This document discusses how to spot and respond to digital disruption. It begins by providing an example of how Uber and Lyft disrupted taxi services at San Francisco International Airport and how the airport responded. It then defines digital disruption and disruptors. Digital disruptors are organizations that use digital capabilities like new technologies or business models to drive fundamental shifts in their market.
The document discusses four elements of digital disruption: business, technology, industry, and society. It provides examples of well-known digital disruptors like Facebook, Netflix, Google, and Amazon and how they impacted these elements. It also categorizes potential disruptors. Key points for spotting disruption include separating fads from long-term impacts, monitoring customer behavior and investment trends
Types of Blockchain - permissioned vs. permissionless platforms
Types of AI - Unsupervised, Supervised and Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning
Future of Blockchain and AI
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Obviously, this is not an exhaustive list of every technology and societal trend bringing about disruption on planet Earth. What follows thought definitely affects the evolution of digital Darwinism, the evolution of society and technology and its impact on behavior, expectations and customs.
What is Digital transformation?
Far too often digital transformation is confused with Digitalization or with Digitization with a key focus on technologies or platform. But Digital transformation is not about technologies: it's about transforming the whole prganisation through a system thinking approach and it's about rethinking operational models, business models, processes, and policies, taking people, both employees and customers at the core of the process.
Because the goal of any digital transformation is to increase value creation for the business through digitally enhanced processes that increase internal efficiency and overall customer and employee satisfaction.
Digital transformation is en emergent need in today's post-industrial society: we moved fast from an industrial to a post-industrial era, however operational models and management practices haven't evolved fast enough.
For this reason, many organisations prefer to think of Digital transformation as the adoption of digital technologies on the top of mainly inefficient and obsolete operational models, rather than facing a true in depth transformation that begins with understanding the current culture, the customers, and the overall business.
These slides, were presented to students from IIM (india) at ESPC London on July 27th 2017 with the goal to provide tomorrow's digital leaders a broad vision of what is digital transformation by looking at what and the reasons why change is happening in the business world, define Digital transformation and its dimensions through the lenses of an Experience economy and a post-industrial era. The presentation also presents the Competing Value Framework as a key tool to start understanding organsation's culture and define a digital transformation roadmap and strategy.
Author mentioned (and inspirers):
- Daniel Bell (the post-industrial society)
- Joe Pine (Experience Economy
- The ClueTrain Manifesto
- Quinn and Cameron's Competing design framework
- Brian Solis
- Nichola Negroponte
Accenture identifies what motivates consumers & how these motivations lead to changing consumer expectations, preferences & shopping habits. Read more.
The Five Biggest Tech Trends Transforming Government In 2022Bernard Marr
The digital transformation of governments and public authorities has been accelerated during the global pandemic. Here we look at the key technology trends, including digital identity management, automation of public services using artificial intelligence, the increasing importance of cyber security as well as the role of national cryptocurrencies.
Types of Blockchain - permissioned vs. permissionless platforms
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26 Disruptive & Technology Trends 2016 - 2018Brian Solis
Introducing the “26 Disruptive Technology Trends for 2016 – 2018.” In this report, we’ll explore some of the disruptive trends that are affecting pretty much everything over the next few years at least those that I’m following. It’s not just tech, though. The report is organized by socioeconomic and technological impact.
Obviously, this is not an exhaustive list of every technology and societal trend bringing about disruption on planet Earth. What follows thought definitely affects the evolution of digital Darwinism, the evolution of society and technology and its impact on behavior, expectations and customs.
What is Digital transformation?
Far too often digital transformation is confused with Digitalization or with Digitization with a key focus on technologies or platform. But Digital transformation is not about technologies: it's about transforming the whole prganisation through a system thinking approach and it's about rethinking operational models, business models, processes, and policies, taking people, both employees and customers at the core of the process.
Because the goal of any digital transformation is to increase value creation for the business through digitally enhanced processes that increase internal efficiency and overall customer and employee satisfaction.
Digital transformation is en emergent need in today's post-industrial society: we moved fast from an industrial to a post-industrial era, however operational models and management practices haven't evolved fast enough.
For this reason, many organisations prefer to think of Digital transformation as the adoption of digital technologies on the top of mainly inefficient and obsolete operational models, rather than facing a true in depth transformation that begins with understanding the current culture, the customers, and the overall business.
These slides, were presented to students from IIM (india) at ESPC London on July 27th 2017 with the goal to provide tomorrow's digital leaders a broad vision of what is digital transformation by looking at what and the reasons why change is happening in the business world, define Digital transformation and its dimensions through the lenses of an Experience economy and a post-industrial era. The presentation also presents the Competing Value Framework as a key tool to start understanding organsation's culture and define a digital transformation roadmap and strategy.
Author mentioned (and inspirers):
- Daniel Bell (the post-industrial society)
- Joe Pine (Experience Economy
- The ClueTrain Manifesto
- Quinn and Cameron's Competing design framework
- Brian Solis
- Nichola Negroponte
Accenture identifies what motivates consumers & how these motivations lead to changing consumer expectations, preferences & shopping habits. Read more.
The Five Biggest Tech Trends Transforming Government In 2022Bernard Marr
The digital transformation of governments and public authorities has been accelerated during the global pandemic. Here we look at the key technology trends, including digital identity management, automation of public services using artificial intelligence, the increasing importance of cyber security as well as the role of national cryptocurrencies.
Impact of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning on Workforce CapabilityLearningCafe
The application of AI/ML is reshaping the job market and will eventually create new jobs & roles that we can’t even imagine today. Reskilling the workforce and reforming learning and career models will play a critical role in facilitating this change. The question remains if that will be provided by the traditional internal HR/L&D team or some other model.
Using Industry 4.0 Technologies to Enrich Manufacturing SMEs in EgyptNile University
This presentation is a Proposal of how Industry 4.0 technologies can enrich the manufacturing SMEs in Egypt by describing the potential, challenges, and recommendations for successful implementation.
This publication serves as the first in-depth DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) thought leadership report on the global and local gaming and esports ecosystem. It gathers contributions from key opinion leaders to share their views on where the gaming and esports industry is heading and places emphasis on the drivers of gaming and esports from a technology, culture and business perspective.
Digital Transformation From Strategy To ImplementationScopernia
Creating a digital transformation strategy is one thing but how do you put the insights and plans into practice. This presentation deals with vision, strategy, roadmap, governance, leadership, channel hacking, start-up-thinking and many more issues.
In its 7th edition, the report outlines the most important trends for businesses and consumers in 2020. In this webinar, we will share our recommendations on what clients should do to take action and adapt quickly.
AI is an interdisciplinary science with multiple approaches. that’s why we can see a lot of answers to the question “What is Artificial Intelligence?” , there is no singular definition of AI that is universally accepted.
At its core, Artificial Intelligence is a constellation of many different technologies that are capable of performing tasks requiring human intelligence. When applied to the usual business tasks, these technologies can learn, act, and perform with human-like levels of intelligence. It is used to simulate human intelligence in machines, saving us a lot of time and money in doing business.
Why, When and How Do I Start a Digital Transformation?Acquia
Presented at Acquia Engage APAC by Brittany Fox, Marketing Campaign Strategist, Deloitte.
Every organisation undergoing a marketing transformation has a starting point, with the difference only being the product of internal capability and maturity. At Deloitte, we take our clients from their starting point to being ready for whatever the next innovation is. This is the only real mechanism enterprises can implement for the future.
AI and the Future of Work [TUG-CO, 11/15/23]Matt Small
This talk was given to the Tech User Group, Central Oregon on November 15th, 2023.
~~
AI revolutionizes the way we interact with information. It will change the way we work. In this talk, we will introduce the fundamental concepts and the latest research and policies in the field. We will then explore numerous opportunities and societal challenges related to technology adoption, work augmentation and identity. Finally, we will introduce Personal AI and the mission of Kwaai Lab.
Kwaai Lab, a non-profit, volunteer-based open-source AI lab, is composed of researchers, architects, developers, and philosophers. Our goal is to design and implement the tools, fundamentals, and policies that empower us all to own our own Personal AI assistants.
The Top Trends in Digital Marketing for 2023 Searchonic
Check our latest infographics on the topic “The Top Trends in Digital Marketing for 2023”. Discover the top digital marketing trends to watch out for in 2023 with this infographic.
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This Altimeter Group webinar explores the findings of our latest research report on digital transformation. Attendees will learn what digital transformation is, how companies are embracing change, the challenges and opportunities that emerge throughout the process, and how to refocus and reorganize teams to modernize, optimize, and integrate digital touchpoints.
Watch the webinar: https://www.slideshare.net/Altimeter/webinar-digital-transformation-with-brian-solis
Download the related report: altimetergroup.com/digitaltransformation/
Culture is the heart of any organization. It is like oxygen which we can feel but cannot see and without which we cannot survive. In organizations, culture is like the DNA of an organization thus each organization is a unique one.
Workshop digital transformation strategy digital road-map trainingMiodrag Kostic, CMC
Presentation "Digital transformation strategy workshop" Interactive training course on how to create digital strategy and digital road map for digital transformation?
Miodrag Kostic, CMC, CDC
Certified digital transformation expert - consultant
http://www.businessknowledge.biz/
http://www.miodragkostic.com/
Insights on digital transformation on a global scale, how marketing technology has evolved and its impact for those in leadership and managing positions today.
From experimental type leadership, understanding digital culture to change management, what does it take for today's digital leaders to see real organization change, for becoming a digital-first organization.
E: info@enablerspace.com | T: +662 297 0289
160+ Companies, 7 layers, 9 megatrends, 1 creator-led future. The metaverse is not “a” metaverse. It is the next generation of the Internet: a decentralized multiverse, led by a new and abundant generation of creators.
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What Are The Latest Trends in Data Science?Bernard Marr
The benefits of a data-driven approach to business are well established but not set in stone. The relentless march of technological progress means the boundaries of what is possible are constantly being redrawn, spawning new behaviors, trends and buzzwords.
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This publication serves as the first in-depth DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) thought leadership report on the global and local gaming and esports ecosystem. It gathers contributions from key opinion leaders to share their views on where the gaming and esports industry is heading and places emphasis on the drivers of gaming and esports from a technology, culture and business perspective.
Digital Transformation From Strategy To ImplementationScopernia
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In its 7th edition, the report outlines the most important trends for businesses and consumers in 2020. In this webinar, we will share our recommendations on what clients should do to take action and adapt quickly.
AI is an interdisciplinary science with multiple approaches. that’s why we can see a lot of answers to the question “What is Artificial Intelligence?” , there is no singular definition of AI that is universally accepted.
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Why, When and How Do I Start a Digital Transformation?Acquia
Presented at Acquia Engage APAC by Brittany Fox, Marketing Campaign Strategist, Deloitte.
Every organisation undergoing a marketing transformation has a starting point, with the difference only being the product of internal capability and maturity. At Deloitte, we take our clients from their starting point to being ready for whatever the next innovation is. This is the only real mechanism enterprises can implement for the future.
AI and the Future of Work [TUG-CO, 11/15/23]Matt Small
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~~
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Watch the webinar: https://www.slideshare.net/Altimeter/webinar-digital-transformation-with-brian-solis
Download the related report: altimetergroup.com/digitaltransformation/
Culture is the heart of any organization. It is like oxygen which we can feel but cannot see and without which we cannot survive. In organizations, culture is like the DNA of an organization thus each organization is a unique one.
Workshop digital transformation strategy digital road-map trainingMiodrag Kostic, CMC
Presentation "Digital transformation strategy workshop" Interactive training course on how to create digital strategy and digital road map for digital transformation?
Miodrag Kostic, CMC, CDC
Certified digital transformation expert - consultant
http://www.businessknowledge.biz/
http://www.miodragkostic.com/
Insights on digital transformation on a global scale, how marketing technology has evolved and its impact for those in leadership and managing positions today.
From experimental type leadership, understanding digital culture to change management, what does it take for today's digital leaders to see real organization change, for becoming a digital-first organization.
E: info@enablerspace.com | T: +662 297 0289
160+ Companies, 7 layers, 9 megatrends, 1 creator-led future. The metaverse is not “a” metaverse. It is the next generation of the Internet: a decentralized multiverse, led by a new and abundant generation of creators.
By 2020, 50 billion devices will be connected to the internet, creating $19 trillion of economic value. in this world of digital newcomers toppling traditional giants, it’s time to disrupt or risk being disrupted
What Are The Latest Trends in Data Science?Bernard Marr
The benefits of a data-driven approach to business are well established but not set in stone. The relentless march of technological progress means the boundaries of what is possible are constantly being redrawn, spawning new behaviors, trends and buzzwords.
Future Trends of AI and Analytics in the CloudBernard Marr
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be the most powerful and transformative technology the business world has ever seen, helping us make smarter decisions, automate tasks and fully realize the value of the data businesses are generating at an ever-growing rate.
Only few organizations wise up to new digital competitors, as they usually come from outside their own sector and are not taken seriously at first. Their allegedly inferior propositions confuse prominent players, who should in fact be the very first to be fully aware of potentially disruptive innovation.
To swing into action rapidly, existing organizations would be well advised to properly analyze anything resembling digital competition. Evidently, there are clear patterns behind the startup success marking a new techno-economic reality. Ecosystems, APIs, and platforms characterize this New Normal where customers have more freedom of choice and better service at lower costs.
These successful disruptors are called two-sided market players, also known as multi-sided platform players. Companies like Uber and Airbnb are getting all the media attention, however there are over 9000 players (and counting) active in almost every industry.
The new VINT report explores the new digital competition and presents:
A analysis of the success factors of disruption
10 design principles of the new digital competition like Unbundle your organization processes, APIs first. Access over ownership and Building trust with social systems
The need for every business to develop a API-strategy
An appeal to the CIO and the IT department to use a leading digital approach and map out an offensive technological route.
The Digital Enterprise Vol 5 - A Framework for TransformationStuart Lamb
We outline the many aspects of digital transformation and a roadmap for getting there. This issue of Perspectives exudes the enthusiasm and capabilities that TCS has in
supporting the transformation ahead.
Exploring new mobile and cloud platforms without a governance .docxssuser454af01
Exploring new mobile and cloud platforms without a governance strategy can
have consequences.
At the beginning of my IT career, I witnessed a number of decisions and project management practices which, at the
time, just didn't seem to make sense. But I was young, and I often thought to myself that the people involved must have
some other reasoning, some justification for their actions that I was just not privy to.
In short, I remained quiet when I should have spoken up. What two decades of experience has taught me is that there
is rarely reasoning or justification behind actions that, at a gut-level, are clearly bad IT practices. We inherently
recognize when common sense has taken a back seat.
There is most definitely a dark side to BYOD. For the most part, I am an advocate for the consumerization of IT (using
non-standard apps and tools as a way to increase end user engagement and productivity) and support the bring-your-
own-device model.
However, as a seasoned manager and IT operations leader, I recognize the risks that come with the model if
organizations do not properly plan out their strategies, putting sufficient protections and governance practices in place
to manage the potential risks that could come from these unsupported devices and applications. End users often want
what’s NEW, but there are valid reasons for imposing and enforcing safeguards when giving mobile business users
access to your otherwise secure, scalable, and compliant systems.
Some people equate governance with bureaucracy and hierarchical systems, but those perceptions often come from a
lack of appreciation for the potential risks involved. Governance is about checks and balances -- supporting the tools
and systems your end users want, but in a way that is manageable and which follows defined protocols.
Examples of rogue IT practices
A (http://harmon.ie/blog/new-survey-reveals-mobile-rogue-it-costing-us-organizations-almost-2b)recent uSamp survey
(http://harmon.ie/blog/new-survey-reveals-mobile-rogue-it-costing-us-organizations-almost-2b) found that 41% of US mobile business
users have used unsanctioned services to share or sync files, despite 87% saying they are aware that their company
has a document sharing policy that prohibits this practice. And, 27% of mobile business users who “went rogue”,
reported immediate and direct repercussions, from lost business to expensive lawsuits and financial penalties that cost
$2 billion.
While most IT professionals understand these risks viscerally, some business users need to crash and burn before
they are willing to adjust their risky behaviors, which is not a message your employer wants to hear. Luckily, there is
another way: learning from the mistakes of others. This month, I am one of six mobile security and IT experts judging a
(http://www.rogueitstories.com/)"Rogue IT" contest (http://www.rogueitstories.com/). We’re collecting anonymous stories from the
community ...
Don't come last in a mobile first --WhitepaperAbhishek Sood
By 2020 mobile devices will outsell PC’s by a factor of 10.
Regardless of what mobility strategy your company has in place, or how you intend to execute it, the more mobile users, devices, applications and content your organization adopts, the more challenges you will have to deal with.
Download this white paper to discover how to overcome the most pressing mobility challenges including device security and management, app development, remote support, mobile data and analytics, and more.
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2. Leading Through Digital Disruption 2
Digital disruption can be an intimidating term, and, perhaps
more challenging, it is often a topic CIOs and senior IT
leaders know they should be thinking about, but aren’t
sure where to start. The “wait and see” attitude is a mindset
that needs to be left in the past, or organizations risk being
left behind.
Companies like Uber, Google, Amazon and others have
been focused on navigating the complicated landscape of
digital disruption, and it’s time for all organizations to start
creating strategies to stay competitive and create growth.
With this book, CIOs can learn how to identify, respond
and navigate through the world of digital disruption. This
will require a specific set of talent, and a very different
leadership mindset combined with strategic alliances with
other business units. Disruptors can be any enterprise
from a small startup in the medical field to a tech giant,
and CIOs need to be prepared to assist the most senior
business executives to identify and compete with or join
these organizations.
Introduction
Janelle B. Hill
Gartner Research
Vice President and
Distinguished Analyst
3. Leading Through Digital Disruption 3
Contents
Spotting Digital
Disruption
CHAPTER 1
04
Think Like a Digital
Leader
CHAPTER 2
12
Disruptive Technology:
Blockchain and
Artificial Intelligence
CHAPTER 3
19
Talent for Digital
Disruption
CHAPTER 4
29
5. Leading Through Digital Disruption 5
It’s easy to understand how companies like Uber and Lyft disrupt the
taxi industry, but it’s likely that few people have considered how the
ride-hailing apps affect airports. At the San Francisco airport taxis
used a transponder-based system that enabled the airport to account
and charge for taxi trips departing from the facility. But when Uber
and Lyft arrived, Ian Law, San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
Chief Information Officer, needed to find a different solution to
manage the new ride-hailing companies. The very nature of the ride-
hailing companies meant people used personal cars, and putting a
transponder in each one wasn’t possible, as they are private vehicles.
This presented a business challenge for the airport. The solution?
Disrupt the system.
Law and his IT team designed a system that takes advantage of the Uber
and Lyft GPS apps. The team set up a “geo-fence” that is triggered
each time someone with the app running breaches the perimeter. The
information allows the airport to track transactions at the airport and
charge the fee agreed to in the ride-hailing company’s operating permit.
Spotting Digital Disruption
Welcome to the age of digital disruption
Although some CEOs might recognize that companies like Uber or Airbnb
are disrupting the business world, many still maintain a wait-and-see
attitude. This means responding once the true threat to their own business
has been identified. However, in the case of digital disruption, waiting
until the threat is clear is often too late. There will not be sufficient time
to respond in a way that minimizes the impacts to your business.
“CIOs involved in building or expanding a digital business are dealing with
an increased pace of innovation that is very disruptive to their ability to
scale or grow. The ability to successfully engage with this disruption can
be the difference between thriving and sliding down the performance
curve,” says David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner Fellow.
“True innovators affecting change don’t just innovate — they disrupt.
They shift fundamentally the dynamics of the situations in which they
find themselves. When the average organization is no longer surprised by
disruption, but instead uses it as a tool of normal competition, it changes
organizational dynamics, the nature of strategic planning, investment
priorities and the technologies used to drive the future of business.”
“The ability to successfully
engage with this disruption
can be the difference between
thriving and sliding down the
performance curve.”
David Mitchell Smith, Vice President and
Gartner Fellow
6. Leading Through Digital Disruption 6
Digital disruptions are more difficult to adapt to than earlier technology-
triggered shifts due to their virtual nature. Past technology disruptions
were generally triggered by physical technologies such as PCs or ATMs.
With the exception of robots and robotics, most digital disruptions are
initiated in the virtual world, which makes them difficult to recognize
until after the impact is felt, as the SFO airport example highlights.
This means that when a digital disruption appears in your market, the
investment just to catch up will be large and rapid.
“Digital disruptions typically exist outside of the enterprise’s normal range
of vision,” says Janelle B. Hill, research vice president and distinguished
analyst. “Although CIOs and business executives acknowledge the
potential for a digital disruption, they lack tools, techniques, and criteria
for identifying and assessing potential disruptions.”
CIOs can lead the organization to overcome the challenges of digital
disruption and equip peers to recognize and deal with digital disruption.
What is a disruptor?
Digital disruptors are organizations that have “taken advantage of digital
capabilities in one form or another to create and drive fundamental
shifts — intentionally or otherwise — in their market and perhaps others...
either by design or as a secondary effect,” says David Yockelson,
research vice president.
Traditional companies often see digital disruptors such as Facebook,
Alphabet/Google, Netflix and Amazon and try to emulate them. IT
leaders and company executives ask questions such as, “How can
we be the Uber of our market?”
Spotting Digital Disruption
The good news is that despite the intimidation factor of becoming a
digital disruptor, given the amount of digital and/or infrastructure platforms
and services via the cloud, the entry barrier to explore new digital
technologies for their disruptive potential is quite low. This means that
it’s possible for your organization to explore potential responses to
disruption or initiate a disruptive innovation itself.
Some smaller companies are making digital waves. Wearsafe Labs
utilizes a variety of existing technologies (i.e., smartphones, social
networking and the IoT) to provide a “social safety net” for hikers,
runners or others who could get into trouble while outdoors.
Joining the ranks of digital disruptors doesn’t necessarily mean a total
overhaul of technology.
“Often it’s the combination of new or existing technologies — after all,
we are talking about digital disruption — and a different business model,
focus in a given industry, and/or impact/influence on society that delivers
the disruptive experience,” says Yockelson.
There are four elements of digital disruptions: Business, technology,
industry and society.
“Digital disruptors typically exist
outside of the enterprise’s normal
range of vision.”
Janelle B. Hill, Gartner Research Vice President
and Distinguished Analyst
7. Leading Through Digital Disruption 7
Facebook, for example, was not the first pervasive social platform,
given that Myspace had a similar approach. However, Facebook used its
own established platform in inventive ways, such as allowing likes and
follows, and kept the no-user-fee business concept. It provided the right
balance of privacy versus access, and that has had huge implications on
social media and society. The company used acquisitions and further
innovations to continue to disrupt beyond society, now impacting the
media industry (the business element).
Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted the on-site server industry via its
IaaS/PaaS cloud platform. The company invested heavily in infrastructure
as a business model, and focused on innovation in the tech stack. They
established internal philosophies about innovation and disruption and
created the “nearest thing to a religious movement in IT” as a societal
impact, says Yockelson. The societal impacts for other disruptors
include now-familiar habits such as binge watching (Netflix) and the
phrase “Google it” (Google).
However, in the grand scheme of disruption, these large examples are
relatively simple and not necessarily difficult to identify. Consider what
happens when you break down the backgrounds of potential and actual
disruptors further. This helps distinguish categories that disruptors
generally fall into: Emerging tech providers, established providers,
vertically focused entities and reactive organizations.
Spotting Digital Disruption
FIGURE 1: Select digital native disruptors and their impact on the
elements of disruption
Market,
Development,
Pricing,
Delivery, etc.
Invention,
Design,
Usage, etc.
Processess,
Standards,
Methods,
Customers, etc.
Culture, Habits,
Movements, etc.
Facebook No user fee The “like,” mobility Privacy vs. access Social impacts on
society
Netflix Subscription +
two-way delivery
Streaming,
profiling
Streams vs. stores Binge watching
Alphabet/
Google
Search and
advertising
Page ranking at
scale
Monetizing video “Google it”
Amazon
(Consumer)
Warehousing +
free delivery +
Prime
CX-focused
technologies (for
example, Alexa)
Shopping for
anything (products
and services)
Able to lead
consumers to new
methods
AWS (B2B) Significant and
ongoing capital
investment in
infrastructure
Innovation in
silicon networking
and various levels
in stack
Failing fast, “yes”
culture, continual
innovation
Nearest thing to
a religious
movement in IT
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8. Leading Through Digital Disruption 8
“With the provided examples of disruptors — potential or actual; past,
present or future — it may be easier to understand and isolate methods
and focal points of digital disruptors,” says Yockelson.
Recognize digital disruption
A key aspect of seeing digital disruption is to learn to separate actual
digital disruptions from fads. A fad, such as Pokemon Go or Google
Glass, will incite lots of excitement but have limited impact. A disruption
will completely redefine the market’s needs and potentially cause a
significant change in the industry and beyond. For example, tablet
computers like the iPad caused changes in application development,
impacted revenue of desktop and notebook computer manufacturers,
and even changed how humans interact with technology, with FaceTime
as the first mobile conferencing application. The technology also
created an aftermarket accessory industry.
At some point digital disruptions will completely change markets due
to their ripple effects, while a fad will not. Consider how digital TV initially
impacted analog television, and how Netflix subsequently exploited
digital content to completely disrupt the entertainment industry.
Spotting Digital Disruption
FIGURE 2: Categorizing select potential and actual disruptors by
elements of disruption
Market,
Development,
Pricing,
Delivery, etc.
Invention,
Design,
Usage, etc.
Processess,
Standards,
Methods,
Customers, etc.
Culture, Habits,
Movements, etc.
Emerging
Providers
Orbitera (Google)
GitHub
Ethereum
Twilio
Docker
Sunport Wearsafe Labs
Established
Providers
Softbank
Adobe
Microsoft (cloud)
IBM (Watson)
PTC
Intel
Samsung
Nintendo
PayPal
Vertically
Focused
Entities
Lending Club
Acorns
Dollar Shave Club
Digit
Local Motors
WeWork
Trov
SoFi
Lemonade
Reactive
Orgs
Unilever
Walmart
GE
Under Armour
Bosch
Allstate
Caterpillar
Amazon
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Befriend the CMO or VP of Supply Chain
Monitoring external industries is new territory for a CIO, but other
members of the executive team will be better equipped for such an
effort. Depending on the setup of the business, the CIO might look to
partner with the CMO, CFO, VP of Supply Chain or the Head of RD
to have a better view of potential disruptors. In a business-to-business
setup, disruption can happen in the supply chain or with the end customer,
so it’s best to partner with both the CMO and VP of Supply Chain. For
business-to-consumer companies, disruptions are most likely to happen
in the customer segment, so the focus should be on the CMO.
Spotting Digital Disruption
Set up your sensing apparatus
Enterprises looking to identify disruptors before it’s too late should
set up a “sensing apparatus” to monitor external indicators. These
indicators include shifting customer behavior and consumer
trends, as many disruptors originate in the consumer world. Pay
attention to where VCs are investing and to disruptions in adjacent
markets for indicators. The sensing apparatus will create large
quantities of information, so look to data scientists to mine the
data lake for insights.
“With the provided examples
of disruptors…it may be easier
to understand and isolate
methods and focal points
of digital disruptors.”
David Yockelson, Gartner Research Vice President
B2B CIO
VP of Supply Chain
CMO
CMOB2C CIO
Disruption Partner
Supply chain
OR
End customer
End customer
CMOs can offer insight into customer and market behavior. They will also
be able to identify potential indicators and will probably have staff with
the skills to analyze the data. In return, CIOs can offer CMOs institutional
knowledge about IT systems and why certain systems are set up the
way they are to provide perspective on how a potential disruption
challenges the status quo.
10. Leading Through Digital Disruption 10
Prioritize digital disruption
Now that you know how to spot digital disruption, what’s the next
step? Prioritize.
Digital disruptions should be viewed within three dimensions — the
scale of the disruption, the reach and the richness of the experience.
These three dimensions can create huge market advantages given
that more content is produced faster, is available on demand, and
generally provides a deeper context and extended depth of
customer interaction.
“CIOs, in conjunction with business peers, must assess what these
advantages mean to their business. Will the disruption reach their
market and their customers? With what new value? Any disruption that
clearly impacts two or more of these dimensions should be a high
priority. Combine judgments about these three dimensions of a
disruption with data and insights gathered from the sensing apparatus
to prioritize one disruption versus another. This will also help
distinguish disruptions from fads,” says Hill.
Watch other companies
When looking to spot digital disruptors, don’t just focus on the VC
community, although disruptors may emerge from there. Large
companies can have a huge advantage if they can crack the digital
disruptor code. For example, IBM acquired the Weather Channel
for its global-scale platform and data. The digital business giants
(Google, Facebook, Amazon) should also be monitored.
“Be particularly wary of what data they could gain or own with respect
to your market,” Hill says. “This is also where your understanding of your
enterprise’s economic architecture will help dramatically, by putting
your observations into a business context that your CEO and board
clearly understand.”
Create a culture of innovation
Companies that are successful disruptors, such as AWS, have created a
culture of innovation; that is, innovation is a normal day-to-day activity,
not a special once-a-month meeting. Realistically, the digital business
era has introduced a lot of uncertainty and concern, but an enterprise
that has an established culture of innovation will be able to better respond
to the uncertainty and risk that accompanies this era.
Spotting Digital Disruption
11. Leading Through Digital Disruption 11
Respond to digital disruption
One decision every enterprise will need to make when it comes to
digital disruption is how to respond to it. Many organizations lack
the skills, resources and risk appetite to realistically play the role of
disruptor. However, these enterprises can — and should — decide to
play the role of ”complementing disruptor” by joining the ecosystem
around the disruptor. This means looking for ways to add value to
the disruption.
If, however, the CEO comes to the conclusion that the company should
not complement the disruptor, but should become the disruptor itself,
the company must ensure that it has a system of continuous innovation.
This entails challenging assumptions and breaking out of familiar patterns
or “because that’s how we always do them” mentality.
The one decision enterprises shouldn’t make is to do nothing. This
merely delays the inevitable disruption.
Don’t worry if innovation isn’t a core competency
at your enterprise. It’s easy to jump-start innovation.
Here are two simple steps to get you started.
Challenge assumptions based on tradition, history and known
patterns. Think about how and why these assumptions exist
and compare the current business to the past. Specifically
ask “why” five times. Why do we do X? Because of reason A.
Why do we do A? Because of reason B. And so on.
Wish without boundaries. Set an unrealistically high target
such as “We’d like to grow sales by 300% in three months.”
Since the current business setting makes that impossible,
stating the wish requires everyone to think differently
and outside the box. This enables your team to ignore
best practices and existing policies and think creatively,
allowing them to see the possibilities often hidden behind
the status quo.
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Spotting Digital Disruption
13. Leading Through Digital Disruption 13
Now that you know what a disruptor is and how to identify challengers,
it’s time to take a look inward. As the CIO, your team will look to you to
help lead through digital disruption in partnership with the business.
The first order of business is to reframe your mindset to succeed with
digital disruption.
Consider the following situation.
It’s 2020. A CIO walks into a staff meeting and announces that the
new digital product or service that his/her team introduced violated
customers’ privacy to an extent that now the company is going out
of business.
What happened?
Now, imagine if the CIO had asked in 2017 when launching the digital
offering, “What could go wrong with our approach by 2020?”
Mindsets that are not in tune with the changing market realities can
derail even high-digital-acuity leaders.
Think Like a Digital Leader
“Your mind may be wired with deeply entrenched beliefs, but they are
just in your mind. And you can change your mind,” says Graham Waller,
research vice president and distinguished analyst. “All leaders should
regularly challenge their thinking and invite challenge from others to
evolve their mindset assumptions, beliefs and paradigms to ensure they
remain matched to their particular marketplace reality.”
Challenge your existing mindset
with pre-mortems
The CIO in the 2020 scenario could have helped his executive team
avoid problems by maintaining a healthy paranoia and running pre-
mortems that included business peers as well as his own IT team.
During these sessions, the interdisciplinary team would have looked at
its current mindset about customer privacy expectations in the context
of its planned digital disruption, considered what might negatively affect
customers’ perception of the new value, considered potential negative
ramifications to the company beyond low sales, and what would need
to shift to minimize negative consequences.
Similarly, imagine scenarios where well-funded digital companies enter
the market or specific trends become digital business must-haves —
and the best way to respond. During this process, apply the same
concept specifically to the IT organization to ensure it remains relevant,
vibrant and valued.
“All leaders should regularly
challenge their thinking and
invite challenge from others…”
Graham Waller, Gartner Research Vice President
and Distinguished Analyst
14. Leading Through Digital Disruption 14
To truly challenge core beliefs, inject external and brutally honest
perspectives. Find digitally savvy mentors or “‘challenge partners” and
give them unbridled permission to challenge your thinking and whether
it is attuned to future market realities. Be open to them making you feel
uncomfortable and not “letting you off the hook,” as we can all be
seduced by what we know. What has served us well in the past can
lead to an unconscious bias to repeat past behaviors and find others
who agree with us, known as confirmation bias. A challenge partner
should be someone who is not an obvious choice, so be aware of
biases in selecting this partner.
Reframe your perspective and adopt proven
digital leader traits
By changing the conceptual and/or emotional viewpoint with which you
view a situation and placing it in a new frame of reference that fits the
“facts” of your future market reality, you can create the new context for
the needed change. One CIO changed his perspective on shadow IT
based on the new reality of digital disruption, which blurred traditional
boundaries and market demands for greater innovation and speed. He
reframed shadow IT from something to stamp out to a viewpoint of
seeing a business colleague as a partner with ideas to drive the business
forward with technology, backed by a willingness to invest both money
and talent.
Finally, reserve two hours per week to read about or study how
successful leaders digitally disrupt, with the intent of applying that
thought process to your own situation. Once a month, meet with
venture capitalists or entrepreneurial leaders, and use these
opportunities to understand genuine new customer value, enduring
business models and economic architecture underpinnings. Adopt key
mindset traits as a way of evolving your own thinking to have a higher
quotient of digital acuity — a sharpness or keenness of thought, vision
and understanding in relation to digital technologies as a source of
competitive advantage.
Reserve two hours per week to
read about or study how successful
leaders digitally disrupt and apply
that thought process to your
own situation.
Think Like a Digital Leader
15. Leading Through Digital Disruption 15
Reinforce digital acuity mindset with daily
routines and rituals
Routines strengthen the brain’s underlying neural networks, which in
turn form connections with new experiences and thoughts. Develop,
introduce and eventually ingrain in the culture a series of digital beliefs
and design principles that reinforce key concepts. Repeated use will
enable these concepts to become subconsciously ingrained as a new
mindset. This can be as simple as experiencing a new technology each
week, such as a drone, a new virtual personal assistant (VPA) application
or virtual reality headset, or model key targeted digital behaviors, such
as blogging or communicating via video.
Two types of mindsets are emerging as the business world shifts to
be more influenced by digital business. On one side is the incumbent
marketplace player, who prefers to invest only in a solid business case
and focuses on predictability over speed and innovation. On the other
side is the digital-era market disruptor. This person believes in innovation
to win big while managing risk by failing fast, and prefers to focus on
innovation and speed over predictability.
CEOs, CIOs and other executives understand a shift in business is
necessary to adapt to the changing world, but may fail to realize how
important their own mindset is to the success of the transition.
“While the world is moving forward at breakneck speed, the core beliefs
wired into our brains often are not,” says Waller. The leader’s mindset
provides a frame of reference that affects how they hear, interpret and
act on information, which in turn affects how the company operates.
Successful disruptive digital leaders are able to transform themselves
to transform the company.
Think Like a Digital Leader
16. Leading Through Digital Disruption 16
Think Like a Digital Leader
Five mindset traits for the digital disruptor
Five mindset traits can help you gauge your digital acuity against
those of a successful disruptive digital leader.
1. Thrive despite uncertainty
While an incumbent marketplace player might be frozen or flail in the
face of the uncertainty of the digital era, a disruptive digital leader
understands and embraces the idea that uncertainty is inevitable.
Instead of expending energy trying to change that, these leaders
explore what is technologically possible, how changes will disrupt the
markets and the risk-reward tradeoffs, according to Waller. Embracing
uncertainty does not mean throwing caution to the wind as far as
sound decisions or fiscal accountability. It means establishing a plan
that allows for change and evolution, and does not create a fallacy of
fake predictability.
2. Focus on ideas that leapfrog ahead
Because traditional incremental thinking runs the risk of irrelevance in
the digital world, leaders should focus on ideas that leapfrog ahead.
Digital leaders are visionary when it comes to the technology frontier,
but all decisions are still rooted in the end goal or mission. This
demands a risk-tolerant mindset — future technologies are volatile
and may be delayed or fail completely. But a true digital leader is
driven by the challenge and potential for creating net-new business
value by harnessing breakthrough technology.
3. Select your digital-era lever
In the new era of technology, it’s easy to get distracted by “glitzy”
new technologies pursued for technology’s sake. Digital leaders look
beyond these distractions, seeking to master the digital-era competitive
levers. The goal should be to become a pioneer and sustain a
long-term investment to secure a position as a leader in areas such
as platform-based business model economics or turning data into
customer value via data science and AI techniques. Select a lever,
and focus on making it a core competency of the company.
4. Start, experiment, learn, iterate
Incumbents might prefer to wait until technology-enabled
breakthroughs are proven, while a digital leader’s mindset is that
stalling due to uncertainty means another company will have already
seized the opportunity. Digital leaders understand well-grounded
strategic bets based on expected business outcomes and digital
levers need to be the focus of the company. Digital transformation
leaders will take a start-experiment-learn-iterate approach as a
pathway to a breakthrough solution instead of waiting for clarity
before proceeding. With certain disciplines, such as lean startup,
minimum viable product and data-evidence-based experimentation,
companies can harness experimentation as a path to new value
while mitigating downside risk.
5. Innovate faster than others
In a digital era rich in disruption, companies must be able to innovate
faster than their competitors. To encourage innovation at this speed,
digital leaders establish a culture of true creativity. They visibly champion
this belief at every level from new hires to the boardroom, actively
role-modelling a culture that encourages risk taking and discovery.
Companies that are risk-averse will be too slow to innovate, as
employee thinking and actions remain bogged down in traditional
industry rules and ROI models. On the other side, companies that
encourage speed and occasionally reward failure are much better
equipped to succeed in the digital world.
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Think Like a Digital Leader
Become a venture CIO
With a newly minted innovative mindset, CIOs should put action to word
and create avenues for that innovation to foster. Many CIOs are familiar
with how Netflix changed the movie industry by offering a digital option
for renting media. Other companies are experimenting with blockchain
and wearables to transform their business models. With four of 10 CIOs
leading their enterprises’ digitalization efforts, according to the 2016
Gartner CIO Survey, CIOs need to lead disruptive innovation and look
outside of traditional investments for faster company growth and
deeper business model change.
“CIOs need to transform themselves into venture CIOs to spearhead
disruptive innovation efforts in the enterprise, manage venture capital
technology investments and drive successful techquisitions,” says
Ansgar Schulte, research director.
To become a venture CIO, consider creating an Innovation Center of
Excellence (CoE) to foster innovation, and track what startups are
working on in your industry.
“CIOs need to transform
themselves into venture CIOs to
spearhead disruptive innovation
efforts in the enterprise…”
Ansgar Schulte, Gartner Research Director
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Think Like a Digital Leader
Mark Raskino, Gartner Vice President Gartner Fellow
Courage. For both CEOs and CIOs, digital business will often mean
leading a journey into unknown territory using new and unfamiliar
tools and methods. Introducing new products, competencies,
business models and technologies will challenge and may expose
your personal abilities. It will test or disrupt your business
relationships. It is not for the faint of heart.
Patrick Meehan, Gartner Vice President Distinguished Analyst
Every CEO and CIO I speak with knows that creating the right
culture is the key to being a great digital leader. What’s required
is a culture that celebrates innovation…and implied in innovation is
taking risks. Most companies have little tolerance for failure, yet
taking risks means that sometimes you’ll fail.
I’m not saying that leaders should accept failure with the ERP
system or the email system; what I’m suggesting is that great
leaders in the digital business space create the right and relevant
culture in appropriate places that permit, or even celebrate, failure.
Typically, if you’re innovating in a channel scenario with sensors or
location awareness, you’re not going to get it right the first time…
and that should be OK. Eventually you iterate what’s being tried
until you do get it right. Permitting that takes solid leadership.
Graham Waller, Gartner Vice President Distinguished Analyst
Future leadership success will demand high digital acuity — a
sharpness of thought, vision and understanding in relation to digital
technologies as a source of competitive advantage. Digital acuity
will complement core expectations such as financial acumen,
strategy mastery and leadership excellence in the M.B.A.
curriculum of the future.
Janelle B. Hill, Gartner Vice President Distinguished Analyst
Digital business leaders must be willing to challenge the status
quo about everything — about themselves and their own behavior
patterns; about the value of their own role and organization/team;
about the health (or lack thereof) of the current business; about
their industry rules or regulations; about the position of their
company relative to others in their market, etc. Digital business
changes everything, and only those willing to question everything
will see the possibilities.
Ansgar Schulte, Gartner Research Director
A great digital leader is, above all, able to clearly envision the unique
customer value proposition of born-digital products or services,
identify the enabling technologies and business capabilities
required to develop them, and rally the very best resources, both
internal and external to the organization, around a passionate and
fearless journey for making this vision come to life.
Although it may be possible to delegate some of these responsibilities
to members of a trusted and carefully selected leadership team, the
one task that remains broadly with the digital leader is to shape and
nurture a digital business vision and to communicate it, compellingly
and relentlessly, to all enterprise stakeholders.
Ed Gabrys, Gartner Research Director
The one quality that is consistent among successful digital business
leaders is a willingness to be bold. Digital leaders must be willing to
take risks with new approaches, new capabilities, new technologies,
and most importantly, the courage to drive and lead a more creative
and more conspicuous digital team than they ever have before.
What’s the No. 1 quality necessary
for leading digital business?
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Disruptive
Technology:
Blockchain
and Artificial
Intelligence
CHAPTER 3
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“Gartner clients in industries beyond financial services are asking
whether it is too late to join in the contagion of ‘blockchain fever’ that
has struck the financial services sector,” says Ray Valdes, vice
president and Gartner Fellow. “If anything, it is still too early.” The
reason it’s early is because the technology is not yet able to meet the
requirements of these futuristic visions of global-scale digital business
and what some call the “Internet of Money.”
Yet, it’s important for CIOs to understand the possibilities and
limitations of blockchain, associated distributed ledger technologies,
and future business and technology scenarios for their industries, which
over time will evolve to a global-scale programmable economy.
The U.K. government is currently considering options for its Land Registry
department, the organization that guarantees titles to registered estates
and interests. Although digital currency usually steals the blockchain
spotlight, land registry provides another interesting application, with
pilot projects happening around the world. A blockchain-enabled solution
would enable people to discover who owns a particular property, and
ensure that the transfer of ownership does not occur without the
authorization of interested parties, including a bank holding the property
as security on a loan.
Disruption in the digital world doesn’t just apply to companies.
Technology itself must be re-evaluated and experimented with as
it matures. Companies that ignore potential industry-changing
technologies run the risk of falling behind.
If you’re a CIO, blockchain probably crossed your radar screen a few
years ago with news of bitcoin digital currency, and how its distributed
ledger technology enabled “anonymous” transactions by computer
nerds and also by nefarious entities around the globe. If you aren’t in
financial services, you might have given the innovative distributed ledger
platform little attention. Today, blockchain hype has gained visibility in
mass media and in the technology press as consultants and vendors
promise to help your company leverage this technology for digital
transformation.
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“[Is it] too late to join in the
contagion of ‘blockchain fever’…
If anything, it is still too early.”
Ray Valdes, Vice President and Gartner Fellow
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Blockchain 101
An explanation of blockchain begins with the bitcoin cryptocurrency,
since it is the first implementation of distributed ledger technology,
launched in 2009, and now, about 500 million transactions later,
managing assets worth more than $70 billion. The ledger records
transactions in bitcoin currency in a “chain-of-blocks” data structure,
where a block is a group of transaction records added every few
minutes in a never-ending series. The ledger records the sequence
of every transaction and every “coin” (virtual currency stored as
information bits). The smartest criminals on the planet have had eight
years to break the security of the information stored in the distributed
ledger, and have failed. The ledger is an immutable, tamperproof,
uncensorable record of all transactions since the first “genesis”
transaction. The ledger is called “distributed” because the data gains
immutability by being massively replicated across thousands of machines
in a network where the participants don’t know or trust each other.
Security is handled by cryptographic protocols and techniques that
ensure the permanence, resilience and immutability of the data. To
achieve this goal of a “trusted record within an untrusted environment,”
the ledger in bitcoin relies on significant computational power and
interested parties, or “miners,” to validate and confirm transactions,
using a structured process for adding transaction records to the
blockchain in return for monetary reward.
In its current form, bitcoin blockchain suffers from significant limitations
in scalability, functional scope, performance, efficiency and operational
manageability — hampered by a lack of organizational governance and
agility. There are close to one hundred other blockchain platforms that
seek to address the technical limitations found in the bitcoin stack and
expand the scope to allow solutions in nonmonetary areas such as
healthcare data, government records, legal contracts, supply chain
manifests, manufacturing bill of materials, Internet of Things data, and
so on. Most of these platforms are still under construction, and even if
released, are very new and largely unproven. The strong second to the
bitcoin stack is the Ethereum platform, which is more powerful and
more scalable but still suffers from significant limitations.
The magic of blockchain lies in the innovative use of multiple disciplines
(cryptography, distributed computing, behavioral economics) to enable
a decentralized business ecosystem of many participants who don’t
know or trust each other to interact and share valuable data in a way
that does not require a central authority or trusted intermediary. In this
sense, the bitcoin system is designed to destroy the banking system
as we know it, by making intermediaries such as banks irrelevant. The
disruptive potential of blockchain technology has captured interest
among many outside the financial sector as well.
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Beyond financial services
This is the essence of distributed ledgers: They have the potential to
enable any form of value to be exchanged between untrusted parties in
an encrypted format, without the need for intermediation by a centralized
authority. The ability to support diverse forms of value exchange (not
just payments) around any form of asset suggests a future in which
“things” in an Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm can be dynamically
monetized. This will foster growth of the programmable economy.
Given the distributed ledger’s distributed, peer-to-peer nature, it’s
understandable why leading financial services companies see the
concept as both a threat (in terms of disintermediation) and an
opportunity to reassert ecosystem control or radically change the
cost structure of their operations — if they use distributed ledgers
as participatory systems of record. Look beyond these initial use
cases to the radical possibilities for value exchange enabled by the
programmable economy.
The insurance industry can also benefit from this concept by, for
example, verifying assets and preventing fraud. Everledger is a
blockchain-based ledger that combats insurance fraud by tracking
thousands of diamonds through their entire supply chain cycle,
starting with the recording of 40 data points unique to each stone
in the tamperproof distributed ledger. Any subsequent trade of the
diamond can be traced to the previous transaction.
What’s important for CIOs, notes David Furlonger, vice president
Gartner Fellow, is to look beyond these initial use cases to the radical
possibilities for value exchange enabled by the programmable economy.
Land titles can be verified, giving landowners in developing countries an
indisputable record against corruption and theft. Immutable education
records will foster global mobility of talent. Or, consider how autonomous
cars will negotiate and pay for parking spaces, rideshares and even
lane changing.
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“Anything developed today,
especially capabilities built on the
original blockchain, will have a
useful life of at most 24 months.”
David Furlonger, Vice President and Gartner Fellow
CIOs should explore the potential of this disruptive technology but also
recognize the limitations of the current generation of blockchain platforms.
They should gain an understanding of the current state of the art by
doing basic proofs of concept, followed by implementing tactical,
narrow-scope deployments that solve specific business problems,
according to Valdes. “The goal is as much in lessons learned as in
business value delivered, especially as the enabling technologies are
still immature/unproven,” he says.
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Next, while acting tactically, organizations should think strategically
and conceptually about the longer-term business models enabled by
next-generation distributed ledger platforms that will facilitate their use.
“Anything developed today, especially capabilities built on the original
blockchain, will have a useful life of at most 24 months,” says Furlonger.
“At which time they will be replaced by more evolved distributed
ledger alternatives.”
The disruptive potential of blockchain
“Blockchain (distributed ledger) technology is viewed by many
pundits as enabling the next big wave of technology-driven business
transformation on a global scale,” says Valdes. “Although it appears
with the timing of the bitcoin launch and the surrounding rhetoric that
blockchain was intentionally designed to disrupt the banking and
financial industry. It seems unlikely to succeed in that goal due to a
combination of technology limitations and established effective
solutions.” In other industries where blockchain could be disruptive,
risk-averse companies are keeping a tight hold on the risk factors,
resulting in incremental improvements instead of game-changing
disruption. These industries include healthcare, supply chain
and government.
However, even traditional disruptors such as Uber and Airbnb could
be disrupted by the eventual successful implementation of blockchain.
These companies, part of the “peer-to-peer” economy, still rely largely
on a middle man to conduct business. Companies looking to utilize
blockchain technology will be able to remove the central authority figure
altogether. For example, Slock.it launched with the idea that renters
could deal directly with individual lodging owners instead of dealing
with real estate agents. Using blockchain and smart contracts, the idea
was that the company would disrupt the current peer-to-peer economy
by creating a true peer-to-peer economy. However, due to a large hack,
the company lost funding, and only recently received more seed money,
with a beta release targeted for 2018.
Enterprises need to be cognizant of the hype surrounding blockchain,
as often the projects are a solution in search of a problem; however,
there are potential situations where blockchain could be beneficial,
particularly in supply chain (for example, overseas shipping on large
ships that call in multiple ports, all requiring their own paperwork, or
counterfeit medicine in the pharmaceutical industry). Achieving
transformative change in this sector will take time due to business
challenges in gaining many participants to adopt the system — assuming
the technology platform will be able to handle the scale and complexity
of these business interactions.
As a CIO, the challenge will be multipronged. Part of your job will be
investigating and experimenting with the technology. The other part will
be keeping the business in the loop and ensuring that you don’t oversell
the technology, but don’t dismiss it, either. An innovation CoE or lab is a
great way to foster collaborative exploration between business and IT.
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Clarify the risks of underestimating blockchain
to the board
Explaining blockchain to the board is challenging. It’s a complicated
technology that has been overhyped. CIOs need to explain that
companies that do nothing about blockchain run the risk of being left
behind, but there are also risks to undertaking a blockchain project.
Focus on three areas related to risk: The specifics of the business
context (such as customer adoption paradigms), risk management
(for example, information management) and legal issues (e.g., smart
contracts). Industry boundaries will become more fluid as business
ecosystems develop and artificial intelligence increasingly influences
decision making. As the programmable economy takes shape, it’s
difficult to see what business enterprises will look like in five years,
as blockchain business models disrupt even today’s more advanced
platform businesses such as Uber.
Governance, auditability, and control of the networks and blockchain
components supporting them is challenging for risk management.
Assuming that permissioned operating models will solve a lot of the risk
is not necessarily a given due to centralization and reliance on single-
supplier stacks. Legally, blockchain enables jurisdictions to be crossed
and intermingled, complicating operating frameworks and enforcement.
Much of the legal basis for identity, trust, smart contracts and other
components are undefined in a blockchain context. Established laws
still need to be revised and amended to accommodate blockchain
use cases, and financial reporting is still unclear. Many challenges
come along with blockchain, but boards must look ahead to how the
technology could affect the enterprise and identify their absolute
boundaries that cannot be violated for their own potential usage.
CIOs can start small, by developing proofs of concept and engaging
with the various consortia. Boards should also conduct scenario-
planning exercises to assess the evolution of blockchain business
and the impact on their market and enterprise.
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Artificial intelligence
At some online publications, financial summaries and sports recaps
are written by artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, not humans. In some
organizations, AI decides which sales opportunities are worthy of a
salesperson’s time.
Gartner client inquiry on topics closely related to AI increased 200%
from 2015 to 2016 and are on track to increase 100% through 2017. As
organizations recognize the potential for AI to disrupt business, interest
is growing rapidly.
“AI is changing the way in which organizations innovate and communicate
their processes, products and services,” says Whit Andrews, research vice
president and distinguished analyst. “AI continues to drive change in how
businesses and governments interact with customers and constituents.”
The 2017 Gartner predictions for AI explore how it will evolve in the
enterprise and change industries.
By 2020, 20% of companies will dedicate workers to monitor and
guide neural networks.
Neural networks require monitoring and maintenance. The idea that AI
technologies can be delivered as finished products without further
human investment is a recipe for failure. While older rule-based systems
could be set up, configured and then ignored for a few years, neural
networks need to be retrained whenever new data is available, which is
essentially constant. In fact, neural networks only maintain value to the
enterprise in an endless retraining and reinforcement loop. CIOs will
need to make the business case to ensure the project is provided with
necessary resources.
This will require new skills and a new way of thinking about problems.
Those with backgrounds in design, data science and logic might be
better prepared than programmers who tend to think in more structured
approaches. Additionally, neural network responsibilities will be spread
across departments and within many applications. CIOs must ensure
that IT owns the strategy and the governance of selected platforms.
By 2019, startups will overtake Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft
in driving the AI economy with disruptive business solutions.
Many AI startups are owned by former employees of large vendors
who leave and form a company focused on AI in a specific industry, or
academics who have discovered their discipline is suddenly lucrative
and exciting. This means there are many packaged AI solutions that
should be considered before an organization considers building a
custom AI solution in-house. The packaged options require fewer
resources and can be deployed faster.
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“AI continues to drive change
in how business and governments
interact with customers and
constituents.”
Whit Andrews, Gartner Research Vice President
and Distinguished Analyst
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Any industry with very large amounts of data — so much that humans
can’t possibly analyze or understand it on their own — can utilize AI.
Some industries, such as healthcare, are ripe for disruption. As the
amount of available data increases, there will be few jobs requiring
decisions in real time where humans will be able to match smart machines.
However, there are limits to the powers of AI, and CIOs must ensure
they combine human thinking and machine analysis. For example, if
adequate data isn’t available, or if the data is of poor quality in content
or structure, smart machines won’t be able to make a reliable decision.
Conversational AI platforms for digital success
Conversational AI platforms (CAPs) are one of the most talked-about
technologies within the AI world. The trend for consumers started with
Apple’s Siri, but now companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft
and IBM are visible players, with other companies focusing on business
customers or bots/VPAs.
“The ability to use one’s voice and more complex voice dialogue — that
is, conversation versus command/response — to interact with virtually
anything is a disruptive capability, and organizations must begin to
incorporate these capabilities to capitalize on this fundamental shift
or risk being disrupted (from their customers) by those that do,”
says Yockelson.
And it’s a good time for companies to start experimenting and
implementing these systems. “CAP technology appears to be at a point
at which consumer knowledge and demand are meeting with technical
strength and (enough) maturity for implementation and real user
benefits,” he says.
It would be easy to dismiss a need to focus on CAPs as some of the
technology for speech-to-text has been around for a while, but this
technology will soon become an expectation of user experience. Now
is the time to become familiar with the technology and how customers
will expect to interact with it in the future.
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Emotion AI
“In the future, more and more smart devices will be able to capture
human emotions and moods in relation to certain data and facts, and to
analyze situations accordingly,” says Annette Zimmermann, research
vice president.
Emotion-sensing systems will appear in devices as a result of the rise
of intelligent agents, such as virtual assistants. Current examples of
intelligent agents include Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana and Google
Assistant. They use the technological approaches of natural-language
processing and natural-language understanding, but they don’t
currently perceive human emotions. Artificial emotional intelligence
(“emotion AI”) will change that. The next steps for these systems are
to understand and respond to users’ emotional states, and to appear
more human-like, in order to enable more comfortable and natural
interaction with users.
An intelligent agent can be anything that can perceive its environment
through sensors and act on that perception through actuators. Personal
assistance robots (PARs), such as Qihan Technology’s Sanbot and
SoftBank Robotics’ Pepper, are being “humanized” by training them to
distinguish between, and react to, humans’ varying emotional states.
The aim is for PARs to respond with body language and verbal
responses appropriate to the emotions of the humans with whom they
interact. If, for example, Pepper detects that someone is disappointed
with an interaction, the intention is that it will respond apologetically.
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“In the future more…smart
devices will be able to capture
human emotions and moods
in relation to certain data
and facts.”
Annette Zimmermann, Gartner Research Vice
President
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Emotion AI advances
Future smart devices will be better at analyzing and responding to users’
emotions, thanks to AI systems that use deep-learning technology
to measure the facial and verbal expression of emotion. These systems
will play an increasingly important role in how humans interact
with machines.
The first steps are already being taken. The video game “Nevermind,”
for example, uses “emotion-based biofeedback” technology from
Affectiva to detect the player’s mood and adjust its levels and difficulty
accordingly. For example, when a player named Oliver plays Nevermind
on his latest game console, the further he gets into the game, the darker
the mood and the more difficult the logic puzzles become. The thriller
game is sensing Oliver’s anxiety as well as when he relaxes, and adjusts
the levels based on his mood.
In another field, in-car systems are emerging that adapt the
responsiveness of braking systems to the driver’s perceived level of
anxiety. Imagine a parent named Jeanne, who is already having a
stressful morning taking the kids to school after missing the bus, who is
on her way to the doctor for her sick newborn, Clara. The car detects
Jeanne’s anxious mood, and as she approaches a busy crossroad,
makes the brakes more responsive to avoid a rough stop.
In these cases, both video game and car are equipped with visual
sensors and AI-based emotion-tracking software to enable real-time
emotion tracking.
CIOs should evaluate business processes to identify where AI could be
beneficial for each enterprise. Look specifically at underserved areas
of the company that have very large amounts of data but lack access
to analytics. These areas could benefit from the ability to augment and
improve human decision making.
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In addition to emulating the innovation techniques of Amazon, CIOs
need to create strategic partnerships with the business, including the
enterprise architect and chief strategy officer. Disruption will happen
all around the company, and the more CIOs build and prepare a diverse
team, the better off they’ll be.
Amazon is known for its innovation and disruption, but companies of all
sizes can look to the e-commerce company for strategies on structuring
the organization for long-term disruption.
“CIOs formulating strategies for leveraging disruption can learn from
practices of established disruptors such as Amazon,” says Smith.
“CIOs should think of Amazon as an ‘enterprise partner,’ especially with
regard to their transformation and innovation strategies.”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos views the company from a Day 1/Day 2
perspective. The idea is that as a company matures, it may become
easier to rely on process over results (aka outcomes). A focus on
process over outcome is a “Day 2” characteristic. Instead, Bezos wants
the company to maintain Day 1 mode, focusing on outcome over process.
Amazon’s teams are also ideally set up into “two-pizza teams,” meaning
a small team that can be fed with two pizzas. The company creates a
group of product managers, engineers and others so that the team that
builds the product is also able to own that part of the business.
Talent for Digital Disruption
Day 2
mode
Day 1
mode
Focus =
Focus =
Process
Outcome
Outcome
Process
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Talent for Digital Disruption
Step-by-Step
Guide to Disruptive
Thinking
12 – 30 people in
groups of 5 or 690 minutes
Large sheets of paper,
Post-its, markersWhat you’ll need:
Select a value component
Something that allows the organization to
make money or fulfill a mission (i.e., markets,
products, employees, financials.)
List the knowns
List five things you know for certain about
the value component.
Turn the knowns around
Come up with opposite statements
for each known.
Shuffle the groups!
Leave one “host” from each group to explain
the choices and decisions of the previous group.
Shuffle the groups!
Everyone goes to a new table (minus the host).
Examine the reality
If the opposite statements were true,
what would you do? Have three ideas
for each group.
Do a sanity check
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“Customers”
Insurance Company X
“Our customers
prefer to deal with
us in person.”
Insurance Company X
“Is anyone else doing
this and are there
industry examples?”
Insurance Company X
“We should offer
more online services.”
Insurance Company X
“Our customers prefer
to be anonymous and
be dealt with online.”
Insurance Company X
“How can this be
accomplished, and what
is the feasibility from a
technical standpoint?”
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Present to the room
People can comment, but only to remove
established barriers, not to create them.
Collect the opportunities
Write the ideas on Post-its and attach all
of them to a whiteboard to view and collect.
Take a photo to revisit as time allows.
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Companies looking to ensure that all parts of the business are prepared
for disruption must create a culture of experimentation and fast fail.
CIOs should also look to the market to identify areas of potential
disruption and ensure that IT personnel collaborate with appropriate
business units to understand the business outcomes that could be
impacted. One further area: Ensure that enterprise architects are also
focused on identifying digital disruption.
The role of the enterprise architect in digital
disruption
Assembling the right talent for digital disruption can be a challenge, but
enterprise architects can offer a good place to start.
“The ability to respond to disruptions requires an understanding of
overall enterprise strategy and business model, combined with a focus
on emerging technologies,” says Chet Geschickter, research director.
IT must work with other business units
For most Gartner end-user clients, the CIO or IT staff will not be
initiating the disruptive innovation. The CIO and IT team should create
a strategy to work with business-unit leaders as they consider being
disruptive and deal with disruption coming from competitors that
affects their business.
For example, marketing and sales might see disruption in their
customer base, and product managers might recognize disruption in
industry trends. These same business leaders might have very different
appetites for disruptive innovation. Marketing might want to be aggressive
and do something disruptive to attract many more customers, whereas
a product owner may not be willing to cannibalize his/her product with
a disruptive new capability or offering. IT has a role to play in not only
recognizing digital disruptions coming from outside, but also in being
knowledgeable about applying disruptive technology to business.
“But there are no true boundaries; the main point is that all business
units should be aware of the relationship of all the elements of disruption
to their disciplines,” says Yockelson.
Talent for Digital Disruption
“The ability to respond to
disruptions requires an
understanding of overall
enterprise strategy…with
a focus on emerging
technologies.”
Chet Geschickter, Gartner Research Director
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4. Focus on collaborative governance, less on assurance
Governance guides decisions and how those decisions will be
implemented. Assurance ensures agreed-upon standards. Top
performers and underperformers generally differ in how much
bureaucratic oversight exists. For example, underperformers might
have a process with multiple approvals that allows compliance
to weigh in on actual technology decisions. This is a suboptimal
situation. Recommendation: Create a governance strategy focused
on providing guidance to empower IT and business leaders to
make investment decisions.
5. Look for threats as much as opportunities
Generally, EAs are optimistic about digital disruption, seeing it as an
opportunity, particularly when discussing areas of highest-impact
technology. But there also is the threat that emerging companies may
utilize the same technology in a new way that puts your business in
danger. Recommendations: Identify the opportunities and the
threats associated with digital disruptions and look into technologies
that could undermine relationships, business models or value chains.
Develop plans to respond by assimilating these technologies to
strengthen your business model, or to develop alternative models that
deliver more value.
Based on in-depth interviews with 35 digital innovation leaders,
Gartner has developed five best practices for how enterprise
architects (EAs) can respond to and lead for digital disruption.
1. Proactively scan and respond to digital disruptions
Technology innovation is a top priority for EAs, who generally have
responsibility for making technology recommendations to the business.
This includes capitalizing on opportunities to innovate or to initiate a
digital disruption. This means they are in a good position to scan for
digital disruption, and lead the response. Recommendation: Find
ways to collaborate with business leaders on digital disruption and
focus EA efforts on creating future-state deliverables.
2. Establish a diverse trend-spotting capability
When it comes to high-impact technology, top-performing companies
involve an EA in the technology identification process and have a
dedicated RD, innovation or market research competency to help
with scanning the technology landscape for innovations. Don’t
limit the scanning to just IT. Establish a cross-functional team, as
different departments and people will have different requests and
perspectives. Recommendation: Use crowdsourcing, workshops and
gamification to attract diverse ideas and contributors.
3. Scope innovation efforts based on strategic priorities
Top-performing companies establish business goals and then look
for technology to enable strategies to deliver on these goals. Use
strategic plans to focus innovation efforts. Ideas can come from
annual reports, market research or customer surveys. Recommendation:
Ask your EA to use future-state business models and business
outcome statements to focus trend-spotting.
Talent for Digital Disruption
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Aligning with the CSO
The CIO should look to partner with the chief strategy officer (CSO) to
leverage technology for potential market disruption. The CSO is also a
good partner for the CIO when it comes to looking at how companies,
such as Amazon and Facebook, have successfully implemented digital
disruption strategies.
“With digital business comes a fundamental change, and a stark
contrast in the way the business-IT (and EA leader-business leader)
(and CIO-business leader) relationship operates. Before the digital era,
the business-IT relationship was predicated on a “business-led, IT-
enabled” approach. In the digital era, the business-IT relationship is
based on a “business- and IT-led technology-enabled” approach.
It’s no longer about aligning business and IT in the digital era; it’s about
surviving extreme competition and prospering by integrating business
and IT — in other words, a single, all-encompassing business strategy
that addresses business and IT strategy as one,” says Saul Brand,
research director.
The enterprise architect must play a role in helping the CSO develop
a plan for disruption. And they need it. Only 20% of CSOs believe they
are highly prepared for sudden industry disruption, even though 93%
believe technology will rapidly change the company’s industry.
“Business and IT strategy are merging. They are no longer aligned, but
rather integrated. Moreover, enterprise architecture is tightly linked with
business strategy — typically your business model, the services you
offer and how your enterprise uses IT as a strategic asset — and all are
delivered through IT,” says Brand. “So, you have to understand technology
and today’s business and enterprise architecture to shape business
strategy. Similarly, the focus of business-outcome-driven EA is shifting
from strategy execution to strategy formulation. Innovation is now one
of the most important capabilities and responsibilities for EA leaders.”
The EA will be able to help the CSO scan for disruption and look for
emerging technologies. In turn, the CSO will be able to leverage this into
business potential. The CSO will also have better insight to allow her to
organize ecosystems. EA and IT leaders will become important partners
to the CSO as she looks to understand how technology can play a role
in company strategy for the future.
Conclusion
CIOs have quite a role to play in the world of digital disruption. First,
they are tasked with understanding the business’ digital ambition
behind the digital business strategy. They also should challenge their
own mindset and business approach to adapt to a changing world.
Finally, the CIO will need to arrange a team that is able to build
innovative ideas and connect with perhaps nontraditional partners in
the business and beyond to ensure that no opportunity goes unseen.
“A stream of innovation in technology and digital business models
continues to disrupt markets and challenge established incumbents,”
says Smith. “ As digital business continues to grow, CIOs will need
to increase their ability to recognize, prioritize and respond to
digital disruption.”
Talent for Digital Disruption
“It’s about surviving extreme
competition and prospering by
integrating business and IT…”
Saul Brand, Gartner Research Director
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Chapter 1 / Spotting Digital Disruption
SMARTER WITH GARTNER ARTICLES
Recognize and Respond to Digital Disruption
Smarter With Gartner, July 2017, Janelle B. Hill
CLIENT RESEARCH
How to Recognize, Prioritize and Respond to Digital Disruption
Janelle B. Hill, Daryl C. Plummer, May 2017
Enterprise Guide for Spotting Digital Disruptions and Disruptors
David Yockelson, April 2017
Digital Disruption and the New Disruptors: Recognize, Prioritize and Respond —
A Gartner Trend Insight Report
David Mitchell Smith, Daryl C. Plummer, May 2017
Enterprise Guide for Spotting Digital Disruptions and Disruptors
David Yockelson, April 2017
Chapter 2 / Think Like a Digital Leader
SMARTER WITH GARTNER ARTICLES
Reframe Your Core Mindset Beliefs to Meet Digital-Era Demands
Graham Waller, December 2016
5 Mindset Traits of Disruptive Digital Leaders
Graham Waller, December 2016
Are You A Venture CIO?
Ansgar Schulte, January 2017
Analysts Answer: The No. 1 Quality Necessary to Lead Digital Business
Mark Raskino, Patrick Meehan, Graham Waller, Janelle B. Hill, Ansgar Schulte,
Ed Gabrys, October 2016
Chapter 3 / Disruptive Technology: Blockchain and
Artificial Intelligence
SMARTER WITH GARTNER ARTICLES
The CIO’s Guide to Blockchain
Ray Valdes, June 2016
What to Tell The Board About Blockchain
David Furlonger, May 2017
The Disruptive Power of Artificial Intelligence
Whit Andrews, January 2017
Emotion AI Will Personalize Interactions
Annette Zimmermann, June 2017
CLIENT RESEARCH
The Disruptive Potential of Blockchain Technology
Ray Valdes, David Furlonger, Rajesh Kandaswamy, David Mitchell Smith, May 2017
Enterprises Must Prepare ‘Now’ for the Disruptive Power of Conversational AI Platforms
David Yockelson, Tom Austin, March 2017
Chapter 4 / Talent for Digital Disruption
SMARTER WITH GARTNER ARTICLES
Host a Disruptive Thinking Workshop
Bard Papegaaij, August 2016
CLIENT RESEARCH
Willful Disruption: Amazon Disrupts Through Scale, Richness and Reach”
David Mitchell Smith, Daryl C. Plummer, May 2017
Five Best Practices Enterprise Architects Can Use to Respond to Digital Disruptions
Chet Geschickter, Betsy Burton, Mike J. Walker, April 2017
Four Ways Enterprise Architects Can Help Chief Strategy Officers Conquer
Digital Disruptions
Saul Brand, Matthew Goldman, April 2017
Additional Research