Innovation & Future thinking at Amplify Festival

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

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agreements, blogging, future of work, identity, innovation, life management, social contract, trust

Our panel (L-to-R): Rawn, Katryna Dow (CEO of Meeco), Michael Weeding (Dir. Digital at AMP), Cheryl Burgess (author, speaker), and Craig Meller (CEO of AMP)
(photo: AmplifyFest)

The Amplify Festival in Sydney, Australia was quite an eye opening event for me in the realm of futurism, innovation and long-term development. The topics and speakers likewise had some world class research behind them. I blogged an overview for each day and shared them on LinkedIn.

I was at hand as Blogger-in-Residence for the five days of the event hosted by AMP, one of the top financial services companies of Australia, at their downtown offices. I also facilitated the panel on Customer Engagement and Trust (shown on right) with three others with great insight: Katryna Dow (Meeco.me), Michael Weeding (AMP), and Cheryl Burgess (Blue Focus Marketing). The event was attended by AMP employees (even their top execs like Craig Meller, their CEO, and Craig Ryman, their CIO), as well as many from across Australian industry.

I have posted two pieces on Forbes (so far):

See all the days at Amplify Festival (including videos of some of the talks):

June 1st – Innovation management (Dr. Norman Lewis, PwC), Video surveys (Matthew Barnett, Verbate)
June 2nd – Futurism (Stuart Candy, U of Toronto), Healthcare Design (Lorna Ross, Mayo Clinic), Bitcoin (Jon Matonis)
June 3rd – Ecosystems (John Hagel, Deloitte), Company Transformation (Sanjay Purohit, Infosys), and Strategy Planning (Simon Wardley, LEF)
June 4th – Innovating Publishing (Paul Cameron, Booktrack), Education (Heather McGowan), Long-term Innovation (James Moody, Sendle)
June 5th – Aging (Michael Hodin, Ruth Finkelstein, Ken Smith, Mark Halverson)

-rawn

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2015 Edelman Trust Barometer

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Facebook, research, trust

Edelman’s annual look at Trust among different stakeholders (inside and outside organizations), in nations across the world.

In terms of trust in individuals, people look first to:
1. Academic/Industry Experts
2. Company Technical Expert
3. A person like yourself
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7. CEOs
8. Government officials
2015 Edelman Trust Barometer
“View the results of Edelman’s 15th annual exploration of trust, which surveyed 33,000 people in 27 countries around the world on their trust in government, m…”

Also the details of the study here: http://bit.ly/16UXItB

[Cross-posted from Facebook on February 11, 2015 at 03:01PM]

[Facebook]: Why You Hate Work – NY Times

24 Saturday Jan 2015

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engagement, Facebook, trust

Tony Schwartz of the Energy Project, wrote an op-ed piece, “Why You Hate Work” on employee engagement on The New York Times in May last year that still is quite interesting

“A truly human-centered organization puts its people first — even above customers — because it recognizes that they are the key to creating long-term value. Costco, for example, pays its average worker $20.89 an hour, Businessweek reported last year, about 65 percent more than Walmart, which owns its biggest competitor, Sam’s Club. Over time, Costco’s huge investment in employees — including offering benefits to part-time workers — has proved to be a distinct advantage.

Costco’s employees generate nearly twice the sales of Sam’s Club employees. Costco has about 5 percent turnover among employees who stay at least a year, and the overall rate is far lower than that of Walmart. In turn, the reduced costs of recruiting and training new employees saves Costco several hundred million dollars a year. Between 2003 and 2013, Costco’s stock rose more than 200 percent, compared with about 50 percent for Walmart’s. What will prompt more companies to invest more in their employees?”

http://nyti.ms/1uI3Ctf
Why You Hate Work
“Excessive demands are leading to burnout everywhere.”

[Cross-posted from Facebook on January 24, 2015 at 11:41AM]