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Biography

Rasmus is the Founder and Principal Analyst at Serious Insights where he uses scenarios to analyze uncertainties in society, technology, economics, and politics in order to discover implications that help organizations put their future in context so they can more effectively develop and refine products, services, and experiences. Rasmus is the author of Listening to the Future, which explores his scenario work while Director of Business Insights at Microsoft. His latest non-fiction book, Management by Design, documents an innovative new methodology for work experience design. His other books include Rethinking Smart Objects (Cambridge), Understanding Artificial Intelligence (Sams), and Cyberlife (Sams). Rasmus is also the author of a book of poetry, Sketches of Spain and other poems, and a science fiction short, Twelve Ways to Escape an Alien. Rasmus has also held the positions of Chief Marketing Officer at GlobalEnglish, Vice President, and Research Director at Forrester Research. He was also the Chief Knowledge Officer of the Giga Information Group division of Forrester Research. Rasmus’s thoughts about the future of work have appeared in The African Business Review, Fast Company, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Talent Management, KMWorld, GeekWire, PopMatters, and on the Harvard Business Review blog. Rasmus writes regularly about the future of technology and business at Serious Insights. His commentary on popular culture appears on BestEntertainmentReviews.com where he serves as Managing Editor. As an internationally recognized speaker, Rasmus has addressed audiences at Enterprise 2.0, CeBIT, UBTech, The Future of Libraries, KMWorld, SAE International, Silicon Valley Comic Con and Future Trends. He was a delegate to China’s World Cultural Forum in 2012. (Full list of speaking engagements here). Rasmus is the former Visiting Liberal Arts Fellow at Bellevue College in Bellevue, WA. where he continues to teach Social Media and Personal Branding for Job Hunters. He also taught strategy and marketing at Pinchot University in Seattle, WA and has guest lectured at the University of Washington, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stanford, and Cranfield University. Rasmus attended the University of California at Santa Cruz where he studied creative writing. He received a certificate in intelligent systems engineering from the University of California at Irvine.

Content

Total articles 1061

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  Back to Basics: What is Knowledge Management? 8 Critical Ideas and a Deep Dive on Culture

  By Daniel Rasmus

  Apr. 13, 2025

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  A Practical AI Knowledge Governance Framework: Mapping AI Approaches to Knowledge Types

  By Daniel Rasmus

  Apr. 15, 2025

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  The AI Tax: 6 Core Ways Artificial Intelligence Creates More Work

  By Daniel Rasmus

  Apr. 14, 2025

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Company Info

Serious Insights

Serious insights offers consulting and advisory services that help organizations put their future in context. The company offers workshops, content development, keynote presentations from analysts and strategic advisory services. Serious Insights has a deep background in high technology, education, government and not-for-profit organizations.