Slides to Ross Dawson's keynote at the Oracle Impact series of events

1. Technology Leadership
in an
Accelerating World
▪ Futurist
▪ Strategy advisor
▪ Author
@rossdawson

2. Technology expertise at the heart of the future

3. Source: OECD
Increasing divergence in performance

4. Finite players play within boundaries
Infinite players play with boundaries
- James Carse

5. Acceleration
Platforms
Leadership
Strategy
Organisations
Capabilities

6. Acceleration

7. Consistent exponential growth

8. Everyone and everything connected

9. Image: Mark Pegrum
Acceleration
Vibration
Water levels
Leaks
Acoustic/Ultrasound
Light
Solar intensity
Chemical/Gas
Odour
Pollution
Motion/Velocity/Displacement
Electric
Magnetic
Position
Biological process
Proximity
Flow
Pressure
Force/Strain/Load/Torque
Temperature
Humidity/Moisture
Air pressure
Sensors everywhere

10. Data explosion

11. A voracious appetite for data
Source: EasySolutions

12. Source: Google
AI designs AI
Human-designed
Neural net
AI-designed
Neural net

13. Source: IDC
Blockchain and scalability

14. Platforms

15. Brain Internet
Applications
Organisations Industries
Proteins Actors
Society
PoliticsContagion
Networks everywhere

16. “Ranked by market value, 60 of the
world’s 100 largest corporations
earn at least half of their revenue
from platform markets”
- Prof. Thomas Eisenmann, Harvard Business School

17. enable
value-creating interactions
between
external
producers and consumers,
based on an
open infrastructure
and
governance structures
Adapted from: Platform Revolution, Parker, van Alstyne and Choudhary
Platforms

18. Open source platforms for machine learning

19. Company as platform

20. Organisations

21. Bounded Unbounded
Organisations are networks

22. Work can be done anywhere

23. Task automation

26. Shifting to the human/ AI enterprise
Source: StitchFix

27. Strategy

28. Building future-focused strategy

29. Strategy for emerging technologies
Image: chrisgj6
Vision
Education Governance
Roadmap
Exploration
Capabilities

30. Strategy requires understanding

31. Framing privacy, explainability, bias, safety and impact

32. Develop a roadmap for the journey ahead

33. Source: The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
Exploring possibilities

34. Capabilities

35. Attracting and developing internal and external talent

36. Data strategies and governance

37. Strategy for development platforms

38. A culture of experimentation

39. Effective ecosystem engagement

40. Leadership

41. The only way
you can control your destiny
is to be more flexible
than your environment
- The Law of Requisite Variety

42. A race with no finish line

43. Lead your organisations into the future

44. Acceleration
Platforms
Leadership
Strategy
Organisations
Capabilities

45. An explosion of possibilities