SMAC Expert Series: Paul Roehrig and…
06/13/2013
How does big data impact companies today? How are companies competing on the use of business intelligence?…
Connected Devices: Huge Numbers, Huge…
06/07/2013
By 2020 the number of connected devices is expected to double, reaching 50 billion globally. The Carbon…
Digital Marketing In 2020
05/29/2013
There was a time when digital marketers had only PCs to contend with. Now smartphones, tablets and wearable…
Obama Makes it "Machine Readable"
05/09/2013
Perhaps with Syria, sequesters, gun control, immigration, and a $15bn trillion dollar economy to grow,…
Dude, Where's My Email?
04/03/2013
How quickly a colleague responds to our well-crafted email or how quickly we respond in turn usually…
A Look At The Future Of Marketing Agencies
03/20/2013
Despite the changes brought about by the digital revolution, marketing agencies remain essentially helpers…
The Bossless Future Of Work
03/15/2013
Top-down hierarchical structures often stifle innovation and collaboration and smart companies are finding…
The World's First "Pop Up" University
02/22/2013
Most students go to university so they'll be able to get better jobs and make more money but in today's…
Transferable Skills For Future Fluid…
02/20/2013
As workflow becomes more project-oriented and businesses adapt their internal structures so that they…
Commuters of the World Unite ...
02/06/2013
... you have nothing to lose but your season ticket passes. We've clearly seen an uptick in teleworking…
Future of Jobs in Changing Economy
01/31/2013
Futurists have long been keeping tabs on how automation would impact jobs, both blue-collar and white-collar…
From Bricks to Membranes
01/29/2013
Businesses are facing new challenges and new opportunities amidst cut-throat competition, rapid technology…
Intel Paints Its Picture Of The Future…
01/01/2013
Thinking about the future, the US chip maker, Intel, has pondered the issue of workers and workplaces…
Mobility And Flexibility Will Shape…
12/13/2012
The office of the future will be increasingly mobile and flexible, with employees working from diverse…
Personal Branding - Key Career Skill…
12/11/2012
A rising number of employers looking to hire and retain talent are valuing equally the applicants' key…
The Future of Shiny Happy People
12/05/2012
What is happening in the workplace around the world? Economic data of the past few years paints a mixed…
Innovation At The Heart Of eBay's Formula…
12/03/2012
At the recent FT Innovate 2012 conference in London, eBay's Jacob Aqraou spoke about how the company…
Rolling Beta
12/03/2012
Beta, the second letter of the Greek alphabet, is ruling our world. In finance, beta is a measure…
6,000 Amazon Fans Can't Be Wrong
11/28/2012
Amazon is having a big pow wow in Las Vegas this week for customers and partners and I spent the day…
Companies Get More Responsive To Innovation…
11/26/2012
Companies are opening up to innovative IT solutions because of the lower barriers of entry for a range…
The Death of the Cubicle
11/21/2012
Telecommuting promised to transform the traditional workplace, enabling workers to do their jobs from…
The Future of Work in Chattanooga
11/21/2012
Thomas Friedman writes a really nice piece about how Chattanooga Tennessee has invested in very high…
Looking To The Cloud To Meet Sky-High…
11/19/2012
Software continues to permeate almost any industry and big investments have started flowing to the developer…
Tasty Innovation Recipe
11/14/2012
The most successful companies that think outside the bun, I mean box, usually follow one of three paths…
Software Eats the World
09/14/2012
My Co-Director of the Center for the Future of Work Paul Roehrig has written about smart robots and…
The Next Step in Global Sourcing
09/14/2012
MITs Technology Review has an extended feature on The Future of Work in Julys edition. http://www.technologyreview.com/businessreport/the-future-of-work/…
Microsoft and the Future of Services
09/14/2012
Depending on your perspective this is a sad overview of atrophy, hubris, and snafus or the best news…
The Future of American Work
09/14/2012
Not all is gloom and doom in the American heartlands. This Economist piece looks at the future of the…
Robots in China
09/10/2012
No, this isn't about a new opera from John Adams, but it is an eye-opening piece from the NYT about…
The Future of Work has to Work
09/10/2012
You'd have had to have been in a cave to have missed the firestorm about this piece from The Atlantic…
We're a Garage Band
09/10/2012
This new HBR article about innovation within large companies (arguing that this is firstly doable and…
A Very Cool Future of Work Space
09/07/2012
Although you might imagine wanting to go to the office is counter to our Future of Work way of thinking,…
Marketers Pin Hopes On Big Data And…
06/11/2013
If you understand your audience, you will be an effective marketer. But how exactly do marketing professionals…
Code Rules
06/04/2013
Today’s high-flying companies — the outliers in revenue growth and value creation —…
Future of Value Creation
05/20/2013
In days gone by, value creation was based on economies of scale, meaning mass production and the high…
What Will Shape Jobs In The Decade…
05/01/2013
Various factors are expected to come into play to influence jobs in the next decade and beyond. These…
The FT's Future Model for Newspapers…
04/02/2013
The Financial Time's handling of the transition away from the ad supported dead tree model to the subscription…
Veronica Mars and the Future of Movies…
03/18/2013
This is a very interesting article on the curious tale of the funding for a movie based on the long…
The Future of Education
03/06/2013
Another interesting, provocative spotlight from Tom Friedman; this time on the future of university…
EMERGENCY; The Future of American Healthcare…
02/21/2013
The future of work is all about re-wiring work to make it better. There are few things in our modern…
The Future of Productivity
02/11/2013
Tony Schwartz's article in (Sunday's) New York Times (clever guys, clever) struck a nerve. In fact,…
The Digital Social Enterprise - The…
02/01/2013
This short video is a greatest hits (Social Enterprise on 45 anyone?) version of the presentation that…
Connecting the Dots Before our Very…
01/30/2013
The debate that Tom Friedman neatly lays out in this piece in the New York Times is arguably the debate…
Sneak Peek At PSFK's Future Of Work…
01/14/2013
The way we work is changing fast and both employers and employees need to quickly adjust to changing…
Retailers Hail The Robotic Warehouse!
12/27/2012
Weather-beaten or brand spanking new, small or capacious - the warehouse is the life blood of all e-commerce.…
LinkedIn Workers Run Wild With InCubator
12/12/2012
LinkedIn, the professional social-networking expert, is joining a number of other tech giants in giving…
Building An Innovation Ecosystem
12/07/2012
When it comes to innovation, which is key to success and growth of a company or industry, we usually…
The 20/20 on 2020 Workplace Trends
12/05/2012
We are living in a world shaped and driven by profound change. Technology is turning the global community…
The History of the Office Provides…
12/03/2012
Vinnie Mirchandani, of Deal Architect fame, has some great thoughts on the future of the office. Ricky…
The Thing About the Internet of Things
11/29/2012
General Electric, the global manufacturing behemoth with capabilities spanning home appliances, jet…
Critical Skills Needed To Win Job Or…
11/27/2012
Workers must add four essential job skills to their basic competencies if they want better job opportunities…
Developing Gen Y Leaders Through Gamification
11/21/2012
Like it or not, Generation Y is set to become the leading force in the future workplace. But do the…
The Social Economy
11/21/2012
While the vast majority of organizations (72%) use social technologies in some way, very few are realizing…
The Future's So Bright
11/20/2012
Barbara and Pat MacDonald (Google them and you'll get it) are probably big fans of this great video…
The Era of Re
11/14/2012
Many companies can generate creative new products and services, but those rethinking and reshaping their…
The Post Recessionary Future of Work…
11/12/2012
The recession has ushered in a phenomenon that has looked inevitable for some time to those prepared…
The Race to the Top
09/14/2012
I'm sort of surprised that none of the politicians in or out of the US presidential campaign (or their…
Can Curation Be Curated?
09/14/2012
I know, I know; a little cute. But this article caught my eye as we here at the Center for the Future…
The Future of Work is Awesome
09/14/2012
This amazing ad about Xfinity has Future of Work written all over it even though it focuses on entertainment.…
A New Chapter in Globalization
09/14/2012
People used to go to the work. Now work goes to the people. This article outlines potentially the next…
Big(ger) Data, Big(ger) Business
09/10/2012
This is a great piece on the collision of big data and economics. I particularly like this sentence…
The Code Will See You Now
09/10/2012
Man alive; I hope Mr Khosla doesn't get sick anytime soon. Not sure he's going to get going to get much…
Corning's Glass Movie #1
09/07/2012
Every time I watch this now iconic film I'm excited by the possibilities it raises in how computing…
Four Forces and the Future of Work
09/07/2012
This is one of the best articles I've read that outlines the underlying macro trends in which the Future…
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