Digital Darwinism : surviving the new age of business disruption

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Contents
Preface
01 Business in the age of disruption
	I wouldn’t start from here
	Understanding how we got here
	Altered business rules
	Blurred lines
	Regulatory hacking
	Investor demands
	Over-production and marketing-led organizations
	Changing consumer behaviours and expectations
	Digital inertia
	What would your company look like if you set it up today?
	Do you have to change?
	What should your future vision be?
	How can you change?
	When should you change?
02 The three phases of change
	Seeing change in context
	The electrical revolution took time
	Computerization
	Learning from the history of technology adoption
	The three phases of technology
	The awkward middle age of technology
	The pre-digital age
	The mid-digital age
	The post-digital age
03 Disruption and the paradigm shift
	A new theory for disruption
	The power of the paradigm shift
	Design as evolutionary funnels
	The paradigm leap in action
	Leaps in design paradigms surround us
	What is disruption?
04 The third era of management
	Moving from needs to wants
	Pre-management business
	Era one – a focus on execution and scale
	Era two – a focus on expertise and specialization
	Era three – a focus on imagination and empathy
	New value propositions
	New core competencies
	Tech will set you free!
	Spanning hardware and software
	True agnosticism
	The power of ideas
05 Starting your digital transformation
	A metaphor for business
	What does digital transformation mean?
	Important things that are too important to change
	Legacy foundations are everywhere and reduce what we can build on top
	Why are vital systems so hard to change?
	Onions
	Applying digital transformation to this model
06 How to provoke and inspire change
	Why is it especially hard for successful companies to change?
	Why change?
	A move to less desirable categories
	The power of tech disruption
	What do you want to be proud of making happen?
	Opportunity-based thinking
	Why has there been so little change?
	The three-step process to provoke
07 Creating a vision to transform
	The pervasive lack of vision
	The need for a future vision
	A checklist for your vision
	Nine steps for a vision
	A key thing to remember is to pick the right attitude
	Create an indicative roadmap
08 Operations for the digital age
	How did we get here?
	So how do you build the future operations of your company?
	Seek to find ways to reinforce principles through policies
09 A culture for transformation
	The fashion of corporate culture
	Culture and the third era of management
	What is culture?
	The importance of culture
	How do you change culture?
	The five phases of culture creation
10 Rethinking your future
	Life is largely one-off paradigms
	A liminal moment
	What kind of future can we create now?
	The problem of abundance
	The key things to remember when building your future
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