3. Its ALL about the social, geo-
political, technological and
business context for
tomorrow’s world!
The Future of
Beverages, Manufacturing, or
Health or Insurance, or
Transport, or Construction, or
Government, or…
8. The World Demands Very Different Approach
Today
Social, Technological
and Market
Forces Evolutionary
change
Courageous
Strategic
Thinking &
Execution
Analog,
Dumb, Linear
Business of
Today
Digital,
Cognitised
Exponential
Business of
Tomorrow
Irrelevance
without
innovation
Step-Change
Approach
The
Past
The
Future
Your business’s
CURRENT
Future
9. Do you recognise them?
Elon Musk
Brian Chesky
Travis Kalanik
Sergey Brin Jack Ma
Jeff BezosMark Zuckerberg
Jack Dorsey
10. Do you recognise them?
Elon Musk
Brian Chesky
Travis Kalaknik
Sergey Brin
Jack Ma
Jeff BezosMark Zuckerberg
Jack Dorsey
What ONE question would they ask
the CEO of your business today?
11. The right question is: “How do we learn from
the future?”
How to we create ‘Memories of the Future’?
14. Size & Age mean nothing
Scale & speed crucial
IP is worthless
Everyone can access
sophisticated
networks, computing
power, AI, your
business Data and
best software
14-year-old Tony Hansberry
developed a new, faster, and safer
way to stitch patients up after
surgery
15-year-old Nick D'Aloisio builds a
$30-million Internet business in his
bedroom, while doing homework
Jack Andrada, 15, invents cancer
detecting test that costs 3 cents
and takes 5 min to run. 168 x
faster, over 26,000 x less
expensive and 400 x more
sensitive
17. Gutless Leadership in a turbulent world
Wells Fargo Bank
Founded 1852
World’s second largest bank by market capitalization
7th largest public Co in the world
2015…7th most respected Co in the world
2014…world’s most valuable bank brand
5M false accounts – fraud on a grand scale!
23. Machine Learning: Brains at the
edge…..end of the Cloud?
Swarms of connected, intelligent,
learning systems…acting and
transacting, negotiating, making trade-
offs and settling conflicts
24. Your business’s VUCA leadership
attributes?
V = …………..
U = …………..
C = …………..
A = …………..
25. Many collisions ahead!
• Linear vs. exponential
• Predictability vs. chaos
• Physical vs. virtual
• Legacy vs. speed
• People vs. machines
• Ownership vs. access
• Capitalism vs. shared
wealth
• Shareholders vs. ecosystems
• Jobs vs. creative
entrepreneurship
• Code vs. Guns
• Constraints vs. abundance
• Fossil fuels vs. renewables
• Reality vs. dreams
• West vs. East
…and MANY more
37. • $17.8-BILLION sales in 24
hours!
• 175,000 orders PER SECOND
• 120,000 payments processed
EVERY SECOND
• 82% of sales done on mobile
phones
• 600-MILLION packages
shipped
• A day in China now your
businessger than a year's
online sales in Brazil!
THIS IS RETAIL
RE-INVENTED
39. Source: Peter Diamandis, www.abundancehub.com
Digitized Deceptive
Disruptive
Demonetize
(Information technology)
Analog business in a digital world!
Democratize
Dematerialize
41. Impacting every industry
• Medical records
• Hospital documentation
• Title deeds
• Contracts/Supply chains
• Identity
• Voting
• Intellectual property
…the REAL sharing economy, driven by a shared,
distributed, global, public ledger…the new 'Internet of
Value'
44. Dream #workrevolution!
Is it insightful?
Is it exponential?
Is it disruptive?
Is it futureproof?
Is it aspirational?
45. Lessons from innovators
Adrian Gore – CEO of Discovery
lChange the rules of the game – constant redefinition, bold
moves, promote creativity, take risks, excite clients
lMake time for innovation - do the important, not the urgent!
lDream, don’t accept existing boundaries – battle people
who see limits and cower!
lThreats are catalysts for change – its like strong snuff in
your nostrils!
lCreate teams to compete
lMaintain a closet of ideas
46. The more you innovate the more pathways open
• So simple , it offended my need for complexity
• What’s your ‘NORTH STAR’…KNOW what you’re trying to
achieve
• Complexity meets no-ones needs!
• Cadence and Rhythm …and a deadline ..are critical!
• Excellence awards
• Best innovations are BEYOND what people know they need
• ‘Bend the curve’!
• Hire the BEST people!
Lessons from innovators
56. Leadership Lessons from the Future
We stand at the start of
a ubiquitously connected new world!
Whoever embraces these lessons
will thrive in turbulent chaotic exciting
new markets!
Will YOU?
57. Remember, you’ll spend
most of the rest of your life
there…
…and you’ll never get out of
it alive!
So…
What’s YOUR future to be?
58. Reading Ideas
• Finextra.com – Banking and Finance
• Fast Company – Business magazine
• Wired - Business magazine
• Thefinanser.com – Banking and Finance
• Digital Bank – Book by Chris Skinner
• Value Web – Digital Life book by Chris Skinner
• Firms of Endearment - Book by Raj Sisodia
• Abundance – Book by Peter Diamandis
• Venturebeat.com
• www.Mindbullets.net
• www.techcrunch.com
• www.futuresforum.org
• http://www.kurzweilai.net
• MIT Technology Review – magazine
• www.futurism.com
• www.newatlas.com
• Homo Deus - book by Yuval Noah Harari
• Sapiens – Book by Yuval Noah Harari
• Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
• www.innovationwatch.com
• Abundance365.com