According to Mike Walsh, an internationally recognised futurist, the biggest impact of the digital revolution so far has been on the media, entertainment and communications sector - adding that “I believe the next big sectors to be transformed will be retail, finance and health. This article appear in Turkish newspaper ‘Hurriyet'. 

What will the jobs of the future be and how will it impact the business models of tomorrow. Read this profile piece from Turkish newspaper ‘Haber Turk’ and find out.

MANILA, Philippines — Mike Walsh, the CEO of consumer innovation research agency Tomorrow and author of Futuretainment, shared an interesting anecdote on consumer-driven innovation at the Globe Business Enterprise Innovation Forum earlier this week. Somewhere in the remote interior of mainland China, his story went, a poor agriculture-based village purchased a communal Haier washing machine, and was quite pleased with its performance. 

Law graduate Mike Walsh endured 10 rounds of interviews and an exhaustive series of tests before he was offered the prize of a job with McKinsey & Co. It was 1999 and this was to be his ticket to a bright future – but he turned it down. Instead, he jumped on a plane for the United States, enthralled by the possibilities offered by the development of the internet. In that heady time of start-ups, it took little time for lunch in New York with a friend to be converted to an offer to head the Australian office of research company Internet.com (later, Jupiter Research).