by Minter Dial | Nov 28, 2017 | Futureproof, New Tech
I was on a plane the other day and was quite amused to hear my neighbour, a fairly senior executive in his early 40s, suggest that his company (in fact, his industry) was actually protected from disruption. The industry in question was Insurance and the player in...
by Minter Dial | Nov 14, 2017 | Internet of Things, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, New Tech, Responsibility
I’ve been known to start off conversations by saying: The more digital you become, the less digital you will want to be. #DigitalIQ Share on X Most Gen Y don’t agree with me; Gen Z typically frown at the thought; and Baby Boomers tend to split down the...
by Minter Dial | Oct 31, 2017 | Futureproof, New Tech
I should have known that Cluj, the second largest city in Romania, was going to provide a few digital surprises. And it didn’t fail me. First off, the entrepreneurial driver from the airport immediately volunteered to tether Internet access through his own...
by Minter Dial | Oct 20, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data Analytics, Futureproof, Mobile
Short Term: Mobile and Retail Mobile technologies will completely transform the world of retail in the very short term. If I can walk in to a store, be immediately recognised by beacon and my existing account data, a whole lot of interesting things can happen. Combine...
by Minter Dial | Oct 17, 2017 | Digital Transformation, Futureproof, New Tech
Technological change is almost always told as a story of destruction. A new thing is invented, and it crushes everything in its path. From Frankenstein’s monster terrorising villagers in 1818, through post-nuclear Godzilla stomping Tokyo flat, we have ended up in 2015...
by Minter Dial | Oct 13, 2017 | Futureproof, New Tech, Web Enabled
The Web-enabled Force is the most importance force. There, I said it. It’s hard to imagine anything more important than the flexibility of the Internet accessed through a browser. The scary thing? We have quite a bit of untapped potential left with respect to the...