Leading Digital

I just had the opportunity to sit with George Westerman and speak about his new book - Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation.

Throughout our discussion, he introduced and refined the concept of Digital Mastery, which requires both a Leadership Capability as well as a Digital Capability, enabling our businesses to to invest in digital capabilities, and advice toward leading that transformation:
   •  Engaging with your customers
   •  Digitally enhancing operations
   •  Creating a digital vision
   •  Governing digital activities

Thank you Geroge (@gwesterman) for stopping in.  This was a fascinating conversation and I'm looking forward to the rest of the text.

Code Halos

Amazon, Netflix, Apple, and the rise of Google, LinkedIn, and Pandora are not isolated or random events. Today’s outliers in revenue growth and value creation are dominating by managing the information that surrounds us, our organizations, processes, and products - what our guest Paul Roehrig calls a 'Code Halo'.  Thank you Paul (@PaulRoehrig) for stopping by to discuss your new book - Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the rules of Business.

Going beyond “Big Data” and analytics. Code Halos spark new commercial models that can dramatically flip market dominance. In this book, Paul and his colleagues show leaders how digital innovators and traditional companies can drive success by recognizing and bulding solutions around a Code Halo. An explosion of digital information now surrounds each of us.  Paul examines the profound impact this is having on individuals, corporations, and societies.  With reasoned insight, new data, real-world cases, and practical guidance, Code Halos shows how to master the new rules of the Code Halo economy. 

This was an extremely interesting conversation and topic.  I cannot wait to contact you again after completing the book.  There will be many more questions for you.  Thank you for stopping in this afternoon.

 

The Glass Cage

What kind of world are we building for ourselves? That’s the question Nicholas Carr tackles in this important and fascinating book - The Glass Cage: Automation and Us.  Thank you Mr Carr for opening this series of conversations.  I'm truly greatful for the conversation.

Digging behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, personalized software and computerized medicine, Carr explores the hidden costs of the rush to automate our jobs and our lives. Drawing on science, economics, and philosophy, he makes a compelling case that the dominant Silicon Valley design ethic is sapping our skills - limiting our possibilities.

The Glass Cage is a riveting story of humankind’s entanglement with machines. From 19th century textile mills to the cockpits of modern jets, from the frozen hunting grounds of Inuit tribes to the bloody battlefields of video games, this is an unforgettable voyage of discovery.  How we can use technology to expand life’s possibilities rather than narrow them?

I'm blown away by this one.  A full notebook of ideas, questions, and conversation topics were jotted down while reading.  There's so much work to do.  Thank you Nicholas for stopping in.  More from the author can be found on his blog http://www.roughtype.com/