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Welcome to Serious Insights

Serious Insights

Thought leadership grounded in real leadership

Serious Insights is a boutique analyst firm dedicated to helping our customers navigate change effectively. Our clients ask us to help them rethink strategy, challenge assumptions about products and services, and discover new ways to learn from customers.

We stay close to technology by evaluating the most innovative, useful, and well-made hardware and software. We also contribute our own perspectives on industry news and emerging ideas.

Our Principal Analyst, Daniel W. Rasmus, a respected analyst with over 30 years of industry experience, leads Serious Insights’ research, reviews, and consulting engagements.

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Star Trek Books: 3 Books, 9 Takeaways for Business Leaders

Star Trek Books: 3 Books, 9 Takeaways for Business Leaders

Co-Existing with the ChatGPT: Standing Up to AI’s Attack on Writing and Art

Co-Existing with the ChatGPT: Standing Up to AI’s Attack on Writing and Art

CIO Priorities 2023: What CIOs need to Worry About in Early 2023

CIO Priorities 2023: What CIOs need to Worry About in Early 2023

12 Hybrid Work Fears Managers Must Face

12 Hybrid Work Fears Managers Must Face

Welcome to the Serendipity Economy

Welcome to the Serendipity Economy

Developing a Winning Thought Leadership Strategy

Developing a Winning Thought Leadership Strategy


Recent and Upcoming Events

Jan7

CES

When:Jan 7, 2024 7:00 pm
Where:Las Vegas

Meet with Dan at CES. He will be attending ShowStoppers, Pepcom, and Unveiled, as well as taking briefings and touring the floor.

Feb5

Impact 2024: AI & The Future of Business

When:Feb 5, 2024 10:52 am
Where:St. Petersburg, FL

Board of Advisors on this AI conference. Will be presenting on the future of AI. (Registration information here). Use “ADVISOR” for a discount when registering.

Mar12

Scenario Planning Workshops and Presentations

When:Mar 12, 2024 2:30 pm
Where:Crystal City, Virginia (Details here)

On-site futurist. Workshop on scenario planning. Sessions on innovation and the future of libraries, including a look back at a keynote from 2010.

Nov9

Why Generative AI Isn’t Coming for Your Job

When:Nov 9, 2023 1:00 pm
Where:Washington, DC

Rasmus examines the techniques employed under the hood by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and the new Bing. He helps us understand why these tools still require human review of the outputs and why their art and language are racing not toward innovation but to mediocrity. He shares insights about the future of AI that look at the social, political, and economic factors that will determine how the technology will evolve—or not—in the future. Link.

Oct12

The Promise and Future of Generative AI

When:Oct 12, 2023 9:30 am
Where:Lisbon, Portugal

Discussing applications and methodologies for generative AI, and exploring its future.


 

Client Testimonials

Rana Stanfill-Hobbs

Dan excels in strategic design and the ability to synthesize internal and external factors into meaningful scenarios and recommendations. He is an exceptional speaker who is able to take an audience beyond the familiar and guide them into a future state view of the world that is relevant to them.

Rana Stanfill-Hobbs

Director of Insights at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)

Robin Jeffers

… Every time the higher ed landscape changes, I say to myself, “Yup, that was in Dan’s possible futures.” That was the most useful exercise I’ve ever participated in at BC. Kinda think it changed my perspective as far as professional presentations go: I’ve been watching the future unfold ever since..

Robin Jeffers

Institutional Effectiveness & Outcomes Assessment, Bellevue College

Matt Miszewski

…Dan has helped my team better execute in a global marketplace by understanding and contextualizing the confusing trends in our world (worldwide political and governmental industry).

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