Insights
Thinc is turning 25 and to celebrate, we're looking to the future and thinking about what it might hold for our clients and society as a whole. Our team at Thinc Beyond identifies the megatrends that have the potential to be game-changers and disrupt business – for good and bad. Knowing about these trends allows us to help our clients plan for the future, position their projects for success, unlock new possibilities and transform their business. During our anniversary year, we'll focus on one megatrend each month.
This month we look at .
The rise of the madhatter
It’s a visual cliché: who among us hasn’t seen a photo-shopped image of the fresh-faced professional with six additional arms, each handling a different task? In a little over a decade, multi-tasking has become a byword for efficiency. Once again, digital technology is the force that’s brought this phenomenon into being. It’s no exaggeration to [...]
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The Force of Change
Imagine starting again. What would you change in your personal and professional life? Everything? Nothing? Until relatively recently, there was little point asking yourself this question. Even a generation ago, peoples’ lives were more fixed. Go another generation back and this is even more apparent. In a country like Australia, most peoples’ lives followed a [...]
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In the mix
Who is typical? Seriously. Imagine you’re responsible for characterising the world’s ‘average’ person. What kind of profile would you come up with? Once, in the not too distant past, the world’s ‘typical’ face was almost invariably represented as white. Even though the world’s white population has – as proportion of the global population – been [...]
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Networked
The clock is ticking. Any day now the world’s seven-billionth baby will be born. There’s no denying that the world is almost unimaginably populous. Despite this, most of us feel it’s getting smaller, not larger. The internet – and everything it enables – is the force that makes us feel like the world is shrinking.
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Changing places
As a society, we have changed. Moving away from the “just do as your told” mentality, we are being empowered to challenge expectations and take responsibility for our own actions. Generations are now shaking off the shackles of tradition and craving to break free of convention. Whilst organisations are forced to focus on the areas [...]
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Gaming for good
Three billion hours a week. That’s how much time people are spending in on-line gaming environments, according to Dr Jane McGonigal. But – according to McGonigal – this is not enough. In a much-blogged-about presentation at the 2010 TED Talks, she argued that as a global community, we need to set a target of 21 [...]
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Crowd Sourcing
What could crowdsourcing mean for your business? At a time when competition is fierce, and everyone battles for valuable dollars and client loyalty, many organisations are searching for the next big thing that will offer them a new idea or a solution to a complex problem in order to stay one step ahead. Staying stagnant [...]
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Transforming Healthcare through Planning & Delivery
Drivers of transformational change have never been so compelling.
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