The document outlines key lessons in digital transformation, emphasizing that change is exponential and necessitates speed and agility. It identifies a shift in workforce dynamics where users are decision-makers and highlights the importance of exceptional talent and alternative hiring approaches. Additionally, the document encourages risk-taking and challenging the status quo in order to adapt to ongoing transformations.

1. Matt Alder
Metashift
Digital Transformation:
Lessons from Surfing the Wave

2. TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY RECRUITMENT
MARKETING
STRATEGY
CONSULTING

3. www.rfpodcast.com

4. Digital Transformation?

8. Digital Transformation - Photography
Digital Transformation - Photography

9. Digital Transformation - Travel

10. Digital Transformation - Newspapers

11. An Ongoing Process With No End Point

12. The Role Of HR?

13. Transforming Itself

14. Helping to Transform

15. Challenges
• Education
• Tunnel Vision & Silos
• Lack of Resources
• No Common Vision

16. Lesson 1:
Change Is Exponential

18. 2016

19. Exponential Growth
Invisible
Post
Rationalize

20. It will never catch on…..

22. • Change initiatives focused round
technology will be out of date before they
are completed
• Speed and agility are essential
Key Learnings

23. Lesson 2:
There Is A Revolution At Work

24. 1994

25. 2016

26. Remote Year
http://bit.ly/remotepodcast

27. Gig Economy

28. The On Demand Workforce
http://bit.ly/upworkinterview

30. The User Is The Decision Maker

31. • Everything about work is changing
• Control is an illusion
• The user is the decision maker
Key Learnings

32. Lesson 3:
Exceptional Talent Wins

33. Exceptional Talent?
People Who Possess the:
• Skills
• Attitude
• Flexibility
• Development Potential
That can help businesses grow and evolve

34. Motivations?

35. Actual Motivations
• Great Work
• Making a Difference
• Learning New Skills
• Team and Culture
• Salary and Benefits

36. Hire Differently
http://bit.ly/HouseFraserHiring

37. Grow Your Own

38. • Understanding motivation is crucial
• Think differently about hiring
• You will have to grow your own talent
Key Learnings

39. Lesson 4:
Perfect Is Not Best

42. "Better a diamond with a
flaw than a pebble without"
Confucious

43. The User Is The Decision Maker

44. • Taking risks is compulsory
• Move beyond the “tried and tested”
• The user is the decision maker
Key Learnings

45. Lesson 5:
Think The Unthinkable

46. 2GB!! More storage than you could ever possibly use

50. • Question your assumptions
• Challenge the status quo
• Keep questioning and challenging
Key Learnings

51. Summary

52. • Change Is Exponential
• There Is a Revolution At Work
• Exceptional Talent Wins
• Perfect Is Not Best
• Think The Unthinkable
Five Key Lessons

53. matt@metashift.co.uk
www.rfpodcast.com
www.linkedin.com/in/mattalder
@mattalder
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