Serious Insights is a boutique analyst firm focused on understanding the future of work. We leverage our scenario-informed research into AI, collaboration, knowledge management, mobile computing, and emerging technologies to provide insights into how people might work in the future. Our research drives deep client engagements aimed at creating compelling thought leadership and differentiated strategies.
Our Principal Analyst, Daniel W. Rasmus, a respected analyst with over 30 years of industry experience, leads our research, reviews, and consulting work.
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Our popular futurist, Rasmus, explores how agile development approaches can be used for knowledge work. He discusses the application of techniques like Kanban and Scrum to knowledge discovery and maintenance with the goal of accelerating learning and creating an environment of continuous exploration.
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Dan knows all sides of the technology equation: analyst, vendor, and end-user. He served as VP of Collaboration and Knowledge Management Research at Forrester. As Director of Business Insights, he ran thought leadership for Microsoft Office. At Hughes Aircraft he developed the enterprise technology architecture and managed commercial satellite IT.
Collaboration & KM
With the recent global disruption of traditional work and the forced movement of many people to work from home (#WFH), their vision has become a reality. Unfortunately, not every organization was ready to get the most out of their remote workers. In many cases, organizations found their people were undertrained, that they had too many.
Future of Work and Strategy
Scenarios help organizations challenge assumptions, develop early warning systems, and avoid surprises. We use scenarios to faciliate strategic dialog, drive innovation, and create thought leadership. Scenarios identify the critical uncertainties related to a business area or market and use them to build narratives about the future. These narratives can then be used to explore strategic.
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Serious insights offers thought leadership and marketing services that include white paper development, webinars, facilitation, social media campaign, blogs, script development, case studies, and executive interviews.
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What Our Clients Say
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. Director of Insights at UKG.
… 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.. Institutional Effectiveness & Outcomes.
…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). Vice President, Salesforce
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Research, Reviews and Analysis
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