network of excellence
 
 
Arie de Geus: We need to learn faster than the competition
 
"The best learning takes place by playing." In this interview, Arie de Geus talks about how learning can take place using such transitional projects, such as models. He argues that experimentation
 
Anne Jones: Learning encourages dignity and self discipline
 
Anne Jones shares her experiences as a former counsellor, which in turn helped her to promote lifelong learning. She believes that learning is intricately linked to self-esteem. Questions do not
 
Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to create it
 
One of the fathers of the idea of object-oriented programming (which he named) and he is also considered by some as the architect of the modern windowing graphical user interface (GUI). He is an
 
Brewster Kahle: We need to put the best in the hands of our children
 
The commiserate digital Librarian, director and co-founder of the Internet Archive, which is now one of the largest digital archives in the world. Kahle has built technologies, companies and
 
Natarajan Chandrasekaran: India's contribution is people not price
 
According to Natarajan Chandrasekaran not cheap labour, but the characteristics of the Indian people is the most important asset of India. The analytical mind, being used to living in complex
 
Peter Cochrane: We are in the midst of a revolution, its is time we took notice!
 
Former Head of BT Research from 1993 - 99, in 1999 he was appointed Chief Technologist. In November 2000 Peter retired from BT to join his own startup company - ConceptLabs - which he founded with a
 
Stephen Heppell: Technology should enable people to help each other
 
"The 20th century was about building big things to help people. The 21st century will be about building things for people to help each other." Stephen Heppell states unequivocally in this interview
 
Jorgen Randers: I begin by asking: Where is the feedback?
 
Former president of Norwegian School of Management, is currently a professor at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of a number of Norwegian
 
Tim O'Reilly: Focus on the companies that survived the dot-com crash.
 
The key focus of Tim O'Reilly's interview was on the Web 2.0 movement. Web 2.0 companies, as described in this interview, harness collective intelligence. Companies who are able to do this create an
 
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Deep interviews, with excellence.  From former prime-ministers and CEOs to academics and artists, we consult our network of excellence to help us understand the world better.  The DTN conducts interviews on a regular basis to deepen insight into why things happen and how they connect rather than just reporting on trends.  

We believe that we can support executive decision making better by deep global insights into the nature of our changing world.  Some exerts of the interviews are linked below for your perusal. Since 1996 The DTN has been facilitating leading edge learning processes, deepening strategy through scenario planning or as we prefer to call it scenario thinking and pioneering the use of the Internet for large scale learning processes.
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