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Seeing Digital: A Visual Guide to the Industries, Organizations, and Careers of the 2020s
Seeing Digital is like a GPS guide to the 2020s. The Post-Cloud era has already begun. A powerful wave of new technologies, including machine learning, smart products, software agents, wearables, blockchains, speech/facial recognition, robotics, augmented realities, algorithms, and 5G wireless bandwidth is creating a digital world that is pervasive, embedded, aware, and autonomous. It's less a cloud of services somewhere “out there,” than a ubiquitous Matrix of intelligent capabilities. Seeing Digital shows how these exciting innovations will transform the industries, organizations, and careers of the 2020s. Insight-packed chapters assess next-generation industry disruptions, the realities of machine intelligence, emerging co-creation business models, and the challenges of digital transformation, leadership, and risk. This wide-ranging book also forecasts the coming battle between Silicon Valley and China, the increasing importance of the Human Platform, the future of the Enterprise IT function, and technology’s overall impact on jobs, skills, and society. As the title suggests, Seeing Digital helps readers visualize the emerging technology landscape. Each and every page presents a compelling concept, framework, checklist, assessment or other graphical image, with the ebook optimized for today’s full-color displays. Devoid of technical jargon, its provocative analysis, optimistic outlook and practical advice will challenge technology insiders, digital business enthusiasts, and the wider public alike. Throughout the 21st century, the Leading Edge Forum has anticipated major digital technology developments, including consumerization, cloud computing, and the patterns of disruptive innovation. But until now, the LEF’s cutting-edge thinking has only been available to its proprietary clients. Seeing Digital makes the highlights of this important research publicly available for the first time. Consider it your roadmap for the 2020s, and beyond.
223 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 18, 2018
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July 3, 2018
'Seeing Digital' ebook by Leading Edge Forum, a subsidiary of DXC Technology is an excellent handbook to understand the trends in Digital beyond Cloud and will be a great source of information for organizations and leaders embarking on the Digital transformation journey.
The topics have been covered very well in 200+ pages (takes 3 to 4 hours to read) in simple language to cover the following :
1) How Information technology industry has been consumerised and how the innovations and future technologies are stemming up from the consumer market first.
2) The 'Matrix' is becoming a more useful metaphor than the cloud (industry verticals and digital horizontals coming together). Looking at external market to innovate and compete.
3) MI is a more accurate term than AI + Machine learning/Deep Learning. The 'new stuff' will do bother everyone or be left out.
4) Unless carefully used, the word disruption can be meaningless. Also note that dual disruptions at play now - industry and technology in parallel.
5) Everyone wants to become a platform organization - straddling across platforms. Technology and organizations being built on interwoven digital platforms.
6) Business innovation is shifting from inside-out to outside-in - for both inward and outward facing.
7) Cyber (attacks), digital (trust related) and information (too much/less) risks require different defenses
8) IT leadership and digital leadership are not the same (CIO/CTO/Business - positioning) 9) Enterprise IT plays a consistent set of 4P roles - Provide solid, effective, and modern IT services. Promote a strong technology vision for the organization. Partner effectively with marketing, product IT, and the ecosystem. Think like a C-suite Peer.
10) Double-deep (Business and IT expertise) people are the most employable and promotable
11) Innovation is shifting to the human platform
12) Market leaders leverage the technology life cycle
13) Global IT industry competition is becoming bipolar with US & China.
14) Business and technology are inseparable and co-evolving
15) The 2020s and 2030s will see a triple transformation of industries, organizations and careers.
If you are in the IT space (or in any business role with digital influence), strongly recommend.
The topics have been covered very well in 200+ pages (takes 3 to 4 hours to read) in simple language to cover the following :
1) How Information technology industry has been consumerised and how the innovations and future technologies are stemming up from the consumer market first.
2) The 'Matrix' is becoming a more useful metaphor than the cloud (industry verticals and digital horizontals coming together). Looking at external market to innovate and compete.
3) MI is a more accurate term than AI + Machine learning/Deep Learning. The 'new stuff' will do bother everyone or be left out.
4) Unless carefully used, the word disruption can be meaningless. Also note that dual disruptions at play now - industry and technology in parallel.
5) Everyone wants to become a platform organization - straddling across platforms. Technology and organizations being built on interwoven digital platforms.
6) Business innovation is shifting from inside-out to outside-in - for both inward and outward facing.
7) Cyber (attacks), digital (trust related) and information (too much/less) risks require different defenses
8) IT leadership and digital leadership are not the same (CIO/CTO/Business - positioning) 9) Enterprise IT plays a consistent set of 4P roles - Provide solid, effective, and modern IT services. Promote a strong technology vision for the organization. Partner effectively with marketing, product IT, and the ecosystem. Think like a C-suite Peer.
10) Double-deep (Business and IT expertise) people are the most employable and promotable
11) Innovation is shifting to the human platform
12) Market leaders leverage the technology life cycle
13) Global IT industry competition is becoming bipolar with US & China.
14) Business and technology are inseparable and co-evolving
15) The 2020s and 2030s will see a triple transformation of industries, organizations and careers.
If you are in the IT space (or in any business role with digital influence), strongly recommend.
October 14, 2019
This book is thought provoking, intriguing, educational, and informative regarding the prospective of current day realities and future state trends in 2020. Author, David Moschella, shares research provided by the Leading Edge Forum (LEF) using concise and clear chapters with a lot of graphics. A great read to make common industry terms better understood combined with information to help business leaders help their respective company come up with a strategy to win in business most critical topics related to leveraging technology.
April 11, 2020
Filled with useful insights.
August 23, 2022
Достойный набор знаний, таблиц и чек-листов для желающих сделать в цифровом мире первые шаги. Не более, но и не менее.
December 17, 2024
Didn't find it overly compelling. While interesting I didn't think it was novel. I did like the fact that the predictions were well supported with fact and rationale.
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