Robert Plant

Robert Plant

Ph.D., C.Eng, E.Eng, FBCS

FL, US
A technology thought leader, Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review author, Dr. Robert Plant translates the tech-future into strategic execution for today's executives.

Technology thought leader and Harvard Business Review author, Dr. Robert Plant translates the tech-future into strategic execution for today's executives.

Executive leadership is about seeing the future before anyone else. Unfortunately, many executives have difficulty identifying the key events and signs that signal a transformational change in the technology landscape is about to occur. Careers and business empires have been won and lost on these moments, and just as the technologies that surround us today were all just once dots on the technology horizon, new technologies and initiatives are permeating and bubbling up on that horizon to take their place. The question every executive must therefore address is how to recognize them and what will their emergence mean for their organization.

A polymath thought leader on new technologies and their impact on business strategy, Robert brings to his lectures and writing a unique perspective. One gained from combining his formal training in theoretical computer science and a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence with a twenty five year career as a Business School Professor. During which he has undertaken teaching and research at leading universities around the world. He is based at the epicenter of the Americas, in Miami where he is Director of The Intelligent Computer Systems Research Institute.

Constantly visiting technology firms; research labs; entrepreneurial start-ups, and communicating with businesses leaders enables Robert to identify and link together the jig saw of pieces that ultimately combine into emergent technologies. This is a challenging task, these puzzle pieces are continually morphing as they and their ecosystems interact with one another, but one that he embraces and has molded into his 'everything is a case study' methodology, analysis method. Renound as an energetic speaker, he shares his insights with a touch of British humor and a global perspective to his corporate audiences, at executive workshops, as well as working in personal one-on-one executive coaching sessions.

Technology thought leader and Harvard Business Review author, Dr. Robert Plant translates the tech-future into strategic execution for today's executives.

Executive leadership is about seeing the future before anyone else. Unfortunately, many executives have difficulty identifying the key events and signs that signal a transformational change in the technology landscape is about to occur. Careers and business empires have been won and lost on these moments, and just as the technologies that surround us today were all just once dots on the technology horizon, new technologies and initiatives are permeating and bubbling up on that horizon to take their place. The question every executive must therefore address is how to recognize them and what will their emergence mean for their organization.

A polymath thought leader on new technologies and their impact on business strategy, Robert brings to his lectures and writing a unique perspective. One gained from combining his formal training in theoretical computer science and a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence with a twenty five year career as a Business School Professor. During which he has undertaken teaching and research at leading universities around the world. He is based at the epicenter of the Americas, in Miami where he is Director of The Intelligent Computer Systems Research Institute.

Constantly visiting technology firms; research labs; entrepreneurial start-ups, and communicating with businesses leaders enables Robert to identify and link together the jig saw of pieces that ultimately combine into emergent technologies. This is a challenging task, these puzzle pieces are continually morphing as they and their ecosystems interact with one another, but one that he embraces and has molded into his 'everything is a case study' methodology, analysis method. Renound as an energetic speaker, he shares his insights with a touch of British humor and a global perspective to his corporate audiences, at executive workshops, as well as working in personal one-on-one executive coaching sessions.

The Competitive Power of Counter Intuitive Thinking

Outside of Silicon Valley, a counterintuitive style of thinking is rare in the modern organization. It is, after all, the antithesis of process-driven, rules-based work practices, which are enforced through enterprise systems and cultural norms.

Counterintuitive leaders question everything. They play, they experiment-and they frequently fail. But in doing so, they continually work to close the gap between use and need, between theory and practice. They are the ones that come up with the...

Audience Activity

Soft Surveillance - Risks and Opportunities around the Consumer

Based upon Robert Plant's widely read and cited Harvard Business Review Articles "Retailers Turn to "Soft Surveillance" to Fight Customer Anonymity." Brand Intelligence = Big Data + Customer Intelligence       (available from HBR China)
 

The presentation looks at the emerging and radical approach to gathering customer data Plant termed "soft surveillance. " It makes use of concepts such as heat signature trails in stores left by cosumer,...
Educational / Informative

Re-shoring - Bringing Manufacturing Home

Based upon Dr. Plant's articles for Chatham House - The Institue for International Affairs London, and his presentation at Harvard Business Review China Forum 2014, this article looks at how the USA is regaining its manufacturing base and reasserting its leadership in technology-based manufacturing.

The influence of the 3D technology philosophy is amplified by tectonic shifts that are occurring in the global economic landscape, where several major factors are combining to cause...

Educational / Informative

The World is Not Flat - Its Bumpy

Based upon Dr. Plant's articles for Chatham House - The Institue for International Affairs London, and his presentation at Harvard Business Review China Forum 2014, and work in the China People's Daily this article looks at how the USA is regaining its manufacturing base and reasserting its leadership in technology-based manufacturing.

The influence of the 3D technology philosophy is amplified by tectonic shifts that are occurring in the global economic landscape, where several major...

Educational / Informative

Your a Tech company, you may just not know it!

Based upon 30 years of research and teaching in technology Dr. Plant shows how every company is in fact a technology company, and if they dont think they are why their competitor who does will ultimatly win the competitive race. 

A though provoking and soul searching journey is undertaken by executive audiences in this presentation where difficult questions are asked so the audience can come away introspecting on their corporate technology strategy. 

As...
Educational / Informative