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.
>Seeing Digital is an exceptionally well-done piece of work. It combines both an in-depth macro-economic analysis of the impact of the digital age, with all of its micro implementation challenges, while containing a number of useful frameworks to help parse the future. Not a comfortable read, but a very important one."
--Professor F. Warren McFarlan, Harvard Business School
"A 'WOW' book! If you have been looking for a way to think about the Digital Revolution from an organizational, leadership and even an individual perspective, this is your book. It is based on leading-edge field research and uniquely offers both compelling thought leadership and a practical "how to" approach, aided by diagnostics and visual models. Big changes, big challenges and big opportunities clearly stated in a captivating way. A wonderful book that I read through in a single day."
--Professor Ed Hess, Darden Business School, University of Virginia
"I have long been a fan of Dave's incredible talent for flagging important technology and business trends with insightful perspective. This book is the culmination of his many years of research and thought leadership. The use of graphics is simply terrific."
-- Patty Morrison, Executive VP and Chief Information Officer, Cardinal Health
"Loved it. I leveraged many concepts from this book as focus areas for my leadership team."
-- Diane Schwarz, Chief Information Officer, Textron
Seeing Digital is simultaneously profound, practical and hopeful. It embraces the coming world of pervasive machine intelligence, while at the same time providing the tools needed to get digital 'right.'
-- Dave Vellante, CEO, SiliconANGLE Media, and co-host of the CUBE
"Such a great book; virtually every page contains an insight that will make you ask: 'Why didn't I see that?'"
-- Rob Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
"One part practical business and technology strategy, and one part futures and analysis. I particularly liked the chapters on machine learning, industry disruption, and the evolution of Enterprise IT."
-- Tim Porter, Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group
"The 'Moschella Matrix' is brilliant! The book just flows, with a great mix of tech and talent issues."
-- Gary Beach, Author, The U.S. Technology Skills Gap
