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TOPICS

A. Thriving on Turbulence

Top executive focus has rightly shifted from the horizon to what's happening all around us - to the here and now. Yet, we all know that the cycle will turn positive - and the future opportunities are still out there! You must be ready for the upturn and its radical new opportunities, before your future competitors are.

We believe that uncertainty is that moment of perfect (business) freedom and that NOW is the perfect time to think and act differently to build new optimism into the executive & management team - to think about the new paradigms the future will demand and what it will take to succeed in 'the real world' future.

The basic choice facing the executive team is this: Will you manage your way out of 'The Current Mess' or choose to lead the way up the next wave?

Why not spend an hour or two, or a half-day workshop, with one of us from the FutureWorld network exploring this idea in a powerful audio-visual experience?

B. Radical Innovation: Out of the box, straight to the bottom line

Innovation is fast becoming the commercial religion of the 21st century. Everyone’s doing it, so how can you differentiate yourself? What’s makes the difference between evolutionary and breakthrough innovation?

Mankind has always used tools as a means to amplify the body and mind. Our success in this regard has made us the dominant species. Today, massively disruptive technologies provide the possibility to devastate the old business models.

Why does your past success hangs heavily on your shoulders? Why do great companies fail? Why does success tend to breed an inability to innovate, leading to ultimate failure?

C. Ten Lessons from the Future: The future is a matter of choice, not chance

Consumer culture, technology and business – we know what the world was like in the 1960s and 70s, but what is the inevitable future in the next 30 years? In this warp-speed world it is no longer sufficient to learn from experience – we must learn to learn from the future!

This presentation is a roller-coaster ride from the culture of the sixties and seventies, the so-called Age of Aquarius - and the attitudes, products and companies it spawned – to the potential scenarios of the next 3 decades.

What could we have learnt about the future back then? Why did we miss some of the most important new developments such as the personal computer and the impact of the mobile phone? And learning from perfect hindsight, what can we realistically predict for the 2020s?

D. Life 2.0: Work, health and wealth beyond the new technologies

During the past 100 years science and technology has shaped life as-we-know-it and changed it almost beyond belief. Today we stand at the starting line of a new revolution.

New science and an emerging set of new 21st century technologies, embracing NanoTechnology and BioTechnology, are about to alter the way we live and work in fundamental ways that we cannot yet imagine.

There will be bewildering new choices in personal health and wealth. Opportunities for business will explode - those who are prepared to see them as such will turn these opportunities into economic performance - at a personal and national level. Where do you stand? Are you ready to choose your new future?

E. Quantum Relationshops: How to unleash the power of relationships in an uncertain and chaotic world

"People are our most valuable asset" – how often have you heard that platitude – and it may become one of the most powerful corporate delusions of the 20th century. It turns out that ‘relationships’ are your most valuable asset.

Quantum Relationships explores new 21st century perspectives on business and personal relationships – and shows how to apply today’s thought leadership to your business and personal life.

In business, you are increasingly dependent on relationships within your organisation to deliver exceptional customer service. The future of your business depends on effective relationships with your customers, current and new. The delivery of your service promise is increasingly dependent on relationships within a seamless network of business partners. This topic offers a powerful wide-ranging debate, from quantum physics and Buddhist philosophy to the power of diversity, generational differences and practical business lessons.

This topic is based on extracts from the book "The Future of the Corporation" by Wolfgang Grulke and Andy Andrews to be published end 2003.

F. The Fractal Individual: How to reconcile personal power and uncertainty

On the surface you’re...powerful, mobile and nomadic! Inside...you’re afraid, uncertain and chaotic!?

This is how the individual experiences life and work in the world economy – our context appears to be completely fragmented and chaotic – you’re a ‘fractal’ individual in a fractal world. With today's turbulence, if you're not scared then you truly have missed the point! We're surrounded by chaos and uncertainty - there's no time to catch your breath as everything around us changes.

Yet living in the centre of this hurricane...we realize that...never in the history of mankind has the individual had more personal power - as consumer, investor, learner and worker!

G. The Quantum Workplace: How to harness the power of individuals and relationships in a fractal world

How critical to your business are the fundamental shifts taking place in the workplace? How seriously are your people and business partners being affected by the new fractal networked world? Can you improve your competitive position and staff morale while increasing productivity and cutting costs?

The reality is that the next few years will further amplify the individual’s personal power, ever increasing turbulence! Technology connected by the world's digital skin will create massive new options.

So, how can you thrive in the new economy? And, how can your business capitalise on the fractal individual? Can you make your staff and customers resonate in chaotic markets? How do you lead and motivate these new empowered employees? Can you herd all the cats to create alignment and synergy for your bottom line?

This topic takes a journey through the future scenario for knowledge-based organisations and the implications for business and employees. It discusses how companies may operate and interact with their stakeholders – in order to survive and grow.

H. The Economics of Information

This presentation (or workshop) looks at the business implications of the chaotic marriage of information technology and the global de-regulating economy, and asks:

What did the Egyptian gods of order and chaos know that we have still to learn?

What are the challenges presented by the new economic context as we move from 'the economics of scarcity' to the 'economics of plenty'?

What are the implications for policymakers, governments, business and individuals?

I. When Worlds Collide: Technology and Man Converging

Technologies are converging at a frightening pace. With the Internet as the background infrastructure, creating the world’s digital skin that grows ever outward, and technologies like Nano-tech and Bio-tech impacting ever smaller units of the universe, right down to the very building blocks of our genetic code, the future of technology is not what it used to be.

More than we ever thought possible, the convergence of technologies will have a major impact on the way we live, learn, work and do business. Threats will grow, and opportunities will abound. Are you ready?

J. The New Age of Financial Services: An Industry in radical Transformation

Developments along multiple fronts are converging to create the context for electronic commerce and future financial services.

Consumer behaviour, value propositions and service delivery are being transformed by new players that are re-writing the rules of business and markets.

The objective of this module is to enable executive teams to consider the major industry drivers and to debate the potential impact on their business and markets.

K. The Future of the Corporation Fragmented, distributed and interconnected

For more than a hundred years, the corporation has been the primary structure for wealth-creation and wealth-distribution. The corporation was born of the Industrial Economy and modeled on the efficiencies of the machine. It’s hierarchical structure has been shaped and changed by the demands of shareholders and stakeholders to be more responsive to the environment in which it exists.

Today we live in unprecedented volatility and chaos. Most centrally-controlled structures are threatened by fast and nimble networked alternatives. Power is moving from governments and corporations to individuals in their roles as investors, employees and partners. Markets, consumers and individuals are interconnected like never before. Information and knowledge has become a commodity.

What creates value in a fractal and interconnected world? What is the future shape of the corporation? What are the business imperatives today?

This presentation and workshop is based on the upcoming book of the same title by Wolfgang Grulke and Andy Andrews, to be published during 2004.

L. CyberSphereWork, life and everything – when the internet is ubiquitous

Imagine a world here the Internet is everywhere, and in everything. A world where the virtual & physical space is morphed into one, where all the electronic technologies, Internet, payment systems, telephones, computing devices, media channels, security systems, digital personal identities and augmented realities all converge into a single seamless system.

When the infrastructure is ubiquitous and operates as a virtually ‘free’ utility, like water or electricity, we will beyond the current paradigm of cyberspace. What happens when information and knowledge are accessible to all who choose to look? What happens when eBusiness, eHealth, eDemocracy and eLiteracy have become an invisible normality? What happens after cyberspace?

Welcome to the Cybersphere, a world that already exists for anyone that wants to be a part of it – the choice is yours – a world where the physical and digital dimensions become ONE. This presentation explores the outer reaches of our thinking about what will become ‘the norm’ after today’s amazing technologies have become part of our daily business and personal reality.

M. The Mobile Future: Information, skills, jobs, capital and technology – does mobility mean out-of-control chaos, or a plethora of opportunity

21st century markets are being characterized by mobility - of people and jobs; products and services; information and know-how; capital and consumers. As usual in Man's evolution on this planet, our tools and technologies are pushing us headlong into an increasingly mobile future. What are these tools and what impact could they have?

With open borders and interconnectedness come new challenges to organisations, power bases, patents, copyright and privacy. As businesses and individuals we are the both the beneficiaries and the victims of the consequences of these actively open markets. Governments too are being challenged by openness and mobility..... This theme captures radical new thinking about our mobile future and provides sharp business synthesis for executive audiences, challenging your ideas about the future and providing practical links to today's business realities. Plus, some lessons from the mobile future, lessons that you can implement today!

N. China in the 21st Century: Dragon and Dilemma

Today, China is the pre-eminent growth economy, universally feared as a voracious competitor; inscrutable as a market and thoroughly misunderstood. Based on practical insights from FutureWorld's global network, this theme is a powerful audio-visual exploration of Chinas role in the world - the stark current realities of a roaring dragon, the challenging dilemmas and surprising alternate scenarios for the future.

O. Business Lessons from Dinosaurs: Evolution, extinction & the fate of market leaders

Surely there is nothing we can learn about business from pre-history? Or is there? What can we learn about business sustainability from extinction? What always happens to those market leaders who dominate the food chain? This theme builds profound new insights into business and life strategies - full of striking audio-visual imagery - and leaves you with powerful lessons for your future.

P. Quantum Relationships: How to unleash the true power of relationships in a fragmented and interconnected world

"People are our most valuable asset" - that corporate platitude may turn out to have been one of the most powerful corporate delusions of the 20th century. In a fragmented and interconnected world it turns out that relationships, not people, are your most valuable asset - and will become the core differentiator. Quantum Relationships explores new 21st century perspectives on business and personal relationships - how we are moving from HR to QR - and shows how to apply new thought leadership to create quantum value in your business and personal life.

Q. Swarm Creativity: The best way to gain power is to give it away!

As corporate models shift from hierarchical to networked, we need to shift our thinking from command and control to coordinate and cultivate. To survive in today's relentless business environment, businesses ought to be rushing to uncover, nurture, and apply the Swarm Creativity of their Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs. This presentation, based on Peter Gloors work, brings a powerful and practical framework for unlocking and applying the Collaborative Innovation Networks within your organization.

R. The Future of Media, Markets and Brands: Brave New World or Bar-room Brawl

Who'd want to be in media today? It's like the Wild West out there, with punches flying in all directions! But there are critical new lessons from the future for all businesses to be learned from the media brawl, and this is what our latest theme explores. Your markets, marketing and branding will never be the same again. This keynote, or one-day workshop, draws out new insights and new lessons from the future, that point to a very different market-space ahead, no matter what your industry, or if you're in a media business yourself.

S. Getting Elephants to Dance: Quantum Growth: Out of the box, straight to the bottom line

Innovation is easy to talk about, but extremely complex to implement, particularly in a large, complex and successful organization. This brand new theme covers the practical criteria that differentiate successful corporate step-change programs. Learn from the collective experience of winning organizations that succeeded, and from the practitioners who helped them drive this success.