The rise of the "algorithmic advisers" requires a change in attitude and mindset from the financial advice and planning communities. Futurist and chief executive of global consultancy firm Tomorrow, Mike Walsh, told the 2017 Financial Planning Association Professionals Congress that sweeping technological change driven by complex algorithms is nothing to fear as it's simply "not unique."

At a time when technological developments and disruptions are rapidly changing the world of work, many experts are saying that in order to meet the challenges of the coming New Work Order, what we need to do is, perhaps, to give up on jobs.

Businesses need to figure out how to engage millennials or risk having their market share snapped up by more agile companies, according to futurist and author Mike Walsh.

Speaking at an event hosted by realestate.com.au in Melbourne on Friday, Walsh said businesses need to be investing in new tools and technology now in order to not get left behind.

So-called OTT players will struggle along with telecoms operators to sustain success in the long term unless they can think bigger about the full impact of digital disruption.

That was the warning shot fired by ‘futurist’ Michael Walsh during his keynote at Amdocs’ APAC summit in Singapore last week.

But the common denominator for both, insisted Walsh, will be finding a new level of customer engagement as the next wave of OTT companies puts pressure on the “incumbents”.

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'. 

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.