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1. Overcoming Barriers to
Digital Transformation
Part 2
#FutureOfIT

2. Ade McCormack
Near-Futurist, Digital
Strategist, Keynote
Speaker, and Author
Future Of IT Podcast Featuring:
Thornton May
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Thornton May
Futurist, Educator, and
Author

3. “We cannot move forward without being
aggressive with regards to our digital
attitudes, aptitudes, and spending.”
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- Thornton May, Futurist, Educator, and Author

4. “We now need to start building businesses
around the customer as opposed to our own
convenience. It requires a very substantial
change. A change, I would say, so extreme
that you may as well forget it and actually
create a 2.0 version of your business.”
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- Ade McCormack, Near Futurist, Digital Strategist,
Keynote Speaker, and Author

5. “Leaders are going to have to determine what
work is going to be done by machines and
what work is going to be done by humans,
and then how do we make sure that we have
the humans to get that work done.”
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- Thornton May, Futurist, Educator, and Author

6. “In the digital economy, if you’re a human, and
you’re employed by an organization, you will be a
creative, because everything else will be done by
technology. So the next generation of worker or
even the current generation of worker needs to
recognize that their value proposition is what they
can do that technology itself cannot do.”
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- Ade McCormack, Near Futurist, Digital Strategist,
Keynote Speaker, and Author

7. “Unless there’s a lesser creativity in what you
do then you will be replaced by technology.
That’s just a hard reality, and it faces
everybody. Some of us will capitalize on it,
and some of us will fall under the digital
steamroller.”
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- Ade McCormack, Near Futurist, Digital Strategist,
Keynote Speaker, and Author

8. “It used to be man versus machine, now it is
man is machine. Our species is changing and
evolving as well as heading towards, dare I
say, singularity.”
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- Thornton May, Futurist, educator, and author

9. “We’re going to see some very interesting
scenarios as people and robots start to work
side by side. And we’re from a generation
that just could not anticipate this, and it’s
already happening.”
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- Ade McCormack, Near Futurist, Digital Strategist,
Keynote Speaker, and Author

10. “You shouldn’t be surprised by tech. We know
what’s coming. So as a futurist, there’s no
excuse for not dipping your bucket in the
value stream which is the stream of
technology coming our way and actually
doing something for our customers and for
our stakeholders.”
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- Thornton May, Futurist, educator, and author

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