Cisco CEO John Chambers Urges Innovation Across Market Transitions and Video based Collaboration

Cisco CEO John Chambers is selling a very powerful vision of future growth based on innovation timed to major market transitions occurring in business, government, education and infrastructure.  His current ‘network-based collaboration’ stump speech offers lessons on building an organizational culture based on foresight and innovation: Innovate across Market Transitions – The secret to company [...]

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Davos 2010 Ideas Lab Talks from MIT Group on Nature of Social and Connected Intelligence [5 Videos]

The 2010 World Economic Forum (“Davos”) has released a set of 5 minute video presentations from its IdeasLab program. Presentations are limited to 5 minutes (20 slides) so there is no ‘death by powerpoint‘, just good old fashioned ideas sharing from some of the world’s brightest minds. Here are five presentations from a group of [...]

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GM’s Decision to Build Electric Motors Could Shift Conversation on Future of American Manufacturing

Forecast & Outlook: Electric vehicles (EVs) powered by the integration of batteries, hydrogen fuel cells and capacitors, represent an enormous opportunity for re-tooling America’s manufacturing base.  The high end of the value chain in automobiles is no longer based on combustion engines or mechanical systems, and has shifted towards electric propulsion, composite materials, energy storage/conversion, [...]

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Company to Watch in Bio Industrialism: Novozymes [Videos]

Before we look at what makes Novozymes a company to watch – it is helpful to understand the market transitions occuring in materials science and engineering that drive all major sectors from food to energy to pharmaceuticals. An Era based Look at Industrialism: Ores, Hydrocarbons & Semiconductors The history of industrialism, and our ability to manipulate [...]

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Beyond the Military, A Bright Future for Situational Awareness Systems

Forecast & Outlook:  The principles of ‘situational awareness’ based on perception, comprehensive and projection might soon support a wide range of applications that reach far beyond military operations and crisis response.   It is a user and outcomes-centric systems approach that could integrate anticipated advances in mobility, ‘smart’ infrastructure, learning systems, policy-making and business intelligence. [...]

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[Video] The Future of Coal, Carbon and Cathedral Thinking

Forecast & Outlook:  Coal is the world’s fastest growing source of energy and leading fuel source associated with carbon emissions.  There is a two-fold path to rethinking our relationship with coal’s carbon molecules based on ‘Cathedral Thinking‘ and ‘Manhattan Project‘ strategies.  The end result and legacy we might leave future generations is a new capacity to better [...]

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Ford 2012 Focus Is One Step Closer To Skateboard Chassis Manufacturing Platform and End of Combustion Engine

Forecast & Outlook: The global conversation about the future of transportation will soon shift from a narrow focus on incrementally improving ‘miles per gallon’- to a more substantive and fundamental rethinking of vehicle design and manufacturing based on an era of ‘drive by wire’ control systems, wheel-based electric motors and the integration of batteries, hydrogen fuel cells [...]

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Companies and Projects Exploring the Future of Search and Enterprise Learning

Forecast: Our enterprise tools for searching, synthesizing, manipulating and transforming data into knowledge and skills will soon move beyond short keyword text searches into an era of more interactive, personalized and software-guided experiences.  The next wave of enterprise search, collaboration and learning tools will be built around: voice (natural language/conversation), video, location, social relationships, real-time [...]

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[Video] Nandan Nilekani Looks at the Future of India and Ideas to Leverage its Demographic Dividend

Forecast: Leveraging and supporting India’s ‘demographic dividend’ will soon become the focus of many nations (beyond India) as a driver of economic growth and geopolitical stability in the next fifty years. Having spent nearly two years of my life living in South Asia (Nepal and India), I will admit a favorable (and optimistic) bias towards [...]

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[Videos] Building a Vision and Marketplace for Lifelong Learning

Forecast & Outlook: Learning Systems certainly have what it takes to become a ‘next big thing’ in the world of business.  (Sarcasm intended!)  Yes, we are still years away from personal learning systems becoming functional and widespread.  But, there are signs that conversations about a learning culture are shifting from  classroom to boardroom.  Company leaders [...]

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