In corporate computing there are often little silos of information everywhere – and Near Futurist Guy Clapperton should know, he’s been writing about how they’re coming to an end since 1989. Here Matt Klassen of Cherwell Software calls in from LA to discuss how to avoid ending up with your corporate systems dictating to the company rather than the other way around.
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Digital humans and their organizations
Near Futurist Guy Clapperton interviews authors Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones about their new book, “Alive: digital humans and their organizations”, taking in a bit of automation, a lot of leadership and management offerings and a very small amount of boating technology.
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Large retail, yachting and shoe shops
How often do you look outside your own industry? Graham Jones does and it’s a good way of making sure you don’t fall behind. In this episode, Near-Futurist Guy Clapperton talks to him about how to keep up to date when your company employs thousands, whether the middle-aged are as Internet-savvy as they claim and why a 1960s boutique in Tooting is still up to date.
Education and work – how are they changing?
Are we teaching our kids the right things and to ask the right questions? When the Near-Futurist Guy Clapperton and this episode’s interviewee Dave Coplin, late of Microsoft and now with The Envisioners, were growing up, you weren’t allowed to use a calculator in a maths exam. Are we doing the same with different technologies now? And how do we adapt a workforce to a changing world?
Guy and Dave mull the issues over.
How human can we be?
Near-Futurist Guy Clapperton talks to cognitive neuroscientist and business psychologist Dr. Lynda Shaw in this new podcast dedicated to looking at shorter term predictions for the future.
If machines are doing things so well, how do we compete – or should we? Dr. Shaw has a few ideas on what makes us unique as humans.
Your skill set and your technology
Dr. Nicola Millard of BT, in conversation with Near-Futurist Guy Clapperton, discusses chatbots and how they are taking menial tasks away, expanding working lives and the impact of artificial intelligence and human augmentation on the workplace.
Nicola Millard has been forecasting trends for BT since the 1990s.
The Near-Futurist
Guy Clapperton talks to Adrian Cannon of Witstock about why the way we pay for things needs fixing, what’s happening about it and what businesses and individuals need to do to be ready.