The document discusses how digital technology is transforming the world through unprecedented changes. It notes that knowledge is doubling every 12 months and many jobs will be automated. This will require workers to have new skills like digital literacy, analytical skills, and creativity. The document also discusses how businesses need to adapt through more agile "bimodal" approaches in order to compete against digital disruptions. It provides tips on using productivity tools like Evernote, OneNote, and Gmail to stay organized and manage the large amounts of information people now deal with.
2. ‘We haven’t just flipped
from analogue to digital –
we’ve shifted from a
human-driven world to one
driven by information.’
3. Setting the scene
• The world is being transformed by a series of
profound technological changes – the second
machine age
• Digital technology is changing all of our lives, the
way we work, our society and our politics
• Over the the next 20 years, 35% of jobs will become
automated
4. And the pace of change is unprecedented
Knowledge Doubling Curve
• 1900s, Knowledge doubled every century
• 1940s, knowledge doubled every 25 years
• Currently, knowledge doubling every 13
months
• By 2020, every 12 hours?
Source: Buckminster Fuller and IBM, Harvard University Jeff Lichtman
http://www.futuristgerd.com/2014/07/16/knowledge-doubling-every-12-months-soon-to-
be-every-12-hours-via-industry-tap/
5. What’s the impact?
At one end… 3D printing of organs for
surgeons, Artificial Intelligence and robotic
movement with the mind
6. But at the other end…Digital
impacts on our everyday
activities
• Public transport, pay for
coffee
• Agriculture, farming
• Household goods, shopping
• Keeping fit, banking
• And how we work…..
7. What is digital doing to the world of work?
• Driving open ecosystems of work, enabling flexible
engagement of outside resources, greater
portability of skills and the formation of digital talent
hubs.
• Creating fluidity in the delivery of education and
training. Alternative models are emerging from
traditional education
• Disrupting traditional ways of organising work,
leading to the collapse of siloes and hierarchies as
well as new leadership and management styles.
• Demanding (and enabling) a different workforce –
favouring different work skills and mind-sets.
Accenture: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/surviving-future-job-market-how-lose-your-computer-lee-naik?trk=hp-feed-article-title-
publish
9. Millennial workforce
• As generations
collide, workforces
become more
diverse
• Digital natives
• Many of the roles
and job titles will be
ones we’ve not
Michael Rendell
Head of Human Capital Consulting, PwC
10. What skills will be needed?
• Digital literacy skills will be required for all, no opt
out?
• Ability to analyse and create insights from data
without sinking
• Collaborate & influence, market ideas and tell
stories, lead at all levels, be creative
• Build just-in-time skills
• Creative people, think-out-of-the-box types
• Cultivate the opposite of a precious mind-set, if
you’re competing against an informally contracted,
14. The centre of the Digital
Vortex symbolizes a
“new normal”
characterised by rapid
and constant change as
industries become
increasingly digital
The Global Centre for Digital Business Transformation 2015 - ranking of industries by potential for digital disruption is based on quantitative
analysis of market data and responses from 941 business leaders across 13 countries.
18. Gartner’s Digital Dragon
• We need business
leaders to
understand that to
compete in the 21st
Century they need
to tame the digital
dragon.
• They need to
respond to ongoing
needs for efficiency
19. Bimodal business
Reliability
Planned, high ceremony
Long term suppliers
Conventional projects
IT centric – removed from customers
Long cycles of procurement
Agility
Agile, low ceremony
Small new vendors
New and uncertain projects
Business centric, close to customer
Short cycles of procurement
26. Capture on digital
• Browsing the internet – read
an article – save to Evernote
or Google Keep
• Receive an email with a link
to a publication? Save to
Evernote
• On phone and browsing
internet
• Take a photo – save to
https://evernote.com/
28. Capture your things to do….
• Put ALL new items into
‘the in list’
• Harvest every action - personal,
shopping, business, ideas, questions to
ask colleagues
29. Clarify the actions
• Review your in list
• Does the action take less
than 2 minutes? Do it
• Can you delegate it?
Delegate
• Or Defer the action. Create
the very next action…..
And move to a new list
(with date and time)
DO
DELEGATE
DEFER
30. List creation
• Add that very next action to a list….
• @next actions (or things to do)
• @Project list (lots of things in projects)
• @Waiting for..
• @Someday maybe list
• @For the Boss List
• @Personal list
• @Shopping list
31. Add Tags (premium)
• Use tags – calls, emails,
presentations
• Tags can indicate an action
• Call
• Email
• Pick up
32. Review your list weekly
• Delete stuff that doesn’t
matter anymore
• Re-prioritise list
• Daily and Weekly Revisions
33. Create reminders
• Todoist – reminders – (premium)
Or use
• Google Reminders with Keep– location
and time based and voice control
• OK Google, ‘remind me to call Jan
when I’m at work’
41. IFTTT
IF THIS THEN THAT
• Automate processes
• Upload social photos
to Dropbox
• Save stories from
news sites
• When near home –
text contact
42. Take a payment?
• Create invoice with
Xero
• Check on client
payments
• Take payment with
PayPal Here
• Chip and Pin
PayPal Here
Apple
Android
£69 + PayPal charges
Xero - COST
44. Forms for productivity
Google Forms
• Set up your own
booking forms, enquiry
forms, surveys and
feedback forms
• Forms App (In Google
Drive)
• Forms you create on
your PC can be viewed
and completed in the
browser of your phone
45. Streaks
• Struggle to change?
• Make it easy
• Choose 6 tasks you
want to perform every
day
• Mark off for motivation
We will expect to see 20,000 years of progress in the next 100 years – according to The Law of Accelerating Returns | KurzweilAI
So once, when leanring facts was considered the peak of intellectualism, this won’t be important anymore.
Back in the 1980s Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve.” Industry Tap writes, “Until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. . . . But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months.” And that rate will increase exponentially. IBM theorizes it could someday become every 12 hours.
map the human brain, has calculated that several billion petabytes of data storage would be needed to index the entire human brain. The Internet is currently estimated to be 5 million terabytes (TB) of which Google has indexed roughly 200 TB or just .004% of its total size