Slides from my talk at Dots Conference this year - actually this is is the director's cut, as it had to be shortened to keep us on schedule. There's some new themes here around the next phases of digital disruption, as well as a return to some of the themes around leadership in digital that I've been looking at for a while.

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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

3. Madame, all our words
from loose using have lost
their edge…
—
Death in The Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway

4. So let’s put some meat on
them bones…

5. 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

6. 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

7. Transformation is the only
response to disruption.

8. 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

11. First editions
of revolutions.

14. Two possible futures.

15. Centralised, controlled
ecosystems. Industrial internet.
GE ecosystem: http://goo.gl/lqcXSZ Coindesk
Stacked
Decentralised, open networks.
Blockchain-powered.
Distributed

16. A centralised
internet was
imagined
before.

17. A blockchain is quite
literally like a giant
spreadsheet…
Blockchain, Melanie Swan

18. …but more exciting.

19. 1.0 Currency
2.0 Contracts
3.0 Applications
Blockchain

20. If you like these…

21. You’ll love these…
I’ve got no
owner!

22. 1217 Magna Carta at the Bodleian Library.
Where will the
joint-venture
agreement for
the internet of
things hang in
800 years
time?

23. Dorothy Hodgkin’s diagram of insulin at the
Bodleian Library.
Or the
blockchain
code?

24. Transformation in the
digital age begins with
leaders.

25. 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

26. Our mental image of
balance is somewhat
distorted because we tend
to equate it with stillness…
Creativity, Inc, by Ed Catmull

27. The digital mindset

28. …no luxury company
connects to its customer
base more aggressively
[than Burberry].
WSJ on Burberry

29. Fast change, lasting impact.

30. Two ways to create fast
change.

31. Management purely by
numbers is sort of like
painting by numbers—it’s
strictly for amateurs.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz

32. Heading 3
Heading 1
- 5 years old
- 83% growth y/y
- $20 billion valuation
brilliantnoise.com/cxfinancial/

33. Unless I Hear Differently…

34. Unless I Hear Differently…
http://unlessiheardi!erently.com/

35. Thank you
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