RAPID CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT...

A Smart Advisory:

"Rapid change is the only constant...

... In the near future, industries will be ruled by technologies that haven’t been invented yet...

... There’s a very good chance that over the next few years we are going to see a revolution in management that is just as profound as the revolution in management that gave birth to the industrial age...

... We literally live today in a world where change has changed... "

~ Gary Hamel, internationally acclaimed management expert and the bestselling author of 'What Matters Now';

[Source: Big Think Edge's 'Manage Change 24/7 with Gary Hamel']

A FUTURIST'S GUIDE TO ANTICIPATING & LEADING CHANGE

Here's a fascinating, though belated, slideshare presentation from change strategist/trend analyst Cecily Sommer of 'The Push Institute', a non-profit think tank that tracks significant global trends & their implications for business & government:

Digital Summit A Futurists Guide To Anticipating & Leading Change

View more presentations from Cecily Sommers.

I like her provocative question:

"Why is it that, even when we know better, we don't do better?"
Her antidote is in her presentation. Enjoy & assimilate.

10 TRUTHS ABOUT THE FUTURE

The following are my take-aways from an expert advisory by futurist, trends & innovation strategist Jim Carroll, whose two wonderful books have been reviewed in my weblog as well as on Amazon.com:

1) It’s incredibly fast, with collapsing product life cycles;

2) It involves a huge adaptability gap, due to accelerating change;

3) It has a huge instantaneity, as we live in a rapid idea cycle era;

4) It hits you most when you don’t expect it - understand hype cycles;

5) It's being defined by renegades & insurgents;

6) It involves partnership with customers, suppliers, facilitators & other stakeholders;

7) It involves intensity, like playing video-games;

8) It’s bigger than you think - there's danger in the comfort zone;

9) It involves innovation intensity from everyone in the organisation;

10) It comes from experiential capital - learning, unlearning & relearning;

[Jim Carroll wrote 'What I Learned from Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward-Thinking Innovation' & 'Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast'.]

INNOVATION IN A TIME OF ACCELERATING CHANGE

While surfing the net, I have found this exciting though belated article, entitled 'Innovation in a Time of Accelerating Change', by Steven Borsch, in the minnov8 (minnesota innovation in internet & web technology) weblog.

In the first part, the author gives a relatively broad brush about the accelerating rate of change by drawing interesting insights from three books:


- 'The World is Flat', by Thomas Friedman;

“... any linear, serial process can be outsourced, even if that process is at the PhD level in mathematics...

... The further we push out the boundaries of knowledge and innovation, the more the next great value breakthroughs — that is, the next new hot-selling products and services — will come from putting together disparate things that you would not think of as going together.”

- 'A Whole New Mind', by Daniel Pink;

"... Dealing with this onrush of information requires people who are suited to see changes in parallel and make associations (i.e., connect the dots)...

... a new world in which “right brain” qualities — inventiveness, empathy, meaning — predominate...

... examples of parallel and associative leaps made by many people who’ve created value out of seemingly disparate pieces that, when combined, deliver much higher value in an innovative way."

- 'The Singularity is Near', by Ray Kurzweil;

"... defines the Singularity, achieved in 2045, as a point in the future when technological advances begin to happen so rapidly that normal humans cannot keep pace, and are “cut out of the loop...”

The accompany graph, 'Exponential Growth of Computing' is fascinating.

The ending part is great as it offers some useful approaches about how to stay on top of all the accelerating rate of change within your area of interest or industry.

Read it carefully. Here's the link to the original article.