DECODING TOMORROW: FUTURISM AND FORESIGHTS TODAY

FORESIGHTS AND IDEAS THAT EXPAND MINDS AND INSPIRE A CHANGE OF HEART.

06 May 2016

Digital Technology - We Are Living In Disruptive Times

Digital technology is no longer just a driver of marginal effeciency, it has become an enabler of fundamental disruption and innovation. Banking, finance, hospitality, transport and the food industry are a few amongst many industries ...

04 May 2016

HR and Digital Disruption: How to Win Digital Minds and Analogue Hearts

While presenting at HR Tech Fest last year in Sydney, I asked the room “how many people wear an analogue watch?” About half the room raised their hands. I’m always baffled by this. We’re supposedly living in an era of digital ...

28 Apr 2016

4 Consequences Of Self-Driving Trucks

For those of you who follow this blog know that we at Thinque once in a while publish blog posts about AI, robots, self-driving cars and the automatisation so I thought I would share this news from TechCrunch: a convoy of driverless ...

27 Apr 2016

Disruption In The TV industry: Multi-Platform Use And On-Demand

Today's consumers are increasingly abandoning pay TV-subscriptions and instead choosing subscription on-demand video streaming platforms such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video and HBO. This development is of course coming at the expense ...

22 Apr 2016

The Link Between Procrastination and Creative Ideas

Is procrastination a vice or a virtue for creativity? In this fascinating TED-talk, organisational psychologist and professor Adam Grant presents his research on the link between procrastination and creative ideas. Grant says in this ...

19 Apr 2016

How Aesop Creates Unique And Compelling Customer Experiences

The digitisation has changed the retail game forever. A lot of traditional bricks-and-mortar retail stores, including my moms 100-year old haberdashery, Georg Sörman, in Stockholm, Sweden, have faced serious challenges as more and ...

15 Apr 2016

A Futurist's Perspective On The Future Of Jobs, Robots And AI

Most of us have heard or read about the impact that robots, AI and digital technology will have on the future of jobs. But how many jobs are at risk of being obsolete in the future and which jobs are we talking about here? In this ...