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As part of my work with Dan Rasmus at Microsoft, we're revisiting the scenario planning framework we developed in 2003 (as explained in our book, Listening to the Future) in light of current events. The following few posts will outline my own ''unofficial'' (e.g., not Microsoft-sanctioned) view of potential outcomes to the economic crisis. This ...

Sorry for the long dry spell. I had to recharge the batteries after a busy fall and holiday season. Plus, I'm blogging regularly at Internet Evolution, which absorbs a lot of my spare time. I'm now hoping to get back to a regular blogging schedule here at GenBlend. In the meantime, my colleague and co-author Dan Rasmus has a new piece on the ...

Sorry for the recent low levels of blog activity. In addition to the usual summer doldrums, I've been wrapping up a bunch of projects and tooling up for a busy fall season of writing and speaking. For the past couple of weeks, I have been focused on revising and extending the text of Listening to the Future: Insights from the New World of Work, a ...

Travelling this week on some book-related business. First stop is the ACORD LOMA conference in Las Vegas, where I will be talking about a new study on Millennials, technology and the scramble for young talent in the insurance industry, commissioned by Microsoft from Insurity Research. See the Microsoft Presspass site for more info on the ...

I saw this piece in today's Seattle Times, headlined ''Industrial Work Force Short on Tech Savvy.'' It's yet another reminder that the skills gap is making itself felt in the US economy, sector by sector, even in the midst of a looming recession. Anyone following the manufacturing industry in the age of globalization knows this is true. US ...

Shelly Palmer has a very interesting piece up at the Huffington Post titled ''US Digital Deficiency Jeopardizes Super-Power Status.'' No time to comment at length, but here's a taste: Children born in America this year will be the first true Digital Natives of the Information Age. They will grow up in a time when all of their telecommunications ...

Arthur C. Clarke, one of the great visionaries of science fiction, died yesterday at the age of 90. I remember reading his book Imperial Earth when I was about 12 years old and thinking how cool it was that in the future, everyone walked around with computers about the size of a paperback book that provided communication, access to the ...