Hybrid Workshops
How to prioritise connection and attendee experience in a hybrid workshop If you are thinking about running a hybrid workshop, there’s a lot to consid…
Technology
Freeing your data up to support the employee journey
In this blog post, I look at data silos, how they emerged and the problems they can cause within an organisation. I consider this challenge through …
Why innovate energy?
Why innovate energy? The front end of energy means what exactly? It is the place I feel I can make the best contribution, a place where innovation thr…
Transformation without predictive analytics
A few months before he passed away, Clayton Christensen said at an interview in November 2019, that we are trained to select data, analyse it and make …
The future of AI in sports for players, broadcasters and fans
Image credit: Any IP Ltd AI already plays a significant role in the technology that we all use. This goes for sports, telecoms, mobile technology and…
Innovation Funding Grants for Start-ups
As UK unemployment increases by over 600’000 people and the economy shrinks by over 20% the scale of the Covid-19 shock is expected to be the deepest e…
Inspiration – and a method for survival and growth in crisis situations
This period is more dramatic, more global and more unusual than anything seen by anyone working today – this is the opinion of journalist Fareed Zakari…
Making the Virtual Workshop a Reality
What happens when your company unexpectedly announces business travel restrictions? For hundreds of thousands of workers, this has already become a rea…
Empowering and enabling the employee journeys of the future
This thought piece will build on the ideas I brought to the table in Would you be willing to let a machine take your job? and The transformative power …
The transformative power of automation in HR
Across industries, Human Resources teams are being challenged to do more with less. This means being innovative and coming up with new ways to work, pr…
Would you be willing to let a machine take your job?
The world of work is changing. Calling someone a Luddite today gives the impression that they are a thoughtless opponent of progress, resistant to tech…
Predict the future through history
In a world where the only constant is change, where trends and new technologies are appearing, but also disappearing in such a short time, every hint o…
The internal perception gap that is holding back your employee experience
Recently, I wrote about the perception gap that exists between how businesses think they are doing, regarding the delivery of great customer experience…
How Objectivity About New Technology Is Key To Delivering A Leading Customer Experience
At the beginning of May NICE inContact released its second annual, global research study that investigated the changing attitudes of contact center lea…
RegTech & the changing world of Compliance
The early years of the 21st century have heralded a marked change in the business environment as well as the arrival of the 4th Industrial revolution a…
Levelling the playing field. Potentially the biggest challenge to your Digital Transformation in a generation.
At the beginning of the internet, governments put in place policies and interventions to stimulate economic activity and opportunities. Now, over 30 ye…
Is sustainability part of your innovation strategy?
Talk about Innovation and we think of new, bright, shiny. We immediately want or ‘need’ the latest version of our phone, laptop or other device; we imm…
The Hospitality Industry and its quest for innovation
Innovation is at the top of mind of most senior management executives across industries- be it healthcare, banking, insurance or retail. While it is vo…
Picking the right innovation races
Which way do you pick your horse for the Grand National? Would you use your personal relationships to speak to someone in the horse and racing game or …
Delivering the next generation
Many of our readers will be aware that The Future Shapers is currently crowdfunding with Crowdcube. As part of the process we support investors and po…