Why Technology Matters

1. Andrew McAfee, MIT amcafee@mit.edu @amcafee andrewmcafee.org

2. What Have Been the Biggest Stories in Human History?

3. Source: Wikipedia

4. Source: Ian Morris, How the West Was Won

6. The Next Industrial Revolution

12. Technology’s Role in Competition: Overcoming HiPPOs, Mountains, and Fragments Andrew McAfee, MIT amcafee@mit.edu @amcafee andrewmcafee.org

13. Overcoming HiPPOs: Becoming More Scientific

14. How Most Companies Make Decisions

16. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1222_affinnova/1.htm

18. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1222_affinnova/2.htm

19. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1222_affinnova/2.htm

20. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1222_affinnova/2.htm

21. Overcoming Mountains: Becoming More Orchestrated

23. Tighter Orchestration through Monitoring

24. Overcoming Isolation: Enabling Self-Organization

25. The Problem, and a Solution “ If only HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive.” - Lew Platt, former CEO of HP “ Only connect!... Live in fragments no longer .” - E. M. Forster

26. Self-Organization in Action

27. Technology and Competition