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Forbes: Create Strategic Luck In 2023
As the new year kicks off, we all want to know what the future holds. Futurist pundits are sharing their trends lists. While they grab our attention, they don’t provide actual insight. Really useful insight, the kind that games luck, requires understanding your...
HBR China: Top Business Trends for 2023
There is so much that goes on at the surface level of the news we see about China. Zero-Covid The post Zero-Covid world Spy balloons The Hu Jintao hijinx at the Party Congress. When we get fixated on what’s now and we ignore what's next. The reality is that we can...
Forbes: AI Is Creating A Post-Truth World
What is truth? I thought that was a great question to ask ChatGPT, the new AI project from OpenAI. For a moment, I was amazed and then I was terrified.
Business Futurist Jonathan Brill Discusses the AI Era and Rewiring the Enterprise
Excerpt from the original CanadianSME post: Episode 11 of Digital Disruption, Info-Tech Research Group’s popular podcast, features business futurist and expert Jonathan Brill. In a discussion with host Geoff Nielson, the episode explores the rise of the “octopus...
Autodesk Quotes Jonathan on the Risks and Rewards of Innovation in Engineering & Manufacturing
An excerpt from the Autodesk article "Balancing the risks and rewards of innovation in engineering and manufacturing" by Zach Mortice: Innovation in any field, especially in fast-moving industries like tech or product design, comes with inherent risk—and the...
Autodesk Interviews Jonathan About Preparing for AI on Your Org Chart
Reposted from Autodesk 8 Future-Proofing Business Strategies From Jonathan Brill Changes in technology and global conditions are accelerating. Futurist Jonathan Brill offers 8 future-proofing business strategies to help AEC firms thrive. By Sarah Jones The Industrial...
Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson: What AI Can Never Understand
Jonathan sits down with Geoff Neilson on the Digital Disruption podcast to explore what leaders need to do to survive and thrive through the next decade of accelerating technological disruption. They discuss why the traditional organizational model introduced in the...
TKC Podcast: AI-Driven Strategies for Future-Proofing Your Business
Imagine an environment where unexpected connections and controlled chaos lead to breakthrough innovation—well, it does exist, and it’s all thanks to AI. What does it take for a business to thrive amid constant change? Jonathan shared insights on how artificial...
TKC Podcast: Building Your Ideal Future with AI
What if the disruption provoked by AI technologies wasn’t the end—but the beginning of your biggest opportunities? From AI and the metaverse to creating strategies for industry shifts, Jonathan shares how to future-proof your events, spark creativity, and turn chaos...
SXSW: Four Tools to See Tomorrow
https://vimeo.com/696331684
Jonathan Brill Speaks at the Global Peter Drucker Forum
https://vimeo.com/653845641
Future Proofing Your Business in our Rogue Wave Era at TEDxSantaBarbaraSalon
TED recently posted an interview with Mark Sylvester on their website, where we discuss future-proofing your business in our rogue wave era. A huge honor! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC1oiyBxXkI
Resilience is your new strategy for growth.
This must-read survival guide provides the predictive tools you need to take advantage of randomness, turn chaos into profit, and set your company on the course for long-term success.
At this moment, rogue waves are forming under your business. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends―the undercurrents of radical, systemic change―are crashing into each other. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. If your competitor can’t ride out the next wave and you can, you win.
In Rogue Waves, Jonathan Brill―a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision making under uncertainty―shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals.
Drawing on years of experience as a Fortune 50 innovation executive, advisor, and entrepreneur, Brill delivers a practical action plan to:
- Identify and capitalize on the 10 economic, technological, and social trends that will collide to reshape your business
- Turn sudden threats into outsized opportunities
- Create a culture of entrepreneurship and experimentation
- Build and scale leadership skills and processes to supercharge your company’s agility and adaptability
An actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.
A profound contribution to the science of decision making and the psychology of leadership.
Rogue Waves’ powerful tools have repeatedly helped us get out in front of change.