Transforming Not Recovering
In my previous post I noted some of the major global changes underway. No one has the solution to how best navigate the energy, economic, educational, and geopolitical transitions underway. So what...
View ArticleMaking New Zealand Too Small To Fail
Rather than thinking that we can’t be prosperous (economically and otherwise) because we are small and isolated, we should consider how we can make New Zealand ‘Too Small To Fail’ during turbulent...
View ArticleThinking Futures Workshop
The NZ Futures Trust is running a workshop in Wellington on 6th March. The purpose is to help connect up future thinkers and to help identify how the Futures Trust can better support futures thinking...
View ArticleFuture Foods
Will farm livestock become endangered species? Social, economic and environmental drivers are converging to not only look at producing food more efficiently and sustainably, but are also stimulating...
View ArticleIntergenerational equity
Last week I went to demographer Paul Spoonley’s informative lecture at the Treasury about migration. He started off by noting a conversation he had with his son, where the latter proclaimed that “the...
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Governing CRIs
[Update 1st Sept.: I've done a better analysis of Board skills in the subsequent post.] Continuing the theme of the culture of innovation I raised in an earlier post, this entry considers what role do...
View ArticleCreating innovation ladders for New Zealand
After Elon Musk announced his Hyperloop design last month Molly Wood wrote an impassioned piece about why Americans are now so sceptical about big ideas. This builds on a disputed theme lamenting the...
View ArticleTrends in manufacturing
Boeing’s Dreamliner has 6.5 million lines of software code for onboard systems support. It’s a very complicated aircraft. The new Chevy Volt – a humble little hybrid car – has 10 million lines. That...
View ArticleCounting sheep scenarios
I’ve just come across this research project – Counting sheep - being run by Anne Galloway at Victoria University’s School of Design. It is exploring how cultural studies and design research could...
View ArticleTransport Futures
Thirty billion, 60 billion, one billion, 10 billion. Those are some of the numbers from the Ministry of Transport’s recent Future Demand project. 30 billion kilometres travelled a year on New Zealand...
View ArticleOne hundred years hence
Over the next week New Zealanders (& Australians) are looking back a century to remember and honour a tragic battle in a foreign land. There are a lot of activities and discussions happening about...
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