Professional Futurist / Strategist
Forget about trying to displace oil, the target for disruption is the internal combustion engine! If you want a sneak peak at the most revolutionary ideas in how we design, build and experience cars visit: Local Motors, River Simple, Commn, and Trexa (Image). These companies are rethinking platform-based vehicle design to support manufacturing and business model innovations that [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Forecast & Outlook: The future of unconventional natural gas is the buzz topic within the world of energy forecasting. Natural gas is a clean, versatile fuel that could eventually expand beyond centralized utility power plants into markets for smaller scale Distributed Power systems, as a cleaner transportation fuel in the ‘Electric-H2 Age’, and if all [...]
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