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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Clem Sunter and Chantell Ilbury are scenario planners who for years have been identifying probable triggers in society and then describing the possible futures that might result because of these triggers.
In an article “Triggers that change the future” they identified 2 triggers for South Africa (and 2 for the rest ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
I came across a very interesting article of Kevin Kelle. After reading it and following various links I realised that a lot of readers have also ‘discovered’ his article and contributed and referred to it. Such is the nature and advances of the digital world. We are globally ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
My friend recently became father for the first time and he uploaded the pictures of his newborn baby girl and introduced her to his entire group of friends via facebook. The world as our parents knew it have changed and digital technology are more integrated in our way of ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
If you could understand the future
What would you do different today?
Another trend I would like to elaborate on is “life today imitates digital”.
More people interact through PC’s, PDA’s, cell phones and dial-up connections today than ever before. We book a movie online, we pay our bills, do our banking ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
If you could understand the future
What would you do different today?
Understanding trends can help to reshape your business better for the future. In my last post I have mentioned some trends and would like to elaborate on them with my next few posts.
Baby boomers are the generation born between ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
In StrategyTuesday #24 I mentioned that Drucker said that in order to formulate your company’s mission statement you have to answer 3 questions, namely
What is my business?
What will my business be in the future (to modify, extend and develop your existing business) and
What should my business be? (Identify new opportunities ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
The new movement in business is to automate all business actions and to free up employees for high-level innovative contributions. As a result of this, employees will increasingly have to make important business related decisions.
For this reason, it is important that everyone in your company is very clear about what ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
In her book Clicking, Faith Popcorn and her team predicted that a window of opportunity for big earnings are ahead for “Tech-Knows” entrepreneurs.
Faith’s research showed that people are “cashing out” of the corporate environment to start their own businesses. She quoted numbers showing that in 1989 a total of 70% ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
In Bill Gates’ article on creative capitalism he explores the question of “How to most effectively spread the benefits of capitalism and the improvements in quality of life it can provide to people who have been left out”?
Wolf is convinced that globalisation has proven to be the best means of ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Running a small / medium enterprise you sometimes find yourself drawn to one of two options when allocating your time and focus.
The one, being the big contracts and projects that bring in a bubble of income but that sometimes takes months to pull off. When you are used ...
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