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Founder & CEO of FutureWorld

Wolfgang Grulke is Founder and Chairman of FutureWorld, a global business and technology think tank, instrumental in helping major corporations and venture capital firms position themselves for the new world economy. Wolfgang is a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at the London Business School and teaches regularly on the School’s flagship Senior Executive Programme. He also works with Duke CE and Oxford University’s Said Business School. He was formerly founder and 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.

“One of the world’s most important commentators on the future” The Forbes Group

[expand title=”In detail”] 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. His article, In Search of Simplicity, won the NACCA award for the best business article of the year and From Value Chain to Marketspace was awarded the AFSM International Writing Award for Professional Writers and Consultants in Boston. He also works with Duke CE and Oxford University’s Said Business School. He is a successful writer and photographer and has been widely published, on the subjects of business, technology, management and marine life.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]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, With a superb combination of practicality and vision, real out-of- the-box thinking, exploring essential strategies for difficult times, Wolfgang shows decision makers from all fields how to create powerful communication vehicles to encourage and promote radical business and personal change. Wolfgang has addressed audiences in more than 20 countries, in person, on radio and on television.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Wolfgang is a true visionary and 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.[/expand]

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Topics

Business Transformation

Technological Revolutions

Dilemmas of Modern Management

Marine Life

Nuclear Physics

Paradigm Shifts to Chaos

Publications

2002
Lessons in Radical Innovation: Out-of-the-Box Straight to the Bottom Line

2001
Lessons in Radical Innovation: South Africans Leading the World (translated in Chinese, Arabic and Spanish)

2000
Ten Lessons from the Future (translated in Chinese, Arabic and Spanish)

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