Creating Enterprising Minds
Part 2: Overpopulation: Leveraging Entrepreneurs’ Greatest Asset
Overpopulation is the difference between overall birth and death rates in populations. As a rule of thumb, if the number of children born each year equals the number of adults that die, it is fair to deduce that the overall population size will stabilise. However,…
Part 1: Overpopulation: Causes, Effects and Opportunities
For three decades, the world celebrates the World Population Day on the 11th of July. This celebration aims to turn the world’s attention on the importance of population issues. According to a 2017 UN report, current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach…
Solving the Society’s Problems is Now Businesses’ Business
In an article published by Reuters back in April, it was reported that as businesses with a mission to do good become increasingly trendy, social entrepreneurs said they were finding it harder than ever to tackle one of their major problems—explaining what they do. In…
Future Workplace Realities
The workplace of the future will be an environment where technology advancement aids diverse working ability and skills. In short, the workplace of the future is all about the future of people. By creating an inclusive workplace—a team of people can thrive in and be…
Learning from Movies Inspired by Future Shocks
“To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots – religion, nation, community, family, or profession –…
Part 3: Predicting the Unpredictable
Areas of impact: Governance and generational divides The future is arriving sooner than we think. Truth be told, technological disruption’s imperial change will be hard to escape, even for the biggest of organisations. Changes in the pecking order provide some of the most formidable cautionary…
Part 2: Predicting the Unpredictable
Areas of impact: Climate change and resource scarcity, IoT and increasing cost of living Undoubtedly, climate economic and resource scarcity will put a severe strain on the earth’s limited supply of minerals, water, fuel, and other natural resources. For businesses, the balancing act will…
Part 1: Predicting the Unpredictable
Futures thinking to prepare ourselves for all future possibilities. How trends of today impact society in the future. Today, predictive tools are widely used to get a jump on future advantages. In practice, for eons, humankind have been attempting to predict the future. Our obsession…
Future tense: AR a critical change catalyst to help us improve food security
In a world of limited resources, rising concerns about sustainability is a matter of serious urgency. Last year, scientists in China developed several types of rice that can be grown in seawater, potentially creating enough food for 200 million people. Over the past years, researchers…
Society 5.0: Reconciling social and business interests
What is Society 5.0? Enhancing technology application to improve well-being Given that previous iterations of society 1.0 to 4.0 had been largely shaped by agricultural cultivation and industrialisation, Society 5.0, by design, isn’t just another revamp. In short, it simply takes full advantage of what…
