Last week I spoke to the Travel and Tourism Research Association on alternative futures for travel and tourism. It was the 40th Annual Conference of the association, held in Honolulu, and my appearance was coordinated by Goldstar Speakers. The key slides from my brief program are available for download via Slideshare.
I asked where [...]

Last week included four eventful days at the annual Future In Review conference put on by the Strategic News Service. This year, the last at the San Diego Del Coronado was the best of the five I have attended, of the eight that have been held. (full disclosure – I am on [...]

I had the opportunity to hear Peter Senge speak last week at the Northwest Leadership Summit, sponsored by Center for Leadership Formation in the Albers School of Business at Seattle University. The theme of the event was an exploration of how companies around the world and locally are leading the change from “business as usual.”
I [...]

My year as a consulting futurist and speaker began on January 8, 2009 with a speech on future trends for Cobalt, a company that does websites and other marketing and computer services for the auto-dealer community, historically General Motors dealerships. They obviously face some big challenges in 2009.
In that speech I said, for the [...]

Yesterday, on April 1, 2009, not as an April Fools Day gag but as a serious forecast I posted my Quarterly Forecast for 2009 Q2, titled “Economic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery.” As far back as my 2009 annual Outlook article and video for 2009, I have run counter to the prevailing wisdom on [...]

A topic on everyone’s mind is how long the current recession will last? That this recession is steeper and deeper than any since the early 1980’s, and it looks now like any since the Depression, is becoming fact. But when do we turn around?
I have been addressing this question and the economic meltdown [...]

Behavioral targeting of advertising has been around for a long time. The seriousness of this game was increased when Google bought Double-Click a couple of years ago. In the last two weeks there was a flurry of news as Google announced an escalation of this approach to advertising. Google is testing enhanced [...]

On March 6, 2009 I had the opportunity to present a keynote on the future of insurance for Explore Information Services, a unit of USIS. This was a meeting of their advisory forum, a group of about thirty North American insurance companies that focus on property and automobile insurance. My job was [...]

With AIG dominating the American news right now, one wonders two things.
First, the national media, and now the blog-o-sphere, increasingly behave as one – chasing the latest shark in the water. Nate Silver lays out how it happens. No question that AIG bonuses are the sharks of March 2009. But is that [...]

An article for which I was interviewed, “twenty inventions for the next 10 years,” originally appearing in Business Week as part of the Innovations of the Future piece by Damian Joseph, has been picked up by both Yahoo Finance, and interestingly, translated and picked up in Vietnam, in Saigon Online. Check them out in [...]