Presentation I gave to the HKMA (Hong Kong Management Association) on the trends that are shaping the future.

1. The Reimagination of Everything
Innovating for a changing Future

2. Made in Hong Kong since 1998
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3. Brief History
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4. Today (Short Version)
• Trends, Technology and what we believe we know
– Futurecasting
– How the world keeps changing
• Delivering on (and creating) Innovation
– Experience Sharing in the frame work of Tech Laws
– Our Framework and beliefs
– Potential take home for your Office?
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5. GOING BACK IN TIME A BIT
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6. Back in 2008
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7. Also in 2008
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8. Also in 2008
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9. Also in 2008
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10. 8 Years old
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11. THE TRENDS WE LIKE
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12. Moore’s Law

13. Visualizing Moore’s Law

14. It’s as if…
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The top speed or horse power of a
car would double every two years
The inside capacity of a bus would increase
By every year without increasing its
physical size

15. Illustration
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16. The Role of Code
• The global unifier
print "Hello Worldn";
#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("Hello World");
}

17. What if?
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# { 北京 }
/* 讀者實試 匹戰神 腎上腺飆升 */
漢方食物護膚 ( )
{
冬季奧運滑雪場 (“ 非常中國” );
假期最後一天最易受傷 滑雪返港求醫增
香港人澳門打工潮
}

18. Code transcends Traditional Cultural Barriers
• Code is Social and Sharing
– Connects People from different “borders”
– Open Source going Global
– Rigid Rules
• Global without boundaries
– Influence
– Delivers Culture
– Creative
• Democratic
– Everyone’s a Coder (from HTML, Java to C Sharp)
– Transparent/Collaborative/Informal
– Open Source/Social Coding (eg. Github)

19. Open Source
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20. The result being…
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22. Everyone creates Knowledge
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KNOWLEDGE

23. Intelligence is Networked
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INTELLIGENCE

24. Mass Amateurization
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25. The API Economy
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26. Sharing (or Trust) Economy
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27. Accelerating pace of change
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How many are older than you?

29. Some Basic Ingredients
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LAWS OF TECHNOLOGY
(GLOBAL) OPEN SOURCE
NETWORKEDPEOPLE
ROLE OF CODE

30. What we aim to create internally
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SERENDIPITY
DIVERSITY
COLLABORATION
PLAY
INDIVIDUALITY
FREEDOM

31. COLLABORATION

32. Where Innovation tends not to happen…
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33. Same here…
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34. Sharing is important
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35. Hierarchical Impediment
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36. Flattening Structures
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37. Extends far beyond the office…
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38. DIVERSITY

39. Foreign Born
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40. Innovation Capital of the World?
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Which big Valley Tech Co
has a Valley Founder?

41. (creating)
SERENDIPITY

42. SOMETHING OUTSIDE
Research has shown that most
innovation actually happens
from something outside your
industry being applied to your
own.
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43. Outside Influences
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Listen to
your Wife

44. Serendipitous Data (for all to see)
Creating more moments of Serendipity
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45. What we aim to create internally
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SERENDIPITY
DIVERSITY
COLLABORATION
PLAY
INDIVIDUALITY
FREEDOM

46. We always ask this question…
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How do we get to
have more Sex
(of Ideas)?

47. Innovation = Connections
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48. A bad example…
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49. The new coffee break…
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50. The Reimagination of Everything
Innovating for a changing Future