THE
NETWORK OF FUTUREWORLD GURUS:
PRACTITIONERS IN CREATING COMPETITIVE BUSINESS AND FRACTAL ORGANIZATIONS
For NEW video clips see below!
Wolfgang Grulke
- Founder and Chairman, FutureWorld , a global business and technology think tank, and a director of companies.
- Founder and former CEO, Business Futures Group, a South African management consultancy firm renowned for applying holistic and systemic thinking in a chaotic business environment and creating sustainable business change.
- As a former IBM executive he worked internationally with IBM for more than 20 years and was awarded the prestigious IBM Outstanding Innovation Award from then CEO John Akers in London in 1983. .
With a background in business, technology, nuclear physics, entertainment and marine biology, Wolfgang is an exhilarating and thought-provoking speaker on topics from business transformation to the technological revolutions, paradigm shifts to chaos, fractals and the dilemmas of modern management, and the sex life of fish! In the style of a Victorian raconteur Wolfgang brings fresh ideas and a breadth of thinking that is rare in today's focused and specialised world.
He has addressed audiences in more than 20 countries, in person, on radio and on television. He is a successful writer and photographer and has been widely published, on the subjects of business, technology, management and marine life. He is currently working on a major new book on the marine life of the Indian Ocean. He has served on the management board of the JLB Smith Institute, a world-renowned marine research institution, and serves on the Educational Trust of the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town. His article "In Search of Simplicity" won the NACCA award for the best business article of the year and his article "From Value Chain to Marketspace" was awarded the AFSM International Writing Award (in Professional Writers and Consultants category) in Boston in October 1997.
His previous best-seller "Ten Lessons from the Future" was published in South Africa in June 2000 and in the USA and UK in December 2000. It is currently being translated into Spanish and Chinese for launch in those markets later this year.
This is what Radames Soto of the Wall Street
Journal, New York had to say:
"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."
He has just published a new book Lessons in Radical Innovation: South Africans leading the world and an international edition of this book Lessons in Radical Innovation: Out-of-the-box straight to the bottom line will be published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall in Europe and the USA in March 2002.
Wolfgang is a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at
the London Business
School and teaches regularly on a number of
programmes including the School's flagship Senior Executive Programme (SEP).
Wolfgang has worked globally for much of his life and has lived in almost equal shares in Germany, England and South Africa. He intends to spend most of the rest of his life in the future.
Here are some video files you can
download
(and run using Windows Media Player or any similar video player)
showing Wolfgang in action at conferences and on television:
Arthur Andersen Conference - Europe
Extracts from the Ten Lessons from the Future presentation
Why knowledge has no value!
1126kb
The explosion of the world's digital
skin! 1069kb
Introduction to the Woodstock sequence!
1195 kb
Reuters TV Broadcast to the Insurance
Industry - USA
Extracts from the Three Revolutions of the
Information Economy discussion
The New Competition
1051kb
eCommerce 691kb
The New Economy 652 kb
Carte Blanche TV Journalism - South Africa
Extracts from the Open Letter to Thabo Mbeki broadcast
Introduction by Ruda
Landman 1736kb
The Open Letter - no more personal
tax! 448kb
The Open Letter - a new role for
government! 1422 kb
Here are some
audio files you can
download
Radio 702 Interview with Jenny Crwys-Williams (download wav files)
Part 1 (12 min), part 2
(25 min), part 3 (25 min), part
4 (3 min)
Dimension Data Executive Director Dave Frankel "Wolfgang has done more than any other individual to bring the business benefits of the Internet home to the South African business community".
Brent Addison of The Forbes Group called him "One of the world's most important commentators on the future".
Here are some more client comments:
"Wolfgang offers us remarkable new insights that have become part of a new 'language' for our executives"
"Our series of strategic sessions have become watershed events in our company's history"
"Great! Real out-of-the-box thinking!"
"Crystallized fundamentally new perspectives for us"
"Wolfgang has become an important part of our strategic thinking network"
"Radical stuff!"
