20/20 Vision Creators Blog

My Thoughts for 2009

Myles Hopkins — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:05:07 +0000

As many of you will already know I spend a great deal of time doing research and using this research to do future trend analysis. I met with some great MyGenius members today and one of them reminded me of a blog which I did titled “My Thoughts for 2008”. I was asked to do [...]

Virtual Worlds

Myles Hopkins — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:40:17 +0000

We have entered the era of “Wikinomics”, as stated by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams in their book of the same name. In this era Web 2.0 tools such as virtual worlds, virtual meeting spaces, blogs, virtual innovation hubs, mass collaboration, mash-ups, peer-to-peer networking, podcasts, RSS, social networking, wikis, web services, etc are becoming [...]

Time To Wake Up and Smell The Coffee

Myles Hopkins — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:43:01 +0000

Let me start this blog by stating that I come from an HR background and that this blog is intended to jolt HR professionals and practitioners out of their “warm and fuzzy” slumber and into the real world. Any organisations greatest competitive advantage today is their people and we are hearing “talent management” this and [...]

Africa’s Future

Myles Hopkins — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:39:23 +0000

The growth of the BRIC nations has been phenomenal over the past few years and the economic power shift from the developed world to the developing world impacts all of our lives on a daily basis. I travel a great deal to Nigeria and Tanzania and I also do a great deal of research on trends. [...]

What is True Strategy?

Myles Hopkins — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:28:01 +0000

As many of you may well know by now, I am a strategist and I am often asked what strategy is and how does one go about establishing and implementing your strategy. I thought that I would share the thinking and processes that we apply with our clients which are a mix of public and [...]