I’ve read so many articles with predictions for 2011 that I thought I would try and look a little further out. Here’s our world in 2015: – Smartphones and tablets will be as numerous as PC’s and TV’s – 50Mb broadband will be standard in all major urban centres – App stores will be prevalent [...]

This century will usher in the ‘Participation Economy’. With Crowdsourcing as its essential new social and business tool. It’s a new way of working, thinking, cooperating and leading. It is destined to affect the very concept of organization. It can change the way we are managed.

Tina Brown, over at The Daily Beast, wrote a powerful if somewhat negative article last year about ‘The Gig Economy’. This followed research they did which revealed that nearly a third of Americans do multiple gigs or freelance jobs. It seems that the days of full, dependable, monogamous employment are over – at least for [...]