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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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Serious Insights Top Research of 2022

Serious Insights Top Research of 2022

The IT Leader’s Guide to the Best of CES 2023

The IT Leader’s Guide to the Best of CES 2023

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

Developing a Winning Thought Leadership Strategy

Developing a Winning Thought Leadership Strategy


Recent and Upcoming Events

Mar5

When:Mar 5, 2023 11:00 am
Where:Seattle Convention Center

Science and science fiction have been inspiring each other for more than a century. Now that space exploration is close to becoming a reality, how are the real and imagined visions of our future in the stars coming together? Join Max Fagin of space exploration firm Blue Origin, MIT grad and writer Amy Chu (Summit, Dejah Thoris, Carmilla), and artist Dustin Nguyen (Descender, Ascender) in an out-of-this-world conversation with author/futurist Daniel W. Rasmus (University of Washington).

Mar30

Biggerplate Education Webinar: Mind Mapping for Educators: Creating an Adaptive Syllabus

When:Mar 30, 2023 8:15 am
Where:Biggerplate Webinar (register here)

Dan will discuss how to use mind mapping to create a syllabus that can easily adapt to different instructional modalities and aid in the construction of Canvas modules.

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CES 2023

When:Jan 3, 2023 9:00 am
Where:Las Vegas

Dan will be available all week for meetings. Request a meeting with Dan via this form.

See our CES 2023 coverage here.


 

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.

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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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Daniel W. Rasmus
Analysis, Reviews and Commentary have Appeared in…

  • AI Expert
  • Astronomy
  • Business Partner Magazine
  • Byte
  • CIO and CIO.com
  • Chief Learning Officer
  • Computers In Libraries
  • Crosscut
  • Distributed Object Computing (columnist)
  • FastCompany.com
  • Geekwire.com
  • Government ELearning!
  • HBR.com
  • InformationWeek
  • Innovate (Fischler School of Education and Human Services, Nova Southeastern University)
  • Insurance
  • Intelligent Enterprise
  • Intelligent Systems
  • iPhoneLife (columnist)
  • Knowledge Management Review
  • MACazine
  • MacGuide
  • MacTech Quarterly
  • MacToday
  • MacUser
  • MacWeek
  • MacWorld
  • Manufacturing Systems (editor)
  • Mondo 2000
  • NASA ASK
  • Object Magazine (columnist)
  • P&IM Review (columnist)
  • PC AI (columnist & editor)
  • PC Magazine
  • PCWeek/eWEEK
  • Pen Computing
  • People Matters
  • PopMatters
  • Pund-IT
  • Strategy+Business
  • Talent Management
  • The Office
  • University Business
  • UNIX Review
  • Wired
  • Workstation News

 

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