The document discusses the challenges faced by CIOs, highlighting the urgent need for digital transformation and innovation in organizations to stay competitive. It emphasizes that nearly half of business leaders believe their existing models may become obsolete soon, and it outlines key themes for addressing these challenges, including agile culture, security, and consumer-driven technology change. Additionally, it references significant digital trends and technological advancements over the past two decades.

1. The Challenges Facing CIO's Today
CIO Focus Summit | Bowden Hall Hotel Gloucester| 15 November 2017
David Terrar | Founder & CXO – Agile Elephant | @DT on Twitter
innovation | digital transformation | value creation | (r)evolution

2. Agenda
• Digital patterns
• Reset – where are we?
• Themes for the day

3. “The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn,
and relearn. ”
Alvin Toffler
volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous

5. "Move bits, not atoms."
January 1995

6. Forums – Usenet in the 70s, web based forums & bulletin board services start ‘94 – online journals ‘94
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Being Digital – Nicholas Negroponte – moving atoms to bits – published Jan ‘95
Wikis – Ward Cunningham installs first wiki Mar ‘95
Blogging – term “weblog” John Barger Dec ’97, “blog” used as noun and verb Peter Merholz Apr ‘99
Wikipedia – opens Jan ‘01
WordPress – first released May ‘03
LinkedIn – launches May ‘03
Flickr – launches Feb ‘04, acquired by Yahoo Mar ‘05
Facebook – launches Feb ‘04
iPhone – announced Jan ‘07, available Jun ‘07
iPad – launches Apr ‘10
Twitter – 1st tweet Mar ‘06, SXSW Mar ’07, Apr ‘07
Instagram – Oct ‘10
Snapchat – Jul ‘11
Tumblr – Feb ’07
WhatsApp – Feb ‘09
Pinterest – Mar ‘10
20 years of a World Gone Digital
The development of social media,
social networks and
mobile computing
YouTube – launches Feb ’05, acquired by Google Oct ‘06
Skype – launches Aug ’03, acquired by eBay ‘05, Microsoft May ‘11

7. Your business model
is under threat!

8. The Digital Enterprise Wave
ride it
or go under!

9. The Digital Enterprise Wave

12. Digital Transformation/Disruption
• Disruption is real – nearly half of all business leaders (44%)
think their existing business models will cease to exist within
the next five years.
• It’s happening quickly – half of all organisations think that
their industry will be disrupted within the next two years.
• Taking action is the only option – yet almost half (46%) of
business decision makers think their senior leadership are
unwilling to disrupt their existing businesses in order to grow
and compete more in the future.

21. Conference themes
• VUCA – we live in exciting times
• Transforming to an agile culture, using digital as an enabler
• Productivity is a bi-product of motivation
• Protecting revenues, whilst seizing new opportunities
• Where does your network end in the era of cloud
• Security needs to be redefined
• Leadership in this 4th industrial age
• Consumer driven technology change
• Security designed in from the start, not an afterthought
• GDPR risks, readiness and lessons learned
• Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate

22. Continuous Reinvention

23. References
Not for reading – just for reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Digital
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-
how-to-respond/
https://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ganZDy1CBVM
http://www.ehang.com/ehang184/gallery/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/about/ent/digital-transformation-report/default.aspx
http://gapingvoid.com/2011/07/28/permanent-state/

24. David Terrar
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