Sydney Business Insights

This week: all about cobalt, a behind the scenes look at the challenges of transitioning to renewable energy technologies. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/cobalt-not-exactly-the-new-oil-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: with so much talk of the great resignation, the great realignment, job swap and early retirement, what is actually going on and what do we need to know about it? Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-great-resignation-on-the-future-this-week Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: all the numbers of climate change and what they mean from the COP26 in Glasgow, with our expert Professor Christopher Wright. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-numbers-of-climate-change-and-cop26-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: rebranding the company and the metaverse play: we discuss the Facebook announcements, meta and verse. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/meta-and-the-metaverse-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: the podcast about podcasts, how Spotify’s ambitions might change podcasts forever, plus LinkedIn getting out of China and Norway’s EVs in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/what-spotify-is-doing-to-podcasts-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: Squid Game, the biggest hit in Netflix history is re-shaping the future of movies and television. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/squid-game-and-the-future-of-content-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: we’re on a break but we have something interesting in store for you, and it’s not just Mr Goxx the cryptocurrency trading hamster. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/unlearn-computers-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: COVID, climate and containers: how the world weathers the global logistics crisis and a quick look at the Facebook files, ByteDance, finfluencers, Shell gets out of shale and AR spiders. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/weathering-the-perfect-storm-of-container-shipping-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: Finfluencers - more and more young people get their financial advice on TikTok and other social media platforms. Also, robot vacuums and pet poop AI and the epic #Epic #Apple battle comes to a temporary end. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/finfluencers-and-tiktok-financial-advice-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: we’re back and what does #BreakUpBigTech have to do with your chicken? There's also Abba-tars, Gartner all hype no cycle, Musk’s humanoid robots and laser weed zapping ones, COVID AI disappointment, the IPCC report and everything else we’ve missed. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/break-up-big-chicken-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project. You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Season 10 of The Future, This Week is almost here. But in the meantime, we've been working on something new… Introducing The Unlearn Project, our new podcast about changing common sense. The way the world works has changed. Things you thought you knew like automation will make our work easier, music is something to listen to, large companies can’t innovate, or data is the new oil are no longer true. Hosts Sandra Peter and Kai Riemer set out to unlearn old wisdoms and discover new ones. From Sydney Business Insights at the University of Sydney Business School. Music by Cinephonix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Social capital, networking and the office: part four of a series looking at shifting working practices, distributed and hybrid work. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/social-capital-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wellbeing, burnout and memory fog: part three of a series looking at shifting working practices, distributed and hybrid work. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/wellbeing-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Revisiting productivity and remote work: part two of a series looking at shifting working practices, distributed and hybrid work. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/productivity-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Revisiting working from home (WFH): part one of a series looking at shifting working practices, distributed and hybrid work. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/working-from-home-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As remote work continues for many people, what is Zoom fatigue and what to do about it, and how are videoconferencing platforms adapting their services to the hybrid future? As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/still-zooming-on-corona-business-insights Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We look at lessons learned from the use of digital contact tracing apps, launched with great promise early in the pandemic, but now largely regarded as ineffective by many countries. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/contact-tracing-revisited-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: What if the science behind your favourite TED Talk was wrong? Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/ted-talks-and-science-on-the-future-this-week/ You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Our theme music was composed and played by Linsey Pollak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: how COVID-19 reveals how the fashion industry predicts trends, and why the success of solar becomes a problem. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/predicting-fashion-and-replacing-solar-on-the-future-this-week/ You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Our theme music was composed and played by Linsey Pollak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: what we saw when the internet went down and changing minds about the scientific paradox. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/breaking-the-internet-and-the-scientific-paradox-on-the-future-this-week/ You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat. Send us your news ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails. Our theme music was composed and played by Linsey Pollak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.