Under pressure to act fast during the pandemic, businesses sped up their digital transformation plans, compressing their timetables from years into months. Now they face the next phase of evolution, what digital prophet Brian Solis calls the ānovel economyā. For businesses to adapt and thrive, says Solis, they must take a more profound and humanistic approach to transformation. Stephen Shaw, Chief Strategy Officer of Kenna, and Brian Solis, recently had a refreshingly honest conversation about the real future of digital…
The Future of Travel and Tourism in a Post-COVID World
Every industry, in its own painful way, has been disrupted due to COVID-19. While I’ve been sharing scenarios of disruption for the last 20 years, I never considered a global pandemic of this caliber. I feel deeply for every industry and every company and every person affected. It’s why, at Salesforce, I’ve dedicated my research since March 2020, to understanding the effects of disruption to help executives navigate forward. My goal explored beyond the new or next normal toward one…
Why Human Connections Should be at the Center of Digital Transformation: A Conversation with Blazing Trails
I had the wonderful opportunity to join Michael Rivo on the Salesforce Blazing Trails podcast. What an amazing conversation! We explored the intersection between humanity, social science, and innovation. If you have 22 minutes and 20 seconds, I’d love for you to join us! You can listen to the show here. I hope it helps! The show is also available on… Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Show Notes: Successful digital transformations start and end with the teams executing them. Meaningful…
AI and Automation Present a Choice for a Post-COVID World: Business as Usual or Business Unusual
Today, we stand at a crossroad where we can go in one of two directions: perish in ‘business as usual’ or thrive in ‘business unusual.’Ā Automation Anywhere is helping the world automater epetitive tasks through RPA (repetitive process automation). They’re doing so to reduce the everyday, menial tasks of employees to free them up for more creative and imaginative tasks and also to staff the jobs of the future…today. I was asked to speak on this subject at this year’s…
Digital Transformation in 2021 and Beyond – A Prediction
Salesforce executives shared their 2021 predictions for the future of work, digital transformation, and business innovation. While there will always be unknowns, Salesforce executives believe there are important scenarios and technologies businesses must plan for in their approach to the new year. What’s clear is that the opportunities for transformation and innovation are not only abundant, but also focused on a digital imperative. Brian Solis, Salesforce’s Global Innovation Evangelist was also included in the mix of important predictions. Serving the…
Brand Innovation in the Novel Economy
In Q4 2020, I was given the opportunity to keynote the CMO Brand Digital Summit. My topic was “Brand Innovation in the Novel Economy: Taking Cues from Generation-N to Rethink Brand Pillars as a Competitive Advantage.” Leading up to the event, I spent some time with GDS’ Claudia Effra-Hume to explore the topic ahead of the conference. The result is a series of videos ranging from 10 seconds to one minute that answer some very important questions heading into 2021….
Disruptive Innovation Accelerates Hotels, Restaurants, Cloud Kitchens, and the Hospitality Industry into the Future
Via Financial Express, Swapna Raghu Sanand With the year 2020 kicking off in an unprecedented way with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, innovative solutions for the hospitality industry have shot into prominence. Given how digital solutions are completely redefining food experiences across the corporate, travel and hospitality segments, an interesting premise can be linked with the concept of futuristic digital Darwinism has been shared by leading digital anthropologist and futurist Brian Solis. The best selling authorĀ recently shared a keynote…
It’s Time to Humanize Your Brand
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) featured an interview with Brian Solis, global innovation evangelist at Salesforce. We wanted to share the interview with you here… Brian Solis, global innovation evangelist at Salesforce, doesn’t mince words when it comes to how the coronavirus will change the way brands and organizations present themselves to the public. “If this pandemic has shown us anything, it’s that it’s time to add several new pillars to the brand that allow it to become much…
Employing an AI Futurist To Navigate the Post-Corona World
What does the world look like post-COVID? It’s an interesting question because the answer is limited to our own imagination and ideas of what was good and what wasn’t in the world before COVID (BC). As a contributor to Singularity University, I was excited to joinĀ Kris Ćstergaard on his Corporate Innovation Podcast for SingularityU. In this thoughtful episode, we explored a new concept I’ve been pushing to employ the role of an AI Futurist to navigate the Post-Corona, aka the…
Q&A: How to Boost Your Business Through Innovation in an Era of Global Disruption
In an earlier post, Emakina and I explored the depths what it takes for businesses to become “the light in times of darkness.” Following the event, we received additional questions that we deemed were worth follow up. So, we scheduled a second recording to address all that we could. We wanted to share the conversation with you here… Extra Q&A Session with Brian Solis Last June, Emakina organised a webinar with 8-time bestselling author and digital anthropologist Brian Solis to…
