James Woudhuysen

Speaker James Woudhuysen is a Physics graduate; Visiting Professor, London South Bank University; Co-founded and still writes for Blueprint.

Banking Branding Design Energy/Unconventional energy Global Economy Housing Information security Innovation Leadership Retail Transport

Professor James Woudhuysen graduated in physics and is currently contributing to http://www.idgconnect.com and www.spiked-online.com. His most recent clients are: Agricultural Engineers Association, Amadeus, Association of Noise Consultants, Information Security Forum, Legal Week, National Bed Federation, Oracle, Sage, Tata Global Beverages, Telefonica, Vodafone, Wells Fargo, Xerox.

Speaker James Woudhuysen helped install Britain's first computer-controlled car park, in 1968; he has written articles on chemical weapons and North Sea safety, published in The Economist, in 1978 and 1985; he designed the word processor instruction manual, in 1983; contributed to multi-client study, e-commerce, in 1988 and released a proposal for Internet TV, in 1993. James Woudhuysen was the head of worldwide market intelligence, Philips consumer electronics, Eindhoven, between 1995-7.

Speaker James Woudhuysen is a Co-author for 'Robots' (Conran Foundation, 1984), 'Why is construction so backward? (Wiley, 2004), 'Energise! A future for energy innovation' (Beautiful Books, 2009) and 'Big Potatoes: the London manifesto for innovation' (Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2012); and a Co-editor for 'The Wiley handbook of design and innovation: trends, scenarios and recommendations for 2030 and beyond' (Wiley, 2020).

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Keynotes

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Retailing and retail banking

Apart from e-commerce and m-tailing, where are the major innovations in shopping today? Why High Streets should fight the next war, not the last one. Case studies on retailing in emerging economies

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Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

Agricultural yields, drought management and precision agriculture. Is there really an obesity crisis? Role of packaging, food waste, hygiene.

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Innovation: lessons from different sectors

The crisis in Western R&D, and the shift of innovation toward the East; how low morale and the investment slump narrow the goals of innovation, and how those goals need to become more ambitious. Barriers to innovation. Innovation in project management.

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IT, automation and the future of Work

Resisting both utopias and dystopias; algorithmic fatalism and the reduction of innovation to IT; the Cloud, Seamlessness; biometrics; wearables, AR, VR, IOT, robots; cyber-security; Machine Learning. Do we really have Artificial Intelligence? Labour market trends in the US and the UK.

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Higher Education, Professional Associations

The importance of passing on the wisdom of older generations. False conceptions of education. How to think about pedagogy and todays youth. Critique of the digital immigrants thesis. Maps of university research.

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Design

The ethic of progress and the need to get closer to R&D; visualising science, improving its equipment, inspiring new applications of it; in developing countries, turning toward the idea that scale is beautiful.

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Brands

The problem with authenticity, and with brand performance tables. Lessons from the historical evolution of brands. Todays legitimacy crisis and brands.

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Business Agility and Visual Measures of Management Performance

Agility is more about mental anticipation than physical sinuousness, vital though the latter is. Leanness is about orientating all processes around what really matters to customers. Case studies: Lean IT; Origins and practitioners of Visual Management.

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