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Data and Digital expert Clinton Jones breaks down the concept of Digital Transformation. For this and future generations, online shopping, real-time insights, digital service delivery and support and interactions are nothing unusual and in fact, they are implicitly assumed to be on offer. Businesses that don’t offer an experience that is aligned with this expectation will likely fall out of favour and see declining growth and stagnation.
Leading transformation influencer Sandeep Raut shares three building blocks for Digital Transformation: Integration, Insights & Impact. Read his article for deeper analysis.
As a young child I was always fascinated by maps, old and new. They seemed to spark hope, inspiration and excitement of journeys as yet to begin and at the same offer some reassurance about our own place in the big wide world.
Today, with a deeper appreciation of art and history, early maps in particular, with their curious blend of beauty, half-truths, errors and legendary beasts, offer us a metaphor for today’s uncharted waters, as we take our first tentative steps out of our COVID lockdown. And non-more so than marvelous phrase “Hic Sunt Dracones”; literally Here be Dragons first found on the wonderful Hunt Lenox Globe (1503-1507).
If you want a decent conversation topic, check out this article from Expert Contributor and Futurist Kevin Benedict. More and more we rely on AI to make decisions, but what if those decisions are not quite right? Who do we blame? Who gets the bad karma, the programmers, or the machine? Well it seems like it’s become an issue of importance in Silicon Valley and further afield.
Expert Contributor Kevin Benedict puts a spotlight on our human tendency to apply past experiences to new and uncharted territory, highlighting the irrationality of it. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic will require new approaches to risk and disaster.
Privacy may be at stake as the rise of apps in South Korea and China allow citizens and the government, respectively, to determine the COVID-19 status and risk profiles of individuals. Expert Contributor Kevin Benedict compares this to a “Faustian Bargain” – a sort of trade-off that people make to secure the functioning of our societies.
