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A Look at Education, Culture and Wellness in the Future Workplace

The Future of Work is a buzz phrase. If you want proof, Google search it – you’ll get approximately 468 million hits. It’s also a prevalent topic for consulting and advisory firms (natch), employment...

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Investing in Shared Citizenship

Every day we wake up with headlines that describe the immense difficulties we face as a society. We hear about issues with infrastructure, health care, societal expectations, technological...

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Cyber Risk To Your Organization's Future Value

Cloud computing, artificial intelligence, mixed reality (augmented and virtual reality), blockchain, and even cryptocurrencies are emerging as pillars of any enterprise transformation. This has...

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7 Key Disruptions Organizations Should Consider for 2018

Toffler Associates keeps an ever-present eye toward the future. An important step in the process of identifying and contextualizing predictions is taking the time to consider the current environment,...

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How to Ensure the Successful Implementation of Change

How often do we hear about an organization that is going through, coming out of, or planning for a change? Constantly. The cycle is almost continuous. One change is barely implemented before a new...

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Organizational Decision-Making in the Age of AI

The organizational structure that characterizes most modern government agencies and many commercial environments was built as an early 20th Century Industrial Era paradigm. Hierarchical, efficient and...

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Create a FutureProof® Plan for the Cryptocurrency-Driven Economy

Our financial system is under tremendous pressure, putting global economies at the kind of inflection point where watershed moments and risks arise. As we look at the future of money, we see a virtual...

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RAPPORT // Looking at Davos and BlackRock - What Active Global Citizenship...

Welcome to Rapport a special blog series within Vanishing Point. As the name implies, this blog is a conversation. Once every month, we will explore foundational shifts and open discussion about...

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The Social Impact of Demassification and Desynchronization

As a whole, modern society is more multifaceted, divisive, connected, and vocal than ever before in history. Two major forces enable this current reality – a rapid rate of change and massive...

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Your Organization's Future Operating Environment

Toffler Associates recently conducted a study that surveyed global executives and found six major forces that are influencing industry's future operating environment. They provide insight into what is...

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Why Corporate Training is the Future of Higher Education

Take this short quiz. When you finish, consider this – if you knew the answers, when was the last time that knowledge increased your output at work or earned you a raise?

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RAPPORT // Is There a Better Alternative to the Trump Infrastructure Plan?

Welcome to Rapport. As the name implies, this blog is a conversation. Once every month, we will explore foundational shifts and open discussion about current issues and trends. I will introduce...

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Creative Approaches to a Stronger Cybersecurity Workforce

Current approaches to cybersecurity are not delivering strong results. Many organizations continue to view cybersecurity as a cost rather than a strategic and necessary investment to mitigate risk....

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Trading Trust in NGOs for Trust in People

Over the past three years, the trust of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) has declined. In 2017, the Edelman Trust Barometer unveiled that only 53% of respondents showed trust in NGOs, a notable...

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What is the Corporate Impact of a Globally Shared Humanity?

Hyperconnectivity has erased the limitations posed by geographic distance. The modern world is a tightly interwoven global web of relationships and orders of impact. For businesses, the consequences of...

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RAPPORT // The Louvre is Proof of Global Shared Humanity

 

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The March for Our Lives is the Movement of Our Lifetime

 The late 1960’s was a pivotal era of social activism. In 1966, Time Magazine named the “Generation Under 25” as its Person of the Year. By 1968, college-aged American youth were acting as “fledgling...

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Data Trust and Privacy - The Risks of Constant Connectivity

 As the world becomes more connected and data-driven, notions of trust and privacy are evolving. Organizations striving for resilience are designing human-machine interactions into their systems. To...

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The Measurable Lasting Value of a Simple Strategy

Strategy is overcomplicated. Government and commercial executives get so wrapped up in working to figure out all the details of a complex task or objective that they lose sight of the plan. This simple...

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RAPPORT // What the Boston Marathon Proves About an Inspired Workforce

 This year’s Boston Marathon left a lasting imprint on my heart. Maybe it’s because I’m currently training for my first marathon, which I’ll run in Chicago this Fall. Watching the race from almost 2400...

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