tinworth The easiest way for Facebook to avoid regulation and legislative intervention would be to become the sort of company that doesn’t need it. That’s just not going to happen with the current Facebook power structure. Zuckerberg rules as an autocrat, with Sandberg as his enforcer. Is Tim Cook really building a greener Apple? By Adam Tinworth This weeks, people started getting their new Mac minis and MacBook Airs, which were announced last week. It’s a more sustainable, greener product right? The solution to phone obsession is new ideas, not old ones By Adam Tinworth A new company under the venerable Palm name is trying to reduce phone addiction - by giving people two phones. Is the way forwards to go backwards? What do we do about Facebook Portal’s privacy problem? By Adam Tinworth The delightful thing about NEXT18 was disappearing into a huddle of people genuinely trying to make a difference… NEXT18 Themes #1: Rediscovering the human in the digital By Adam Tinworth Perhaps it seems obvious, but the clear thread running through NEXT18 was that the digital fix we really needs is a digital industry that serves all humanity, not a handful of billionaires in Silicon Valley. The fightback starts here… Holley M. Murchison: the path to accurate and artful self-definition By Adam Tinworth How do you truly define yourself and what you do? Our on-stage host closed out NEXT18 with a workshop helping us do just that. How to deal with ubiquitous technology? By Adam Tinworth A NEXT18 discussion between Amber Case, Pamela Pavliscak and Monique van Dusseldorp on the emotional and social impact of having our connected technology always with us. John Watton: using AI to humanise customer experience By Adam Tinworth Customer experience is becoming the critical differenciator for business. Counter-intuitively, AI could be the route to humanise the experience at scale. Virginia Dignum: what ethical AI can do for us By Adam Tinworth Artificial intelligence is no longer a computer science problem alone. We need ethics expertise, legal expertise and more… A 30 year veteran of the field puts it in context for us. Imogen Heap: the diaries of a music and tech adventurist By Adam Tinworth What does Block chain have to do with music? Everything, if Imogen Heap has anything to do with it. It could build a new network of creativity… Joseph Lubin: where Blockchain takes us next By Adam Tinworth The Blockchain is widely seen as the next wave of online technology — but can it live up to the hype and, if so, when? Tobias Revell: Imagining Machines Better By Adam Tinworth Perhaps one of the reasons technology has gone wrong is that our dreams of its future have got so small. Does art offer a way out of our failure of technological imagination? Amber Case: Designing calm technology By Adam Tinworth Our technology demands out attention. We lack control over it. It stops us losing a sense of time. Amber Case tells the NEXT18 crowd how to reclaim calm technology. David Mattin: New technologies and the search for meaning By Adam Tinworth The last wave of tech failed because it didn’t account for humanity. If we remember our higher order needs, says David Mattin, we’ll build better tech in future. Marc Mellone: a global study into mobility needs – and opportunities By Adam Tinworth The future of mobility is about much more than autonomous cars. A Fjord research project delved deep into the specific mobility needs of varying people worldwide. Samuel West: #FailLikeAGerman – and other things we can learn from failure By Adam Tinworth There's always more to learn about smart failures. The Museum of Failure founder makes a return visit to NEXT, to take about new and old failures, and even a German failure… prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 58 next