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Reshaping the Future of Manufacturing: The Transformative Value of AI

AI is reshaping manufacturing by boosting efficiency, reducing costs, and solving labor and supply chain challenges. Learn how manufacturers can harness AI to stay competitive and future-ready in a rapidly evolving global landscape.

TLNT: The Risks of Getting Risk Management Wrong

TLNT: The Risks of Getting Risk Management Wrong

Nearly all business risks can be sorted into one of four categories: financial, operational, external, and strategic. Typically, senior managers are tasked with looking out for financial, external, and strategic risks — with good reason. Over a 20-year period, these...

Forbes Reviews Rogue Waves

Forbes Reviews Rogue Waves

Excerpted from the Forbes article "Rogue Waves, And How They Drive Both Peril And Profit" by Steve Wunker: Jonathan Brill, recently the global futurist at HP (who is also a Forbes contributor), helped lay that company’s strategy for resilient growth, and it...

Forbes Profiles Jonathan Brill

Forbes Profiles Jonathan Brill

An excerpt from the Forbes article "Four Consequences From Today’s Global Internet Outages For Business Planning" by Steve Wunker: …businesses need to plan for discontinuities, and not just in the sense of risk-mitigation. These events also create opportunities....

What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova

What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova

Jonathan discusses anticipating disruption and Rogue Waves on the What's Next! with Tiffani Bova podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SFsVQ796NAPD9lxn2BKXj?si=200e96d3367a4634

Rogue Waves: Life After COVID–19

Rogue Waves: Life After COVID–19

Today, we are obsessed with the pandemic, but it will have lasting effects long after you are gone. What do they mean for your business? https://vimeo.com/400505034

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