Opinion | Tim Oldman In Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, the mission’s unnervingly sentient ‘Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic’ computer known as HAL, self-assuredly proclaims himself “by any practical…

Why AI will never be as complex as the human brain Bill Osmond, a Prism practitioner of over a decade, discusses the value of personality diversity within the workplace. Prism…

Interview | Hannah Finch, Editor, Leesman Insights The insatiable need of deep-learning algorithms to train on massive quantities of labelled data has spawned an entire industry of human labellers. Leila…

Dr Peggie Rothe, Development Director, Leesman Creating a workplace that supports the modern worker Theorists would have us believe that AI will lighten our workload. After all, many of us…

How to construct a physical environment that promotes imagination, invention and innovation. By Dr. Michael Bloomfield Dr. Michael Bloomfield is an anthropologist with a PhD in mankind’s creative origins, and a…

Provocateur: DAMIAN HUGHES Damian Hughes is a Professor of Organisational Psychology and Change at Manchester Metropolitan University. His latest book, The Barcelona Way: Unlocking the DNA of a High Performing…

Utilising workplace in financial services The automobile had existed for 74 years before Swede Nils Bohlin invented the seatbelt. In 1959 the Volvo employee patented his invention and flew to…

By: Dr Peggie Rothe. Employees no longer work in merely a fast-changing world, but rather a VUCA world: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. A term created by the U.S. military to…

This issue’s provocateur is James Woudhuysen. Previously chief of worldwide market intelligence at Philips consumer electronics, now visiting professor in forecasting and innovation at London South Bank University, he is…

At 19:29 on 31st May 2009, Air France flight 477 departed Rio de Janeiro bound for Paris. The 228 passengers, aircrew and cabin crew on board the aircraft would never…