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ThrowForward Thursday: Ep 120: Magic Materials, Goretex and playing around
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - October 05, 2023 08:27 - 6 minutesThis is the first full episode of Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday. This season, we will keep the videos shorter, so they can be used in your "Five Minutes from the Future" sessions. And they will be followed (next week) by a discussion guide to help you and your team implement the Futurist Ski...
ThrowForward Thursday 119: Introduction to Season 4
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - September 28, 2023 22:13 - 4 minutesWE ARE BACK! Season 4 of ThrowForward Thursday is here, and it's going to be brilliant. We are going to focus on providing videos that you can use in your "Five Minutes from the Future" meetings, with discussion guides being made available to help you and your team apply the ideas to your busin...
ThrowForward Thursday 118 - Looking for Opportunities in Disruptive Change
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - September 08, 2023 11:15 - 7 minutesThis is the final video in our four part mini series on the disruptive forces shaping our world right now. We call them the "Great Grey Elephants" because they're here - in the room - waiting to be noticed. Instead of reacting with fear and concern, we need to respond with opportunity mindsets a...
ThrowForward Thursday 117: The Perfect Storm of Change (Part 2)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - September 01, 2023 18:07 - 15 minutesIn our mini-series on the high impact, hugely disruptive but often overlooked forces shaping our world (we call them the "Grey Elephants" in the corner of your office), we look at: 4. Big Squeezes 5. Angry People 6. Multipolarity 7. Intelligent Assistance I hope you're enjoyin...
ThrowForward Thursday 116: Facing a Perfect Storm of Change (Part 1)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - August 24, 2023 20:18 - 11 minutesHere is a very short summary of some of the research our team has been doing on the seven most significant disruptive forces shaping the world right now. In this episode we look at the first three: aging, angry planet and inequality. We will come back to the other four next week. Don't just thi...
ThrowForward Thursday 115: Introducing the "Great Grey Elephants"
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - August 18, 2023 13:40 - 5 minutesWe are taking a break from our regular weekly format of looking at "news bulletins from the future" and learning to "think like a futurist" (we will be back with Season 4 in September). Here is part 1 of a three-week mini-series sharing the work our team is doing on uncovering the most significa...
ThrowForward Thursday 114: Season 3 Highlights
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - August 11, 2023 11:43 - 10 minutesThis is the last episode of Season 3, and we look back at my five favourite episodes, including SaaS, CRISPR, Deep Fakes and an update of me being brought to life by AI tech (you may want to check out the video of this one: jump to 4:30 here: https://youtu.be/WNNHzh3kFrQ ). I also give a quick t...
ThrowForward Thursday 113: Rethink and Unlearn Your Life in an Aging World
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - August 03, 2023 16:08 - 6 minutesIf you are going to live a LOT longer than you think, it needs to change a lot of your life choices and goals. If you might be married for 100 years, or your career needs to last for 80, how would impact the decisions you make? Living longer doesn't just mean living the lives we're living now b...
ThrowForward Thursday 112: The Age of Grandparents
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - July 28, 2023 14:10 - 6 minutesOne of the biggest societal implications of people living longer is that the ratio of grandparents to grandchildren is now higher than its ever been before (including great-grandchildren as well, of course). And since grandparents are more healthy and 'younger' than grandparents have ever been, ...
ThrowForward Thursday 111: ESG, XaaS and Platform Play Business Models
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - July 20, 2023 06:58 - 8 minutesIn last week's episode, we highlighted the Japan Airlines experiment of providing rented clothes to tourists. Today, we look at the business models underlying that experiment, and what our businesses should be thinking about in relation to ESG, SaaS and Platform Plays.
ThrowForward Thursday 110: No Luggage Needed - Rent some clothes for the holidays
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - July 13, 2023 10:01 - 2 minutesJapan Airlines are starting an experiment where holiday makers going to Japan do not take any luggage with them, but instead rent their clothes for the holiday on arrival in Japan. Would you be keen to try this?
ThrowForward Thursday 109: How to Think Like a Futurist ABOUT DATA
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - July 06, 2023 14:25 - 5 minutesThis is a sample of the full length session on the power and importance of data, and the three things you and your team should be doing NOW with data to future-proof your businesses. For the full session, sign up now for Graeme Codrington's Future Club: http://www.JoinTheFuturesClub.com The T...
ThrowForward Thursday 108: AI and Astronomy
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - June 29, 2023 16:45 - 6 minutesAstronomers gather an astounding amount of data every day (well, mainly at night) in the form of photographs, radio, audio and spectral analysis from every part of the universe. You've no doubt seen the high resolution photos. To analyse all of this data we need to use machine learning and prop...
ThrowForward Thursday 107: How to NOT have a REALLY bad day
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - June 23, 2023 07:31 - 9 minutesIn last week's ThrowForward Thursday episode we looked at one of the truly BAD days in history, 60 million years ago when a meteor hit Mexico and 75% of life on earth was wiped out. Bad... that's an understatement. We looked at NASA is doing to make sure that doesn't happen while we are here. Wa...
ThrowForward Thursday 106: NASA shoots a rocket into an asteroid to save the world
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - June 15, 2023 12:14 - 4 minutesIn September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft deliberately collided with a small moonlet, Dimorphos more than 7 million miles away from earth. It successfully changed its trajectory, and proved that we can use this approach to deal with future threatening asteroids...
ThrowForward Thursday 105: AI Virtual Assistants - what they'll really be like and why we don't have them yet
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - June 08, 2023 15:07 - 6 minutesWe know that AI is coming. This year has shown us a vision of what's possible with Generative AI - but these technologies are not going to deliver on this visions. I say that confidently - they are not really AI. In fact, they might tempt some businesses into really bad decisions about how they ...
BONUS: Strategic Issues with Generative AI: What leaders need to know about ChatGPT, Bard and Bing
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - June 05, 2023 20:47 - 16 minutesThere is so much hype and noise around Generative AI (ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, etc) at the moment. We need to cut through this to make sure we make the most of it for our teams and businesses. If you don't know what the Gartner's Hype Cycle looks like, check out the image at https://en.wikipedia.o...
ThrowForward Thursday 104: Architects of the Future
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - June 01, 2023 15:13 - 9 minutesLet's jump just a few years into the future, where architects are incorporating real time data analytics to dramatically improve their human-centric designs, and are incorporating AI assistants into their professional offices. I think that AI taking over from human architects is a long way of...
ThrowForward Thursday 103: Lessons in Innovation from the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - May 25, 2023 08:29 - 8 minutesThis is part 2 of our look at CRISPR gene editing technology. See Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/zA5_QX3MoMg Today, we take a look behind the scenes at how CRISPR-Cas9 was developed, and the lessons we can learn for innovation in our own companies. This is a SAMPLE of the full episode, which is...
ThrowForward Thursday 102: CRISPR - Editing DNA for a better future
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - May 18, 2023 15:40 - 7 minutesThe 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Jennifer Doudna and Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work on the gene editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9. This gives us the ability to change the DNA of any living thing, from plants and animals to humans. The applications are enorm...
ThrowForward Thursday 101: How to build scenarios for the future
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - May 11, 2023 16:58 - 11 minutesLast week, I shared "21 Predictions for the year 2123" (see https://bit.ly/21for2123). Today, we go behind the scenes and discover the two tools I used to select these scenarios, as we learn to think like a futurist. I'll show you the importance of a framework for horizon scanning, and then, if...
The WEF Future Jobs Report 2023 - Futures Club Teaser
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - May 09, 2023 13:24 - 14 minutesThis special edition of Graeme Codrington's Future of Work podcast is produced in collaboration with the Futures Club. This is the first half of the podcast, giving you a teaser of what is available to members of the Futures Club. Sign up for the Futures Club now to get the rest of this podcast:...
ThrowForward Thursday 100: 21 Predictions for the World of 2123
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - May 05, 2023 13:20 - 21 minutesFor our special 100th episode of ThrowForward Thursday, we jump forward a century and imagine 21 scenarios of what life might be like. This is one episode where you might enjoy the video more, as we have included a lot of relevant graphics and images: Join Graeme Codrington's Futures Club...
ThrowForward Thursday 99: Futures Club Teaser: What we can learn from the Ocean Cleanup Project
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - April 27, 2023 07:07 - 10 minutesWhat we can learn from the Ocean Cleanup Project about innovation through ridiculous ideas, experimentation and being a force for good. Members of my Futures Club will get access to the full video, but for everyone else, here is an extended 'teaser' which I am sure you will find useful. Prof....
ThrowForward Thursday 98: The Ocean CleanUp Project
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - April 20, 2023 21:20 - 4 minutesOur waterways and oceans are being polluted at unprecedented rates. But there are some glimmers of hope - one of those is The Ocean CleanUp Project, started by a young man, Boyan Slat. They've just announced that they've removed more than 200 tons of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch....
ThrowForward Thursday 96: Announcing our new Futures Club
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - April 06, 2023 14:52 - 4 minutesToday’s ThrowForward Thursday is an exciting announcement about a new resource just for you: Graeme Codrington’s Futures Club. Most of my work is with senior leaders in large corporates, but I know that so many more people could find it valuable. I help people to anticipate disruptive chan...
ThrowForward Thursday 95: Fake Media with AI - three things for you to do
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - March 30, 2023 14:32 - 14 minutesThis is the application session following last week's video on how AI is being used to create fake pictures, audio and video (see https://youtu.be/W0TGnyB5EgE ). This week, we look at the business opportunity of verifying the authenticity of media, and the importance of protecting your brand ...
ThrowForward Thursday 94: Fake News With AI
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - March 23, 2023 20:16 - 5 minutesCan you believe what you see and hear these days? Literally - can you believe it... when we know how good generative AI is at producing fake photos, audio and even video. This goes well beyond Deep Fakes (something we looked at in Episode 4, see https://bit.ly/TFTDeepFake) which is about mimicki...
ThrowForward Thursday 93: Drones application (do more than just improve what you've always done)
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - March 16, 2023 07:29 - 12 minutesDrones are developing at a remarkable pace, moving well beyond the small flying cameras we use to take great holiday videos. They are now being used in a multitude of industries, and I am sure can be used in your business somewhere. In order to be able to imagine how you could use drones, yo...
ThrowForward Thursday 92: Drones - everywhere, doing much more than you imagine
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work - March 09, 2023 13:36 - 6 minutesWe might think of drones as toys, and maybe as a way to take great videos or entertain the kids. But today's drones are being used in a multitude of industries for more applications than most people can imagine. Have a look not just at what might happen in the future, but how drones are being us...
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