This document discusses managing digital disruption in a constantly evolving environment. It addresses three main points: 1) The impact that new technology and trends have on organizations, including how much information is now created daily. 2) Leveraging technology to build organizational agility. 3) How to keep up with constant digital evolution, including through approaches like design thinking, lean startup, and creating an innovation culture. The role of women in innovation and new business opportunities is also raised.

1. MANAGING DIGITAL
DISRUPTION IN A
CONSTANTLY
EVOLVING
ENVIRONMENT!
Michelle Williams
CEO & Founder, IDEACTION
The 3rd Women in ICT Leadership Summit 2016

2. Managing digital disruption in a
constantly evolving environment
# The impact that new technology and trends
have on the organisation
# Leveraging technology to build agility
# How to keep up with constant digital
evolution

7. Managing digital disruption in a
constantly evolving environment
# The impact that new technology and trends
have on the organisation

9. “Every day we now create as much
information as we did from the dawn of
civilisation up until 2003.”
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google

10. Economy
& Financial
Systems
PoliticsEnvironment

12. We cannot solve our
problems with the same
thinking we used when we
created them.”
Albert Einstein

13. THE SOCIAL ERA

17. INDIVIDUAL
EMPOWERMENT

18. ‘Individual empowerment will
accelerate substantially ....and is a
cause and effect
of most other trends.
Potential for greater individual initiative
as key to solving mounting global
challenges’
// Office of the Director of National Intelligence

20. PURPOSE

33. The largest inaugural StartupWeek
anywhere in the world!

34. Conferences Keynotes Hackathons Workshops
DebatesRoundtablesPitch NightsPanels
Exhibitions Tours Networking Parties

35. Our Community Partners

37. Managing digital disruption in a
constantly evolving environment
# Leveraging technology
to build agility

38. DESIGN
THINKING

41. LEAN
STARTUP

43. “Using the Lean Startup
approach, companies can
create order not chaos by
providing tools to test a
vision continuously”

44. Systemic Innovation and
Theory U

45. OLD NEW

49. Managing digital disruption in a
constantly evolving environment
# How to keep up with constant digital
evolution

52. LEADERS DON’T
CREATE
FOLLOWERS,
THEY CREATE
MORE LEADERS.

54. Diversity
Women
Kids
Senior Citizens
Ethnic Diversity
Lesbian / Gay

57. Social Era
Innovation Culture model:
An integrated systems-based approach to innovation
by Con Georgiou

60. Question to the
audience -
What role will women
play in innovation and
new business
opportunities?

61. Thank you!
Michelle Williams
Innovation Consultant
michelle@ideaction.co