dots 2015 - antony mayfield, brilliant noise
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Dots 2015
Transformation
4th September 2015
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I don’t finish half the books I start nowadays, and a good many get hurled across the room after a couple of chapters. Telling Lies for Fun and Pro!t, Lawrence Block
Madame, all our words from loose using have lost their edge… — Death in The Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
So let’s put some meat on them bones…
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel
Transformation is the only response to disruption.
In fact, digital is […] a cluster bomb blowing apart who we are and how our world is ordered… and it is happening at an almost unbelievable speed. Katherine Viner, Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian
First editions of revolutions.
Two possible futures.
Centralised, controlled ecosystems. Industrial internet.
GE ecosystem: http://goo.gl/lqcXSZ Coindesk
Stacked Decentralised, open networks. Blockchain-powered.
Distributed
A centralised internet was imagined before.
A blockchain is quite literally like a giant spreadsheet…
Blockchain, Melanie Swan
…but more exciting.
1.0 Currency 2.0 Contracts 3.0 Applications
Blockchain
If you like these…
You’ll love these…
I’ve got no owner!
1217 Magna Carta at the Bodleian Library.
Where will the joint-venture agreement for the internet of things hang in 800 years time?
Dorothy Hodgkin’s diagram of insulin at the Bodleian Library.
Or the blockchain code?
Transformation in the digital age begins with leaders.
It is the individual, operating at the peak of his or her powers, who will revive our organizations, by reinventing both self and them. On Becoming a Leader, Warren Bennis
Our mental image of balance is somewhat distorted because we tend to equate it with stillness… Creativity, Inc, by Ed Catmull
The digital mindset
…no luxury company connects to its customer base more aggressively [than Burberry]. WSJ on Burberry
Fast change, lasting impact.
Two ways to create fast change.
Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers—it’s strictly for amateurs. The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
Heading 3
Heading 1
- 5 years old
- 83% growth y/y
- $20 billion valuation
Unless I Hear Differently…
Unless I Hear Differently…
