by Minter Dial | Oct 4, 2017 | Big Data Analytics, Cyber Security, Futureproof, New Tech
There’s a worldwide war underway, and without exception, every man, woman and child is under attack. Are you worried? Possibly, although it’s more likely that you’ll feel apathetic towards the vicious battle that surrounds you. Despite the prevalence, persistence, and...
by Minter Dial | Oct 2, 2017 | Business, Collaboration, Futureproof, Meaningfulness, Responsibility
The $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods by Amazon this summer will be a bell-weather for Amazon's future. Share on X Will Amazon transform Whole Foods or vice versa? As this WSJ article posits, so far the impact seems to be the former. Naturally, the whole reason...
by Minter Dial | Oct 1, 2017 | Digital Transformation, Futureproof, New Tech
In my eyes and in the wake of the disruptive digital force shaping our present and near future, building and nurturing trust and influence with all your stakeholders is one of the very key issues that any executive should put first on his/her strategic agenda. As a...
by Minter Dial | Sep 27, 2017 | Big Data Analytics, Futureproof, New Tech
Disruption is a big word. I see many startups that want to be ‘disruptive’. But very rarely we see disruption happening suddenly. Big changes do not happen over night. A lot of industries are about to change due to data. We saw in the last 10 years a lot of...
by Minter Dial | Sep 24, 2017 | Futureproof, New Tech
While press and overall hype on energy storage has increased notably – hardly an article on renewable energy is written without the mention of energy storage – energy storage is not an intrinsically new or novel concept. Pumped storage hydro (PSH) stations –...
by Minter Dial | Sep 21, 2017 | Futureproof, Genomics, Health, New Tech
A decade ago, sequencing the over 3 billion bases of the human genome, which gave birth to the field of modern “Genomics”, was a disruptive force in science and technology that changed the way we think about disease forever. The development of this technology has led...