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Connecting the Physical World with the Digital World through Apps
We are witnessing an explosion of apps for our handheld devices. When Apple introduced their iPhone SDK (software development kit) on March 6, 2008, no one had a clue about the tectonic plate-shifting nature of this announcement. In just a few short years the number...
Eight Great Explosions in Video
What will it be like to watch television in 2030? Having just returned from four days at the famous Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I am spending the next couple weeks sorting through the vast array of products I came across, looking for overarching trends and...
The Future of the Cruise Industry
Designing cruise ships today to meet the wants, needs, and desires of future generations Having just returned from a holiday cruise on the Mexican Riviera, I became intrigued with the prospects for this behemoth industry, and the long-term implications of designing...
Global Elections
Introducing the Slashcasters
Slashcasters, a new breed of pitchmen for the digital age of retail I was recently asked to do the keynote talk at a retailer conference in Orlando, Florida speaking on the topic of what the future of retail may hold. At one point in the conversation, the caller made...
Where the Books Used to Be
Last weekend I spent a couple days in the very impressive city of Carmel, Indiana, just north of Indianapolis. My hosts for this trip were Wendy Phillips, Director of the Carmel Clay Public Library, and her husband Greg, a Senior Business Analyst at FFA. The two were...
The Headless Organization
“The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense,while substance has an affinity for income” - Dee Hock, former CEO of Visa Disintermediation is a term that sprung to life in the mid-1990s during the formative years of the...
Business Colonies: A study of structure, organization, and the evolution of work
Business Colonies: Matching talent with pending work projects The average person that turns 30 years old in the U.S. today has worked 11 different jobs. In just 10 years, the average person who turns 30 will have worked 200-300 different projects. Business is becoming...
City of the Future – Part 2
Building Culture, Striving for "Divine Context" As we start to understand the way people connect with their local communities in the future, we begin to see a growing need for central gathering places to help drive person-to-person activities. Ironically, at a time...
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