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...
by Minter Dial | Oct 11, 2017 | Futureproof, Leadership
The average lifespan of a publicly traded company continues to fall. Depending on who you listen to, the number is now below 18 years. That number has dropped from 61 in 1958 and 25 in 1980. That’s what was reported in this 2012 Innosight study. Richard Foster, a...
by Minter Dial | Oct 10, 2017 | Collaboration, Futureproof
As consumers can whip out their phones to get instant, on-demand access to products and services they want, we’re seeing a shift in thinking from ownership to access. It’s almost expected at this point. If your business can’t offer something to compete with this...
