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- Can GM Foods rescue the planet? – the Only way GM food can come to our rescue - 16 August 2019
- Inverting the City/Country Dynamic - 17 August 2018
- Saving the Polar Ice Caps - 16 August 2017
- What the Weather Bureau can do to help this Drought - 17 August 2015
- How to Stop Japanese Whaling in its Tracks - 17 August 2015
- Are Interest Rate Levers too Clumsy for a Teetering Economy? - 16 August 2014
- For a Futurist, Focus is a Key Issue - 16 August 2013
- Heading down the drain with the ‘4 Minute Shower’. - 16 August 2012
General
- Looking Up Feeling Good Partners with Steel Chicks - 10 March 2024
- Dragging Workplaces back to the 1760s – the Work In Office Dilemma and the Productivity Myth - 16 February 2024
- Dr Kim Hazendonk joins our Speaker’s group - 18 January 2024
- Embracing the Hybrid Workspace – are You there yet? - 15 November 2023
- Exploring Strategy Development – the Organisational Evolution model - 17 October 2023
- Perth workshop 5th October almost fully booked - 18 September 2023
- Delving into Heatwave Scenarios - 12 September 2023
- Introduction to the Organisational Evolution Model workshop in Perth - 9 September 2023
- Sponsoring Vic 55 2s Master’s Hockey - 21 August 2023
- Why You Need to Read ‘Invisible Women’ Now - 20 August 2023
- Preparing for Heat Waves In a World Primed to Cook - 12 August 2023
- Strategic Impact of Long Term Decision Making - 18 July 2023
- Emerging Risks for Australian LGAs - 8 June 2023
- Getting Over it Being Over, Not Over - 27 October 2022
- High Risk Play for Australian Retailers Opening in a Covid19 Constrained Environment - 11 October 2021
- How Main Stream Media Fomented the Latest Victorian #Covid19 Outbreak - 30 September 2021
- Why Climate Change Intervention is WAY Easier than We Think - 7 September 2021
- Explaining the #Covid19 #Pandemic using your own car as if it was your body - 19 August 2021
- The Reality about Hybrid Work - 8 August 2021
- Sports, Recreation and Active Living Start Ups Opportunity Funding - 1 August 2021
- Post-Covid Workforce Planning framework - 23 May 2021
- India’s Covid Surge has a Fat Tail for Australian Companies - 22 April 2021
- The near term future – 3 Months to 3 years - 16 March 2021
- Before I Was Me – thoughts on what aging might hold - 12 March 2021
- Waving Goodbye to Wedgewood’s Factory in HR - 6 March 2021
- Why the Future of Vertical Farming is Two Decades Ahead of Expectations - 2 February 2021
- A Shift in Perspectives – What Commercial Property Owners Are About to Experience that Many have Never Before - 27 January 2021
- PPE Opportunities for Australian Manufacturers Emerging in the USA - 28 November 2020
- The Mechanical, Psychological, and Biological Interventions of a Pandemic - 19 October 2020
- Life Versus Lifestyle – Approaching Life AfterLockdown - 12 October 2020
- The art of sanity in a Pandemic Lockdown - 29 August 2020
- Covid19 – Helping People Deal With Lock-down Events - 3 July 2020
- What Makes Good Visions? - 4 May 2020
- State Governments Dodging Responsibility or Just Not Alert to Reality? - 19 April 2020
- Councils need to Pivot their Parks assets Usage NOW! - 29 March 2020
- China’s Gift: Carona Virus Pandemic Threatens Insurers in two ways and one is way More Costly - 14 March 2020
- ‘China’s Gift’ – Why the AFL needs to Prepare for Crowd-Free Rounds - 9 March 2020
- China’s Gift Has a Fat Tail – Corporate Collapse - 11 February 2020
- My Personal Experience of #Covid19 (thus far) - 15 January 2020
- If that, then what? The question that unlocks almost everything - 22 October 2019
- Employee Engagement Beyond the Workplace - 31 July 2019
- Social Issues Hackathon co hosted by Casey and Dandenong - 25 July 2019
- Beyond VUCA – the VUCA 2.0 concept - 9 July 2019
- Is Manufacturing Output Data a Reliable Indicator of Economic Activity - 19 March 2019
- The Drive to Make Futures Thinking Pragmatic - 13 March 2019
- Australia, We Are Killing Ourselves - 28 January 2019
- 2019 The International Year of the Cooperative - 30 December 2018
- Can the United States Survive the Childish Tantrums of an Incompetent President? - 23 December 2018
- When will the next Federal Election be held in Australia? - 3 December 2018
- Asia on the Rise – why Australia’s Neighbours Will Leave us Behind - 30 October 2018
- 10 years on from the Australia 2020 Futurists Summit - 18 October 2018
- BBC Article on the Future of work and the likely skills needed - 14 October 2018
- When it comes to decision making ‘Bias’ can be friend or foe - 19 May 2018
- Disaster Ahead for the People of Ipswich - 22 April 2018
- Using Foresight Thinking to Enhance the Productivity of Nations - 8 March 2018
- To Manage Your Expectations, First You Need to Know What They Are - 27 January 2017
- There’s No such Thing as a Normal Future - 8 December 2016
- I’m nominating 2016 as The International Year for Consumer Fightback - 19 November 2016
- Planning Tips for Local Government Agencies - 21 September 2016
- Why Donations Won’t Fix the Plight of Australian Farmers - 14 August 2016
- The Four Phases of an Adaptable, Resilient and Sustainable Organisation - 14 July 2016
- A Fork in the Road for the National Party - 9 March 2016
- A Common Mistake That Kills Your Ability to Achieve - 23 February 2016
- Xmas and all that paper - 24 December 2015
- Victorian Election – who should you* vote for? - 25 November 2015
- Curing Brain Cancer One Fund-Raiser at a Time - 16 October 2015
- Memo PM Turnbull – Your First 100 Hours - 14 September 2015
- Picking the Right Futurist for Your Strategic Insights - 11 September 2015
- The Outsider’s view of the Inside Futures - 26 August 2015
- The Quick Low-Down of Corporate Visions and why they Fail - 2 July 2015
- How California can Learn from the Australian Experience of Drought - 3 June 2015
- Will a Change in Greens Leadership make the Nationals Redundant? - 5 May 2015
- Why most Strategic Plans are little more than wish-lists - 21 April 2015
- Why Battery Technology will force Power Companies to embrace domestic supply - 11 March 2015
- Men, What Will Your Legacy Be? - 23 February 2015
- The Future of Energy - 19 February 2015
- Eat OR Extract? You CANNOT do Both - 5 February 2015
- 2015 will be the International Year of Battery Technology - 30 December 2014
- Why Uber is not part of the Sharing Economy - 17 December 2014
- Incumbent models are vulnerable to leapfrogging technology. Here’s why: - 8 November 2014
- Down the Drain with a Four Minute Shower – redux - 21 October 2014
- A 2003 Prediction about 2015 One Step Closer to Coming True! - 14 October 2014
- How Digital Agencies Will Fail Everytime - 30 September 2014
- Leading with One Hand Tied behind Your Back - 4 August 2014
- Why Coal’s biggest problem right now, is not renewables - 24 July 2014
- How do you handled ‘the unsettled’ transitions? - 11 July 2014
- Things I Should Have Said But Didn’t - 17 June 2014
- The Loud Secret: Underestimating your Internal Skill Sets - 12 June 2014
- Queues – coming to an Emergency Department near you - 1 May 2014
- Towards the one step replacement of damaged DNA & promise of living forever - 12 April 2014
- The next great space age – inside the human brain - 18 March 2014
- Jobs of the future – some advice for parents - 17 March 2014
- When Organisational Visions are Statements of Delusion - 2 March 2014
- Robotics, Ageing, and Employment – where are we and what’s next? - 27 February 2014
- What type of Homework should kids be doing? - 16 February 2014
- Environmental Factors and the Future Consumer - 22 January 2014
- A quick look at the ‘Repeal Day’ concept – almost right - 15 January 2014
- 2014 – The International Year of Food Security - 30 December 2013
- Coming up on New Year’s Day – a look ahead to emerging issues - 29 December 2013
- How your Company Vision is doing you harm - 26 November 2013
- Unlocking the promise of ‘teleworking’ - 19 November 2013
- Keeping your Future, grounded to Reality - 18 November 2013
- The 2013 Melbourne Cup – a Futurist Decides - 13 November 2013
- Celebration of Hope fundraiser for Brain Cancer - 17 October 2013
- Marcus Barber’s Presentation from the V21 Digital Conference in Melbourne is available - 2 October 2013
- The ever increasing computing power replacing jobs by the thousands - 23 September 2013
- Australia’s 2013 Election – LNP in a Landslide - 6 September 2013
- Looks like some Soaps kill off more than Germs! - 19 August 2013
- Innovation has to start somewhere, but where? - 5 August 2013
- Preparing for the Upswing & a Change in Direction - 20 July 2013
- Why your Race for Talent should be a ‘Slow’ one - 7 July 2013
- Has The Age Editor called for the wrong resignation - 23 June 2013
- Renewable Energy Technology faces same challenges as new carbon tech – fact or fallacy claims - 16 June 2013
- A Counter to Doomsayers of Manufacturing in Australia - 3 June 2013
- Emerging Consumers: Fact or Fiction? - 29 May 2013
- The Trucking Industry is facing a crisis. It needs to Act. NOW - 27 May 2013
- Why does Facebook think it’s okay to treat Violence against women as acceptable? - 21 May 2013
- How the ‘Perfect Plan’ can lead you to Disaster - 13 May 2013
- Micro Drones & Your Privacy - 28 April 2013
- Assessing the Opposition’s Alternative NBN plan - 17 April 2013
- Higher Ed is still playing catch-up – will it ever be on par? - 9 April 2013
- Jobs of the Future and What Parents can do to help their kids - 7 April 2013
- Coca Cola Versus the Public – container recycling as a branding challenge - 4 April 2013
- Advanced Strategic Organisational Management course in Manila - 25 March 2013
- Is your Personal Bio-Waste Stream a source of Potential Income? - 14 March 2013
- The Future of Retail has landed. - 6 March 2013
- In the Ins of the Outs of Crowdsourcing - 27 February 2013
- Can the Northern Territory beat the Drink ‘Bully Boys’? - 19 February 2013
- The Future of Manufacturing is Upon us - 31 January 2013
- Ten Trends Shaping Government Today - 24 January 2013
- Should we really keep Politicians away from Scientists? - 22 January 2013
- 2013 will be the International Year of Crowdsourcing - 30 December 2012
- Five Emergent Ideas for 2013 you won’t find on any ‘Trends for 2013’ list (just yet) - 19 December 2012
- Does the Mayan Calendar recommend opening your Christmas present early? - 16 December 2012
- Five Degrees Hotter? A quick reality check - 9 December 2012
- 2013 Trends – fair or fantasy? - 4 December 2012
- Open, Closed, Free or Fare? - 2 December 2012
- The Energy challenge & rising prices - 21 November 2012
- Cities of the Future: a view from Perth - 19 November 2012
- The Melbourne Cup and a Futurist’s view - 4 November 2012
- Make your own teeth? Should parents have a ‘licence to parent’? and more on ABC Darwin - 31 October 2012
- Time to combine Life Cycle design & penalties for environmental waste to solve a ballooning problem - 21 October 2012
- Selective Consumption and the Retail sector - 13 October 2012
- Strategic Agility and the Art of Paying Attention - 24 September 2012
- How to Build an Effective Twitter Group - 18 September 2012
- The Future of Beer (and alcohol) - 11 September 2012
- The Top 3 Questions and Answers for the Future - 28 August 2012
- Mars on Earth – is the red planet an indicator of things to come? - 5 August 2012
- The Future of… - 1 August 2012
- The Continued Rise of ‘Enoughness’ - 14 July 2012
- Need a Career Change? Here’s some roles to consider - 9 July 2012
- Our Disappearing World Languages - 25 June 2012
- Science Fiction writer Ray Bradbury has died aged 91 - 6 June 2012
- How Secure is your WiFi Usage? - 29 May 2012
- The Future of Money - 7 May 2012
- Six Emerging Trends in Corporate Sustainability - 1 May 2012
- The Future of War - 23 April 2012
- The Future of Workplace Design - 17 April 2012
- Happiness Makes the World Go ‘Round - 9 April 2012
- Local Councils’ Role in Economic Activity - 4 April 2012
- Eat or Extract – Farming versus Mining in NT and Australia - 26 March 2012
- Top 10 Tips for Resilience - 25 March 2012
- Is more foresight needed for Urban Planning in Darwin? - 12 March 2012
- After the Rains – thinking about Urban Planning in a future of havoc weather - 5 March 2012
- Innovation in Your Supply Chain – Symbiotic Supply Chain management - 14 February 2012
- Remote Mining poses challenges for Australian Airlines - 5 February 2012
- Is Your Organisation’s Strategy D.E.A.D or A.L.I.V.E? - 18 January 2012
- Are you lining your future up in the right direction? - 15 January 2012
- 2012 International Year of Resilience – top 10 Tips - 20 December 2011
- Rising Household Energy Costs NOT due to Environmental Polices - 15 December 2011
- Official Reports for Travelers – who should you believe? - 5 December 2011
- The massive missing piece of Australia’s Tourism approach - 24 November 2011
- A Wildcard to Top them all - 16 November 2011
- Asteroid Management and Mining - 10 November 2011
- Futurist Marcus Barber discusses the Future of Sex (Part Two) on ABC Darwin with Vicki Kerrigan - 10 November 2011
- History as Future – TV Show Who’s Been Sleeping in My House? - 8 November 2011
- Professional Futurists running their Follow The Sun Futures Program - 25 October 2011
- Marcus Barber on ABC Darwin – the Future of Sex Part 2 - 24 October 2011
- The Future of Sex Part One - 17 October 2011
- Soft House Prices or Unrealistic Vendors? - 16 October 2011
- We’ve Been hit by an email Virus and apologise to everyone impacted - 12 October 2011
- The Future of Plastic Bottles - 10 October 2011
- Is Alcohol or Cannabis more Harmful? - 7 October 2011
- The Future of Clothing Part Two - 4 October 2011
- The coming age of Robotics in In-Home Healthcare - 12 September 2011
- Australia 2030 – a view from Siemens - 30 August 2011
- The Future of clothing - 26 August 2011
- Futurist Marcus Barber on Scenarios for Water Industry at World Water Week - 19 August 2011
- For a Futurist, 50 Years isn’t so long ago - 17 August 2011
- The Flaws in Demand & Supply thinking - 7 August 2011
- Cultured Meat’s potential for energy and water reductions - 18 July 2011
- Speaking of the Future at the World Futures Conference - 11 July 2011
- Getting Your Future Right - 8 July 2011
- The Future of You Part 2 - 27 June 2011
- The future of… You - 12 June 2011
- Innovation in Manufacturing – there really IS a Future! But action needs to happen NOW! - 25 May 2011
- Building on Innovation for a vibrant and sustainable future – a focus for future manufacturing - 23 May 2011
- What Australia Can learn from Finland’s Education System - 1 May 2011
- The role of Environmental Scanning in planning departments - 13 April 2011
- What Victoria can learn from Western Australia’s weather - 19 March 2011
- What natural disasters tell us about societies - 16 March 2011
- What to do when phone lines go down - 6 March 2011
- Can GM Foods feed the world? - 28 February 2011
- A Vision for Australian Manufacturing - 16 February 2011
- What to do When a Policeman loses touch with Humanity? - 13 February 2011
- Could Yasi be worse than expected? - 31 January 2011
- Getting Customer Service Right – EastLink – International Year of Solutions - 19 January 2011
- Once the Floods are Over, then what? - 11 January 2011
- Futurist calls 2011: International Year of Solutions - 19 December 2010
- Customer Service – why the future is BEGGING you to get it right today - 24 November 2010
- Active TV slowly emerging - 16 November 2010
- Do fairytales come true? - 27 October 2010
- A quick plug for Google Chrome - 25 October 2010
- What Businesses can learn from Tourism (and vice versa) - 11 September 2010
- Why who the next Prime Minister is might be of little importance - 29 August 2010
- May we get the Goverment we both deserve AND need - 20 August 2010
- Is Mainstream media a reliable guide to the 2010 Australian Federal Election? - 12 August 2010
- ‘Us’ or ‘Them’ – how to tell the customer they are irrelevant on your website - 1 August 2010
- Preparing for your future corporate strategy - 15 July 2010
- The Crisis of Capital - 4 July 2010
- Catching Up on some ‘Light Reading’ - 27 June 2010
- Nanotechnology Moves from idea to Application - 15 June 2010
- Another side to the Super tax on Mining - 7 June 2010
- Design Thinking as a Competitive Advantage - 3 May 2010
- Surviving the Hoons - 13 April 2010
- Hamilton Hoons and Five more die - 28 March 2010
- The Future of Australia’s Dairy Industry - 9 March 2010
- Thinking outside the cloud – a new tourism angle for Queensland - 17 February 2010
- Terrorism the Games wild card - 31 January 2010
- For Valentines Day, its Tigers all ’round - 10 January 2010
- What can we expect in the next decade? - 28 December 2009
- Copenhagen Consensus is likely – just not the type we want. - 7 December 2009
- Counter Mantra to Christmas Credit - 30 November 2009
- What kids can teach us about Goal Directed futures - 16 November 2009
- How Will You Prove You Are Who You Say You Are? - 21 October 2009
- Can GM food rescue the planet’s appetite for Food?a - 15 October 2009
- 2009 September rainfall – still ‘above average’? - 30 September 2009
- Marcus Barber at ANTOR discusses the future of travel - 23 September 2009
- Singapore – The Hub of Great Futures Work - 3 September 2009
- The risks of ‘greenwashing’ in a recession - 14 August 2009
- Marcus Barber to Keynote at Australian Computer Society Conference - 15 July 2009
- Adelaide Advanced Strategic Planning One Day Workshop - 10 June 2009
- The Bubble to end all Bubbles? - 1 June 2009
- Advanced Strategic Planning Workshop in Melbourne - 18 May 2009
- Vale Richard Pratt - 28 April 2009
- How to Spend your $900 – think about your future needs first - 19 April 2009
- Australia 2020 – one year on, now what? - 31 March 2009
- Wearable Technologies coming to some clothing near you - 16 March 2009
- When a Car Insurance company leaves a bad taste in your mouth - 2 March 2009
- Recession Proof Marketing – how to survive and thrive in a recession - 1 March 2009
- 2009 – Living with an economic downturn – a view from Russia - 15 February 2009
- 2009 – a year for Playing ‘Catch-Up’ (Part 1) - 18 January 2009
- Ahead for 2009 on 774 ABC’s conversation hour - 12 January 2009
- 2008 – what a year it was! - 27 December 2008
- Australian Strategic Planning Institute work shop in Sydney fully booked - 7 December 2008
- Heading down the drain with the ‘4 Minute Shower’ - 16 November 2008
- Blackwood 8 fundraiser assists the Ludwig Institute for Cancer research - 3 November 2008
- Regional Produce Summit slides now available - 21 October 2008
- Victorian State Culinary Tourism Conference in Wangaratta - 2 October 2008
- Eco Industrial Parks & Community Development - 2 October 2008
- Marcus Barber discussing the Future on 774 ABC Melbourne - 20 September 2008
- Your Future Requires Planning – and so does ours! - 4 September 2008
- Robots of the Future - 22 July 2008
- Asking the unaskable question – Do we have a right not to die? - 25 June 2008
- Biofuels and Global Starvation - 12 June 2008
- Marcus Barber to Open Supply Chain and Logistics Conference - 14 May 2008
- Book Recommendation – Gang Leader for a Day - 28 April 2008
- Marcus Barber on 774 ABC Melbourne Conversation Hour discussing Australia 2020 Futurists Summit - 23 April 2008
- Australia’s 2020 Future – the Futurist’s report - 20 April 2008
- Australia’s 2020 Future – the Futurist’s report goes ‘live’ tomorrow - 17 April 2008
- Marcus Barber to join Jon Faine for the Conversation Hour on ABC Melbourne - 14 April 2008
- 2020 Australia – Futurist’s Report - 3 March 2008
- Australia’s 2020 Future – the Futurist’s report - 25 February 2008
- Are Interest Rate Rises Too Clumsy to Help a Teetering Economy? - 21 February 2008
- How to Stop Japanese Whaling in its Tracks - 7 February 2008
- Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony Blanketed by Dust Storm - 17 January 2008
- Marcus Barber to be Interviewed on 774 ABC - 6 December 2007
- From Foresight Foreplay to Corporate Consummation - 14 November 2007
- Melbourne Cup Predictions - 5 November 2007
- Applying Strategic Foresight to Organisational Change - 17 October 2007
- The Australian Strategic Planning Institute Gets a Boost - 27 September 2007
- How to Catch a Stealth Bomber & Other iiBubbles - 21 September 2007
- Talented Futurist Celebrates a Birthday - 30 August 2007
- Leading Sustainability through Corporate Real Estate Hypothetical - 22 August 2007
- Innovation in Employee Engagement - 17 July 2007
- Housing Crisis and A Difference to a Difference of Opinion - 3 July 2007
- Sustainability as a Source of Competitive Advantage - 22 June 2007
- Future Alerts Subscription Service now Monthly - 27 May 2007
- Marcus Barber invited to attend World Water Week in Stockholm 2007 - 11 May 2007
- May Brainnovation Session now open - 26 April 2007
- Authenticity & the Craft of Brewing Beer - 29 March 2007
- Strategy and Game Shows - 27 February 2007
- Advanced Organisational Strategy (AOS) Events - 24 January 2007
- Innovation & Counter Intuitiveness - 23 January 2007