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NOW AVAILABLE!
Lessons in Radical Innovation: 
South Africans leading the world
The new book by Wolfgang Grulke with Gus Silber

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THE INTERNATIONAL EDITION TO BE AVAILABLE FROM MARCH 2002!
Lessons in Radical Innovation: Out-of-the-box, straight to the bottom line
By Wolfgang Grulke with Gus Silber, containing international case studies.

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Also to be available for pre-order from Amazon.com soon!




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July 2001

Professor Andy Andrews joins the FutureWorld Network of Gurus  
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 "Ten Lessons from the Future"
THE INTERNATIONAL EDITION 
by Wolfgang Grulke, edited by Gus Silber and Richard Stagg
on-line from
 
"Ten Lessons from the Future"
THE SOUTH AFRICAN FIRST EDITION 
by Wolfgang Grulke, with Gus Silber
is now virtually sold out and you will struggle to find copies anywhere - online or in the book stores! 
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If you can't find any and desperately need copies email @One Communications and they'll try to track down some for you!

Read what reviewers are saying about Ten Lessons from the Future! 

"A practical and inspirational guide to the Future. A superb combination of practicality and vision. It is a great read, precise and thought provoking. It makes you really want to jump out of your seat and participate in the creation of the future. I have read this book twice. I highly recommend it to those who do not want someone else eating their cheese."
Radames Soto -Wall Street Journal, New York

"The best book of 2000 - I learnt so much".
 Geraldine Greene - CEO i-biz21.com 

"What a wake up call. After reading Wolfgang Grulke's Ten Lessons from the Future, I realize my 35 years of professional experience are just history. I am now rewinding my mind set to be responsive to my new vision of the future."
Robert A. Campbell - Regional Managing Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu - Asia Pacific, Hong Kong

"This quote from the book really opened my eyes: 'In this warp-speed world it is no longer enough to learn from experience, you have to learn from the future'. This is out of the box thinking. There's nothing traditional about this. Wolfgang explores strategies essential in these difficult times."
John Bigalke - National Industry Leader, Health Care and Life Sciences, Deloitte and Touche, Orlando, Florida

"Ten Lessons from the Future is truly captivating. The thinking is original and frame-breaking. I don't often use superlatives but they are deserved here. I urge you to look seriously at this book - and soon".
John M Stopford, Professor of International Business, 
London Business School

"Success in the future demands spending time there.NOW! Grulke creates this time warp.giving us a unique glimpse of our future lives, what we make of it is up to us!

 Anton Musgrave, CEO, Citadel Portfolio Management 

"Wolfgang was accurately forecasting the new world way before it was the new world. His predictions  were perceived as outrageous 7 years ago have now been completely vindicated. This book is a must in order to understand where your business and your life life is going - and faster than you think".
David Frankel, Executive Director, Dimension Data

"Wolfgang, provocative and entertaining as ever, teaches us that change is to be embraced with excitement rather than fear." 
Neil Jacobsohn, CEO, I-Net Bridge

For a complete list of reviews click here!

Have you read the news today? Oh boy!
Financial Times 24 March and Newsweek 26 March

If you're not scared - then you've missed the point!
Watch this space for upcoming FuturesForum workshops
in support of the major new presentation series! 

WORKSHOPS
See what our clients are saying about "The Fractal Individual":

"Brilliant, absorbing and inspiring!"
Alan Gross - Sales Director ChefWork.com

New stuff from the folks at FutureWorld

If you agree with the sentiments expressed in the Open Letter to Thabo Mbeki as published in Wolfgang Grulke's Ten Lessons from the Future, and are keen to see the South Africa government take radical action to make this economy a magnet for international investment - then send an e-mail message directly to Thabo Mbeki!
Click here now!!!!

26 January 2001
Financial Mail's FutureCompany magazine interviews Wolfgang Grulke.  Read more about  "Futureperfectornotsoperfect? SA futurist and strategist speaks out on the dot-com
crash, the coming biotech boom and SA's economic
prospects"

8 January 2001
WorldOnline 'Mixed Grill' Interview with Wolfgang Grulke - to read it  Click Here
"Many thanks for such an excellent interview -- really terrific stuff! It is a great read, with many intriguing points, and I roared my head off at the comment re: "Andre Version 2.1" ... in fact, I took the joke on a tour of the office and had everyone chuckling."

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1 January 2001
Schoeman Rudman appointed as CEO, and Wolfgang Grulke as Chairman of FutureWorld (South Africa) Pty Ltd. Schoeman will focus on the SA operations and Wolfgang on the development of the international aspects of FutureWorld. They will work together on developing the future strategy of the business and the Network of Gurus  Click here to see who's who in the Network of Gurus

20 November 2000
New presentation topic announced for February 2001 - exclusive to members of FutureWorld's HyperTech programme for March/April/May 2001! 
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5 September 2000
New video files added to the FutureWorld Web Site!
Especially useful for conference organisers!
Clips of Wolfgang Grulke in action at conferences and on television!
(Click here to go to Wolfgang Grulke's CV, and download one or more of these files. You can then run them on your own PC using Windows Media Player or any similar video player)

29 November 2000
FutureWorld achievements recognized in major award!
  
FutureWorld received the adjudicators' Special Commendation Award,
a combined award for the President's Award for Export Achievement and the Technology Top 100. 

19 August 2000
Radical Innovation
A brand new keynote presentation!

6 March 2000

Brand new topic added to the series of HyperTech briefings:

eCommerce 1995 to 2005: A decade of business and investment revolutions

Previous Briefings:
MILLENNIUM: Ten Lessons from the Future!
A journey from the1970s to the 2020s: What can we learn from 20/20 hindsight and how does that shape our 2020 vision? What can we learn from the future that should shape our actions today?
Beyond the Digital Economy...is the Bio Economy the next big thing?
The Digital Economy is maturing. Will it experience the same 'falling price boom' now being experienced by the Industrial Economy? What will really be the Next Big Thing?
"The Economics of Information"
A timely new presentation from Wolfgang Grulke to help take stock of what's happening in the chaotic world economy, and why technology is at the heart of the economic revolution!

 
22 March 2000
The SABC/FutureWorld project FutureSmart wins television's Science and Technology Award!

The series Future Smart screened within SABC TV's 'Fokus with Freek Robinson' during the latter months of 1999 has been awarded the 1999 Science and Technology Award. The award was made by the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology in conjunction with associated scientific bodies. In other words: it won the most prestigious award of its
kind in South Africa!

We hope to have this series available soon on CD-ROM! Watch this space!

9 December 1999
Barney's Investment News writes about FutureWorld's Lessons from the Future!

22 October 1999
Aletha Ling writes about her views of a powerful new keynote presentation - Millennium: Ten Lessons from the Future in her ITWeb column.

6 October 1999
The Dispatch writes about a recent FutureWorld showcase in the Eastern Cape - Ten Lessons from the Future and considers some of the implications for South Africa

3 September 1999
Financial Mail's Personal Wealth Quarterly writes about the evolution of the virtual workplace - including an interview with Wolfgang Grulke.

From the Press:

Wolfgang Grulke's Open Letter to Thabo Mbeki makes news!

SAPA report: "Futurist advises Mbeki to get rid of income tax"
Television: MNet's Carte Blanche investigates Mbeki's options!
Radio: Punt grills Grulke!
Magazines: Financial Mail thinks it's all about the Sovereign Individual!
Newspapers: Personal Finance discovers Blue Chips are 'Slap Chips'
Beeld does it in Afrikaans!

Click here if you're interested to read the complete open letter to Thabo Mbeki on which this coverage was based!

User testimonial
"FutureWorld - yours is a truly visionary and amazing enterprise! (The open letter to Thabo Mbeki) is the most exciting solution to an economic crisis that the world has ever seen!" 
Tanya van der Spuy - Senior lecturer in tax at the University of Pretoria

Other press coverage of FutureWorld thinking

New from the FutureWorld Bookshop...
the latest books on The Fractal Individual and Radical Innovation

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See also Amazon.com's "Daily Scoop" page for the latest news and listings 
 

Are you stuck in the Industrial Age?
How does your business rate against the new nimble Information Age competitors?

In addition to
The Information Age Scorecard,

Now available from FutureWorld International!
The Information Age Corporate Scorecard
and
The Information Age Opinion Survey

Test employee and customer perceptions of your organisation, your competitiveness, products and services using these Internet-based tools.
Customise your own questions, segment by division or markets and be up and running in days!

From the FutureWorld Archive:

"In Search of Simplicity"
Winner of the NACCA award for the best business article of the year in 1987! See how these 1987 forecasts stack up against the reality of the new millennium!

The Shell: a perfect cocktail of biological adaptation and mathematical structure in natural systems - reminiscent of the worlds of 'the born' and 'the made' - a natural object with many of the structured characteristics of our technological world. It reminds us that, in whatever we do, the quest for innovation and balance is often more important than driving for sheer success! 

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