Digital Transformation: This Is The Future Of Retail
When you think about digital transformation (BTW, I got a newsletter the other day where they tried to represent digital transformation by using DX, you know, like UX – not sure that…
February 16, 2020Humans Are Lazy
Stop Asking The Customer To Jump Through Your Hoops In some ideation sessions that I’ve been a part of when attendees start the description of the idea with “the customer needs to”…
January 28, 2020What Use Humans?
In a world With Ultra Smart AI Based Bots, Are Humans Useful? Not a day goes by that there isn’t yet another story discussing how an AI has bested a human in…
September 14, 2017Time: The Real Final Frontier
Space is not the Final Frontier. It’s Time. It’s come to my attention that there is something wrong with time. We are obsessed with it – with being more productive and mindful…
July 20, 2017The Future of Shopping: Are you Ready for Conversational Commerce?
Welcome to the Future of Shopping. Are you Ready For It? Lately, we’ve looked out at the near future and determined that there are several huge sociological, economic and technological shifts that…
March 16, 2017People Drive Progress And Disruption, Not Technology
How Do You Progress? Keep Moving Forward, No Matter What Recently, we’ve been running several foresight exercises to consider the future of certain technologies more than ten years out, and I must…
February 28, 2017Connecting: The Key To Your Next Billion Dollar Business
What Do These Billion Dollar Businesses Have In Common? What do all of these companies have in common? Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Instacart, Etsy, eBay & WeWork Some things have been said; while…
August 23, 2016In The Future, We Will All Be Rich Enough Not To Waste Time
Soon, We Can Choose Not To Waste Time One of my favorite movies of all time, Wall Street, (don’t hate me) depicted a tough-talking, ultra-rich stock trader (Gordon Gekko) who was being pursued by…
June 7, 2016The Next Hot Space: Chat Bots and Conversational Interfaces
The rise of the Smart (and not so smart) Chat Bots. I’ve talked at length before about the Seamless World, wherein some not too distant future, big data, the internet of things,…
April 12, 2016Hyperpersonalization Hits Home
Hyperpersonalization Creates Bubbles Of One A while back, I wrote a post on hyperpersonalization impeding innovation – which discussed how keeping people in their little cocoons by surrounding them with a completely personalized experience…
December 11, 2015