ArchivesTag : Glen Hiemstra
Underwater view is not clear
If you missed it today, this underwater diving expedition for ABC news by Philippe Cousteau Jr. and Sam Champion is worth watching. I have a foreboding that humans will sacrifice just about anything to acquire the last drops of oil, no matter the risks or the alternatives. I am not sure why we are so [...]
Full StoryFuture of Energy
I just finished a day of consulting with GHD Engineering in Kuala Lumpur (I am doing a long range planning project with them) and we discussed, among many trends, the future of energy. As I flew back and forth I was reading the recent book by James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren. In it he [...]
Full StoryWorkforce Health 2010: New Deal, New Dividend
This week I am in San Diego to attend and provide a closing keynote to the Employee Health Care Conference, a program of the Conference Board and Coopers and Towers Watson. In February we presented the same event in New York. My topic is 21st Century Health Care. While health care reform was up in [...]
Full StoryThe Future of Outsourcing
Recently I had the chance to sit down with Kate Vitasek, author of the new book, Vested Outsourcing, with Mike Ledyard and Karl Manrodt. Outsourcing is a controversial but fundamental business activity – as Kate notes Peter Drucker used to say “Do what you do best and outsource the rest,” and the idea of finding [...]
Full StoryFuturist.com Launches New-Look Website
Today marked the successful launch of the new look for Futurist.com, my home as a futurist speaker and consultant. This new WordPress-based theme provides a cleaner and up-to-date interface, and robust options in continuing to improve the user experience. I am particularly pleased that we’ve been able to better organize the blog and the older [...]
Full StoryRight on Economic Growth
Now and then it is nice, as a futurist, to see that something you forecast and expected is coming to fruition, especially when what you said ran counter to a lot of common wisdom. Two economic announcements today confirm what I was saying about Microsoft in the middle of last year, and about the U.S. [...]
Full StoryFuture of Health Care Reform in U.S. Now
The standard chorus today, following a win by Senator Elect Brown in Massachusetts, is that health care reform is either dead, or must be substantially revised to be passed into law. I don’t know that it is dead, but it is on life support. Somehow, in the very long process of developing the current legislation, [...]
Full StoryOur Future In Space
I grew up in space. Not literally, obviously, but in my sense of future possibilities. When Colliers and other magazines in the 1950’s featured the Von Braun space station on their covers – the great wheel in space that became an iconic image – this locked in for me a life-long interest in space exploration. [...]
Full StoryFuture of Sports – quoted in New York Times
Among several New Year articles for which I was interviewed, and which I’ll summarize tomorrow in addition to laying out my outlook for 2010, this New York Times article by Harvey Araton stands out. Mr. Araton is a features columnist who asked what may happen with pro sports in the next decade. See “2020 Vision.”
Full StoryPodcast of Glen Hiemstra Keynote on Systems Change
In mid-October 2009 I gave a closing keynote speech to the 2009 Institute for Oral Health conference on defining quality. They had asked me to address the question of how one goes about promoting systems change. The podcast of my talk is now available here. To provide some insight on making systems change, I went [...]
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