Podcasts As a couple, should you have a strategic plan? If big organisations can have strategy workshops and develop long-term plans which propel their business into the future - should people in romantic relationships be doing the same thing?
Tools Featured You've written a business strategy, but is it any good? Management frameworks are useful tools to know which steps you need to cover when writing a business strategy, but how do you know whether the content of what you have written and what you have decided is any good?
Reports 9 South African small business opportunities for 2020 Let's get into the list of ideas that I think are worth investigating if starting a South African small business in 2020 is your vibe.
Videos Alex McDowell: Designing stories that shape the future Worldbuilding combines the disciplines of design, technology and storytelling.
Videos The art of finding personal meaning in challenging times The world feels like a pretty chaotic place at the moment. People are anxious and fearful about what the future might hold for themselves and their children. Under these conditions of stress - what can you personally do to find more hope in the headlines?
Case studies Featured The future of crime in the year 2054 How will technology develop from now until then, how will business react, in what ways will that affect society - and how will politicians then try to put the flames out with their policies and regulations?
Tools Is your organisation ready for the future? Take this test to find out If an organisation is going to prosper into the future is an organisational futures-consciousness that proactively seeks out and pursues new business opportunity within the context of this change.
Podcasts Introducing our new podcast series Heroes of Futurism, is about the future and how to create it; what opportunities exist, what ideas are worth thinking about and how you can begin to design the future that you want.
Articles Featured The secret to getting buy-in for your all-important strategy presentation Having worked countless hours, often late into the night, on the strategy - everything rested on Porky's personal charism and charming ability to get buy-in from the company's exco.
Articles Why the South African government is totally wrong about their focus on creating jobs If you want to win an election - promise people jobs.
Articles Featured 6 things I learnt from a recent trip to Tokyo, Japan Last month — my fiance and I realised that crazy, ‘Post-It note ambition’ by spending a very memorable week in Tokyo. I would be lying if I told you that it was everything that I expected, because Tokyo is so much more than anyone could wildly imagine.
Articles Why South Africa's economy will not get any better There is a worn out old saying that states: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." And in South Africa there is no more relevant a saying than this.
Articles Banksy pops up in Venice Banksy made a brief appearance in the form of a pop up art stall in Venice Italy – before being told to shove off by police, because the stall didn’t have a trading licence.
Case studies Featured Design fiction: The business value of designing imaginative new worlds Over the years we have prided ourselves on having produced numerous great examples of ‘futures world building’ for innovative clients like BAT, Dimension Data, UCT’s Graduate School of Business, Santam and Woolworths.
Tools Why context matters for South African business in 2018 Every single organisation operates within a larger contextual environment, which is constantly shifting and changing on multiple dimensions.
Videos Why the way you think about reality determines how your future will unfold Scientists are pretty convinced that our reality is a hallucination – and when we agree on what our collective hallucinations are…we call that reality.
Articles Forecasting: With weather and business, forewarned is forearmed While watching the live broadcast of Hurricane Irma smashing its way through Florida on CNN yesterday, it really struck me as to how powerful forecasting is, in many aspects of life. Without the accurate hurricane forecasting models that the US authorities used to inform them of which regions needed the
Articles Namibian landscapes Some people love the Namibian landscape – others find the sparseness of the desert too much to bare.
Articles Driving Namibia Namibia is the perfect destination if clawing back perspective is your intention.
Videos How clear is your vision of the future? Your future is very much dependant on the quality of your vision of the future.
Videos The terrible price we pay for our addiction to certainty Reality itself is based on how we choose to see the world. And in our quest to calm our brains in the face of unlimited, complex stimuli – we revel in certainty. But in a complex, interconnect world – our brains are largely doing us a disservice.
Case studies #makethefuture – Shell’s scenario planning video goes viral Shell’s 2016 #makethefuture video contribution, entitled The Best Day of My Life, is going viral.
Tools How to be a disruptive innovator The term ‘disruptive’ is radically overused and almost universally misunderstood. Everything from Uber to AirBNB and Tesla (as well as anything technology-based) is broadly anointed to be an example of disruptive innovation.
Articles 9 Things I learnt about South Africa, thanks to some time in Australia For the second time this year, I spent a week in Western Australia doing some consulting work for an Australian retail client.
