Alternate Futures® Scenario Planning Finds Clarity in the Chaos
Alternate Futures® Scenario Planning allows leaders to “stand in the future” to test and experience the opportunities, risks, and consequences of various courses of...
The Future of Sports Entertainment
Sport entertainment environments, players, fans, and participation mechanisms are changing dramatically and reshaping the sports entertainment economy.
Spotlight Session with Beth Comstock from Future Shock Forum
Deb Westphal talks with Beth Comstock about the organizational transformation she led at GE through the rediscovery of the company culture.
An Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis for Smarter Military Investments
The Department of Defense (DOD) is revising its military R&D and investment strategies to pursue more future value. This is the right approach.
Here Are the Disruptive Technologies That Will Reshape Your Business
We explore what disruptive technology really means and how your business can understand and plan for the changes it will bring in 2019.
The Future of Work and Workforce Agility
The future of work and workforce agility is uncertain, but not unknowable. Important changes in the environment htat directly impact the workforces of all...
How Cities Should Prepare for Smart Environments
With increasing volume and velocity, smart city technologies and autonomous vehicles are reshaping the structure of our cities and how we live and work...
Disruption 2030: The Drivers Shaping the Future
We collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate to explore future threats and technology disruptions over the next...
Societal Collision is the Future of Innovation
Points where opposing ideas come to a head can be clashes for dominance or opportunity for progress. The future of innovation will happen at...
The Measurable Lasting Value of a Simple Strategy
This simple four-step strategy approach helps to identify the path you need to take, which informs the strategy you need to build. Each step...
The Social Impact of Demassification and Desynchronization
Media distrust is a symptom of desynchronization and demassification. AI to speed fact checking and blockchain to track and verify sources can help restore...
Organizational Decision-Making in the Knowledge Age
Modern organizational decision-making has moved from mechanization to collaborative, data-driven, and human-centered to produce agile, effective, personalized solutions.
Why Leaders are Failing to Embrace Disruptive Technology (and How to Fix the Problem)
Many leaders embracing disruptive technologies focus on solving the wrong problems. Four questions can help them empower their people to meet the future head-on.
Humanizing AI: From Data-Driven Decisions to Insight-Driven Wisdom
Swarm AI augments machine learning and human intelligence to arrive at better decisions and predictions by harnessing the collective mind of a group of...
Infographic: The Future of Disruptive Technology
Toffler Associates’ perspective on the Future of Disruptive Technology is derived from our understanding of drivers shaping the future, insights from interviews with wide...
How to Engage AI in Organizational Decision Making
Organizations face constant revision to the decision making process – here’s how leaders can engage data and Artificial Intelligence to enhance resources and roles.
The Experience Economy Comes Full Circle
The Experience Economy is coming full circle as customer experience focuses on satisfying fundamental human needs and personalized wants.
Welcome to the Fourth Wave? Cognitive Tech and AI are Reshaping Humanity
With the emergence of cognitive technology, augmented reality, AI and other bleeding edge innovations, humanity may be evolving toward the Fourth Wave.
Preparing Cities for Smart Technology and Autonomous Vehicles
Urban areas striving to prepare for smart technologies and autonomous vehicles should look broadly at how to turn uncertainty into competitive advantage.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: 4 Steps to Navigating Data for Business Success
Future business success will rely on the ability to use personal data to customize the experience for every individual. Businesses must consider more than...
Is Your Organization Prepared to Adopt Disruptive Technology?
With disruptive technologies forcing leaders to rethink their organization, change management is a smart way to discern the roles of strengthening and growth efforts.
Technology has Exposed the Gap Between Wealth and Poverty
The gap between wealth and poverty is widening, and technology is exposing the haves to the have-nots. We explore the impact of the shift...
Perfect Innovation is a Dangerous Myth
The traditional notion of perfection is the enemy of modern reality. In an environment where time is compressed, great innovation is not fixed –...
Take Care of Your People if You Want Your Organization to Thrive
How leaders enable the total wellbeing of their people has great relevance to the health, competitive position, and long-term success of their organization.
The Risk of Neglecting Human Value in the Innovation Solution
This is why, in seeking solutions in technology innovation systems and neglecting the value of their human workforce, organizations put their future at risk.
Big Teaming is a Solution to the World’s Toughest Challenges
Big Teaming is a legitimate approach to engaging broad, disparate collaborative structures to envision, facilitate, and create progress around global issues
Why You Need to Conduct an Organizational Innovation Assessment
Similar to engaging Myers-Briggs to place people, an organizational innovation assessment using a shared framework will improve progress efficiency & outcomes.
AI is Worthless in the Absence of Human Judgment
Integrating cognitive technologies like AI, leaders must keep human talent in focus for the organization to optimize new information outputs and found time.
The Most Important Resource for C-Level Leaders is Human
As leaders strive to satisfy immediate and future opportunities and challenges, the demand for intelligent, empowered knowledge workers is greater than ever.
Why Crowdsourcing May Be the World’s Greatest Shared Asset
As more of the world’s population is connected and AI becomes a contributing global citizen, crowdsourcing stands to become the powerful shared asset we...
Your New Year’s Resolution to Change is Too Limited
As we start another new year, we consider how transformation and change are different, and why change is limited but vital to creating fundamental...
How to Harness Talent and Build Great Teams
Organizational wealth is generated through and harnessed by knowledgeable individuals. This is how to empower your teams to generate intelligence and value.
Why Kindergarteners Always Win the Marshmallow Challenge
The Knowledge Era workforce faces broad, cross-industry issues so our education system must shift from linear thinking to teaching kids to think critically.
Empowering the Global Workforce One Individual at a Time
This is what your organization must do to shift paradigms to engage the right talent in harmonized teams that can support a strong global...
How Can Blockchain Help You Create and Protect Value?
The advent of blockchain has already - and will continue to - disrupted how many organizations do business. Are you prepared to adapt?
How Can We Gain Clarity in the Geopolitical Chaos?
As geopolitical shifts continue to grow and expand their impact globally, successful leaders are defining a value ecosystem from within their organization.
What is the Right Education for the Emerging Global Workforce?
It’s time to re-think standardized education and consider what a Third Wave model looks like as we prepare the future workforce for the global...
Are You Certain You’re Prepared for Unpredictable Threat?
The future of global threat protection lies in our ability to build a unified, predictive security ecosystem (knowledge, security technology, and innovation).
Bio-Digital Convergence: The Human as Critical Infrastructure?
As bio-digital convergence advances from IoT to Internet of Humans (IoH), humans are Critical Infrastructure that must be approached with regard to possibility and...
Why it’s Change or Die in the Brave New Biodigital World
Third Wave disruptions like biodigital convergence are forcing organizations and the people in them to fight against the natural human resistance to change.
Finding Your Place in the Innovation Ecosystem
To thrive in the innovation ecosystem, organizations must adopt a transformation mindset and build an agility framework that allows for collaboration and flexibility.
Balancing Privacy and Security in the Pokémon Go Era
As cyber and terrorist attacks become regular news and Pokémon Go has people hunting dragons, we must find balance between personal privacy and collective...
Do You Know How to Structure Your Horizontal Organization?
Understand the qualities of a horizontal organization and the steps necessary to create a model that empowers team members to higher levels of contribution.
The Knowledge Age Organization Has No Ladder
The hyperconnectivity, globalization, and data in the Knowledge Age are forcing public and private entities shift to a horizontal organization for agility.
New Thinking Never Gets Old: The Innovation Mandate
The pace and scale of innovation is forcing individuals, organizations and societies to transform, not just to Future Proof®, but to survive.
How to Combat Threat with a Risk-Informed Cultural Mindset
As the threat universe expands, organizations must move past security compliance checklists to adopt a custom risk-informed cultural mindset. This is why.
The Art and Science of Wargaming
Wargaming is a vital exercise for military and commercial organizations to test concepts and strategies in a low-cost, low-risk environment through simulation.
Organizational Learning is the Key to Solving 21st Century Issues
Organizational learning usually happens via individual or collective endeavors. In the 21st Century, collective holds the greatest potential for progress. See why.
The Deep Fundamentals of War
As today’s wars have shown, future war will not be limited to defined geographies or governed by historic rules so our approach to warfare...
Stability and Jeopardy: The Impact of IoT on National Infrastructure
The convergence of devices and humans is reshaping how we live, and we must carefully manage every implication of integrating IoT into our critical...
Innovation is the Father of Necessity
Toffler Associates examines what it takes to clarify innovation and build an ecosystem within the organization to support a process of successful disruption.
The Great Compromise: Balancing Security and Innovation
In light of the Bowman Avenue Dam story, Toffler Associates weighs the tradeoff between privacy & innovation, & what steps we must take to...
Workforce Knowledge is Key to Protecting Infrastructure
As the lines between traditional infrastructure sectors blur, it’s more vital than ever to prioritize the workforce in innovation and security discussions.
Exploring a New Image of the Future Proof® SME at Beyond SG50
Toffler Associates led a conversation at Beyond SG50 in Singapore to help SMEs clarify what it means to be Future Proof® in the rapidly...
A Future Focus: What 2015 Means for 2025
As we move from 2015, Toffler Associates looks at why it’s more appropriate than ever to observe how the world is evolving, and to...
Can Innovation Restore the US Infrastructure?
When we compare the level of focus put on new innovation to the needs of the US infrastructure, it’s apparent we need a way...
Technology and Pace of Innovation Demand a New Leadership Approach
Why leaders must consider the role of desynchronization on key issues and industries, and how they are managing the varying rates change to build...
With Space Commercialization, the Next Frontier is the New Normal
The commercialization of space that took hold in the 1990s is today’s new normal, bringing government and private organizations together to secure new frontiers.
The Rise of the Machine: Do Humans Have a Place in Security?
In contrast to humans, machines are compliant. In the coming years, we may find ourselves with a new set of problems as machines become...
5 Signs Your Org Needs Futures & Foresight
Future-focused strategic planning minimizes risks and creates opportunities Over the past two decades businesses and organizations have reduced their planning horizons to just a few...
The Future of Smart Cities
A smart city is defined as an urban development that integrates information and communication technology (ICT) and the Internet of things (IoT) technology to manage...
Creating a Sustainable Culture of Innovation
Change or die. Disrupt or be disrupted. Innovation is not a new concept. Yet compelling forces in today’s rapidly changing, competitive environment make it nothing...
Space: Revolutionary Wealth
The exploding demand for data, bandwidth, and access to technology is putting a commensurate level of stress on the world’s resources and critical infrastructure. It...
The Future of Innovation: Transforming Today’s Organizations into Tomorrow’s Value Creators
Innovation is not a new concept. Adages like "change or die" have long been adhered to in the business world. However, the rapid pace of...
Exploring Potential Futures by Imagining If…
"Exploring potential futures” is a phrase we often use to describe our futures and foresight process that helps organizations understand, prepare for, and even...
Making Sound Corporate Security Decisions Means Empowering Your CISO
Empowering your organization's CISO to have a greater role in security as a whole, rather than just cybersecurity, protects the business.
A Compliance Mindset Leaves Your Workforce Woefully Unprepared for Cybersecurity
Compliance training alone still leaves your organization vulnerable; behavioral nudges and metrics that matter can enhance security.
What Your CISO Wants You to Know
CISOs from different industries - energy, finance, entertainment, technology - share concerns related to workforce vulnerabilities and how rethinking security enhances value.
Climate Scenario Analysis and TCFD Reporting
A CEO writes from 2030 to share what the company got right by embracing TCFD and using scenario planning to make climate-friendly decisions in...
TCFD Report Becomes a Fortune 100 Company’s 10-year Plan
How the VP of sustainability at a top 10 Fortune 100 Company transformed TCFD reporting from “just a checklist” into a 10-year strategic imperative.