Gerd Leonhard
Leading authority on future of telecommunication, media
and technology
William Halal
Widely acknowledged as the leading technology forecaster
Adrian Pop
Professor at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania
Benjamin Mottram
Future thinker and authority on crowd sourcing and gamification
Boyan Ivantchev
Associate professor in behavioural finance and board member of a Bulgarian listed private equity fund
Francisco Jose Martinez Lopez
Professor of the University of Huelva, Spain specialising in information technology and future studies
James H. Lee
Delaware-based investment advisor and authority on emerging technologies and social trends
Joyce Gioia
President and CEO of The Herman Group (USA) and a Strategic Business Futurist
Norman Rebin
US based specialist in productivity and communications focussed on global business.
Petur Albert Haraldsson
Business executive entrepreneur and financial services change agent from Iceland
Steven Aguilar Milan
Director of research of the European Futures Observatory
Stephen Roulac
Real estate expert, litigation consultant, strategy advisor, and author.
Steve Wells
Experienced Strategist and Futures Analyst
Victor Vahidi Motti
Award winning Iranian scholar and academic futurist
Andrew Charlton
Highly respected Geneva based aviation industry consultant and commentator
Andrew Vladimirov
Neuroscientist, brain hacker, and information security expert.
Anish Mohammed
UK based technologist and security expert
Anna Simpson
Singapore based author and curator of Forum for the Future's Futures Centre
Anne Boysen
Norwegian futurist and researcher specialising in generational analysis
Anne Lise Kjaer
Global futurist and trend observer based in Denmark.
April Koury
Foresight Researcher and member of the Fast Future team.
B.J. Murphy
American Technoprogressive Transhumanist, writer, editor and social media manager for the futures magazine SeriousWonder.
Calum Chace
Highly acclaimed author, international authority on artificial intelligence (AI) and experienced business executive.
Claire Nelson
Ideation Leader of The Futures Forum USA and White House Champion of Change
Cornelia Dalheim
Leading German futurist and foresight consultant.
Dana Klisanin
Award-winning US psychologist and expert on conscious living
David Saintloth
US entrepreneur, designer and writer.
David Wood
Futurist, technologist, writer and chair of London Futurists.
David Wortley
Malaysia based author and expert on the strategic use of gamification and enabling Technologies for the transformation of business.
Dean Bubley
Technology analyst and authority on the future of telecommunications.
Tiana Sinclair
Product manager, futurist and an advocate of emerging technologies. She is the founder of Future Tech Track.
Hardin Tibbs
Highly experienced UK-based futurist, strategist, educator and writer
Jeffrey Joslin
Writer on the advancement of technology at Me, Myself, and Robot.
Jim Burke
US foresight coach focused on delivering innovation and effective ways to think about and act on the future
Julian Snape
Adviser on the impacts of disruptive technologies for small to medium enterprises. UK Transhumanist Party co-founder.
Kevin Wheeler
US based author, consultant, teacher and global speaker and Founder and President of The Future of Talent Institute.
Laura Goodrich
Speaker, coach, advisor and Global Workforce Innovator focused on change and the future of work.
Maree Conway
Experienced foresight and strategy consultant and the founder of Thinking Futures (Australia)
Martin Dinov
Brain-Computer Interfacing and neuro-stimulation Researcher at Imperial College London.
Matt Alder
Digital strategy expert who focuses on the future of work
Omar Mohout
Technology Author, C-level advisor, and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Antwerp Management School
Michael Nuschke
A "Retirement Futurist" - focusing on the impacts of emerging technologies on personal financial planning
Peter Bishop
Former Director of the Foresight program at the University of Houston and now Executive Director of Teach the Future
Peter Cochrane
Seasoned technology innovator and entrepreneur and former head of research and Chief Technology Officer for BT in the UK.
Puruesh Chaudhary
Development and strategic communications professional and the Founder and President of AGAHI
Sohail Inayatullah
Professor at Tamkang University, University of the Sunshine Coast, Macquarie University, Sydney
Yates Buckley
Founding partner at UNIT9 an award winning UK digital production agency.
Alberto Rizzoli
Young Italian futurist, educational innovation entrepreneur, and Singularity University student.
Gray Scott
Leading authority on future of telecommunication, media
and technology
Rohit Talwar
Global futurist and founder of Fast Future Research. Rohit works with global business to help them understand and create the future.
Ian Pearson
Globally recognised as an authority on technology futures, former lead futurist at BT Labs.
Vinay Gupta
Pioneer in the cybercurrency movement.
David Wood
Founder of London Futurists, editor of Anticipating 2025 and a new
book on political futures.
Alexandra Whittington
Highly experienced futures researcher and faculty
member on the Futures Programme at the University of Houston.
The Authors:
THE FUTURE
OF BUSINESS
ROHIT TALWAR
Critical Insights on a Rapidly Changing World by 60 Futurists
Lead Editor
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The Book
The Future of Business is the first book in the FutureScapes series. The book focuses on the critical social and economic forces, business trends, disruptive technologies, breakthrough developments in science and new ideas that could reshape the commercial environment over the next two decades. It explores how these future factors could come together to force a fundamental rethinking of the purpose, strategy, business models, values and structures of organizations as they seek to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing reality.
The Future of Business draws on the latest rich and challenging insights, ideas and visions from over 60 contributing authors - established and emerging futurists, foresight researchers and future thinkers from around the world.
Lead editor and global futurist Rohit Talwar introduces the book:
The Future of Business explores the business implications of political, economic and social shifts, cybercurrencies, new business models, and the long term impact of disruptive developments such as neurotechnologies, gene editing, 3D printing, new energy solutions, AI and robotics. It explores the potential emergence of new industries and new organizational forms, and highlights practical strategies for exploring and embedding the future.
The Future of Business is the first book in FutureScapes series being launched by Fast Future Publishing. The book targeted at a business and generalist audience and is designed to be a wide ranging reference source on the trends, ideas and developments that could shape all our futures.
The Future of Business is essential reading for business leaders, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to stay ahead of the curve understand how our world and the world of work could be transformed over the next two decades.
Sections
1. Visions of the Future - What are the global transformations on the horizon?
2. Tomorrow's Global Order - What are the emerging political and economic transformations that could reshape the environment for society and business?
3. Emerging Societal Landscape - Who are we becoming, how will we live?
4. Social Technologies - How will tomorrow's technologies permeate our everyday lives?
5. Disruptive Developments - How might new technologies enable business innovation?
6. Surviving and Thriving - How can business adapt to a rapidly changing reality? What are the critical success factors for business in a constantly evolving world?
7. Industry Futures - How might old industries change and what new ones could emerge?
8. Embracing the Future - What are the futures / foresight tools, methods and processes that we can use to explore, understand and create the future?
9. Framing the Future - Why and how should organisations look at the future?
10. Conclusions - Navigating uncertainty and a rapidly changing reality.
