Profiting from Accelerating Change Ross Dawson Futurist, Entrepreneur, Strategy Advisor, Author

Source : US DoC; Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

Shift to clean energy

Deleveraging Source : US Federal Reserve US$ billion

A time of dislocation

Taking diverging paths

Source : UK Office of National Statistics

EXPONENTIAL DRIVERS COMMODITIZATION EXPECTATIONS

EXPONENTIAL DRIVERS COMMODITIZATION EXPECTATIONS

Bandwidth grows Source : Cisco, Approaching the Zettabyte Era

Computing power soars

EXPONENTIAL DRIVERS COMMODITIZATION EXPECTATIONS

Squeezing out the inefficiencies

Transparency drives business relationships

Speed to market is the heart of competition

EXPONENTIAL DRIVERS COMMODITIZATION EXPECTATIONS

We expect more

Creating the next billion middle class

More money and more refined taste

We are now participants

Accountability for everything

EXPONENTIAL DRIVERS Bandwidth Processing power Man-machine interfaces COMMODITIZATION Efficiency Speed Global markets Information access EXPECTATIONS Aspiration Luxury Participation Accountability

Scale-free networks everywhere

How valuable are your relationships?

Industries are networks

Increased media consumption Source: Carat

Fragmentation

Organizations are media

Innovation and global networks Concept Development Environment Funding Intellectual property Scaling Global markets

Tapping your customers’ ideas

Getting the world’s brightest

The two layers of organizations… Ad-hoc networks Standardized processes

Finding what you need

How organizations really work

What is Enterprise 2.0? The application of Web 2.0 and other collaboration technologies to enhance organizational performance. 1 2 Establishing the organizational structures and processes that will drive success in an intensely competitive connected economy.

The only way you can control your destiny is to be more flexible than your environment - The Law of Requisite Variety

Forecasting and scenarios Beyond the limits of forecasting

Thinking about the future of drilling Source: Global Business Network & Peter Schwartz

Life is full of surprises Source: Global Business Network & Peter Schwartz

Strategy in the flow economy

Develop strategy based on industry networks Pull together the best global talent Create more flexible organizations Tap internal and external innovation Experiment, learn, refine Use downturns to invest and reposition Strategic action

We have a choice