Many senior executives identify "culture" as a bigger obstacle to change than technology. What's the state of the race to re-tool hundred-year old and physical-goods based companies to lead as digital innovators? What practices are enabling them to compete with native disruptors on speed and for top talent?

1. Culture
January 26 2016

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Source: Merriam-Webster.com

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The real deciding factor in the digital era
will be the ability to evolve corporate
culture…enabling people to adapt,
learn, create new solutions, relentlessly
drive change and disrupt the status quo.
-Accenture Technology Vision 2016

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‘…sometimes the toughest thing is to
break away from policies that may have
been assumed that are no longer
appropriate’
- McKinsey ‘Achieving a Digital State of
Mind’
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Culture eats strategy for lunch
--Peter Drucker (attributed)

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Pseudomorph:
mineral that appears in a crystal, in which
the appearance and dimensions remain
constant, but the original mineral is
replaced by another.
The name literally means false form.

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Historical Pseudomorphosis:
“ (when) an older alien Culture lies so
massively over the land that a young
Culture, born in this land, cannot get its
breath and fails…”

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“All that wells up from the depths of the
young soul is cast in the old molds, young
feelings stiffen in senile works..”

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“..and instead of rearing itself up in its own
creative power, it can only hate the distant
power with a hate that grows to be
monstrous.”

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DIGITAL PSEUDOMORPHOSIS

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API culture looks like this…

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The new culture needs to be built around
speed, simplicity, creativity and…
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Speed
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Achieve this and maybe…

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37. Thank you

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