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1. Overcoming Barriers to
Digital Transformation
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2. Ade McCormack
Near-Futurist, Digital
Strategist, Keynote
Speaker, and Author
Future Of IT Podcast Featuring:
Thornton May
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Thornton May
Futurist, Educator, and
Author

3. “The digital age, the digital economy, the
digital society is not just the industrial era on
technology steroids; it’s a fundamental shift.
You might say that the digital era is mankind’s
return to his true nature.”
- Ade McCormack, Near Futurist, Digital Strategist,
Keynote Speaker, and Author
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4. “Those who actually come closer to the natural
use of information technology in the natural
evolution of human civilization that Ade talked
about - those individuals are actually attaching
the cornucopia of technology that actually
works now.”
- Thornton May, Futurist, educator, and author
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5. “Organizations that recognize that… and align
their practices with nature will have nature
as a business partner.”
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- Ade McCormack, Near Futurist, Digital Strategist,
Keynote Speaker, and Author

6. “Most Fortune 500 organizations don’t have IT
represented in the boardroom. The CIO has potential to
be that leader of digital, but they haven’t branded
themselves very well in part, because they were brought
on to be technology managers. So that’s opened up a
gap for this – let’s call it chief digital officer, and that’s
quite fashionable at the moment.”
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- Ade McCormack, Near Futurist, Digital Strategist,
Keynote Speaker, and Author

7. “At the end of the day, I need everybody in the
boardroom to be a digital leader, because
anything less is mal-governance.”
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- Ade McCormack, Near Futurist, Digital Strategist,
Keynote Speaker, and Author

8. “Being a digital leader means understanding
literally how you can turn technology and
particularly information into business value.”
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- Ade McCormack, Near Futurist, Digital Strategist,
Keynote Speaker, and Author

9. “Whoever’s going to lead this digital push has
to understand the hopes and dreams of key
stakeholders. And one of those key hopes and
dreams is actually to grow the business.”
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- Thornton May, Futurist, educator, and author

10. “The digital organizations that are going to trade
at a significantly higher multiple are those where
the CEO’s KPIs are actually his or her
customer’s KPIs. The more value you deliver
to your customer, the more value you will
create for your internal enterprise.”
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- Thornton May, Futurist, educator, and author

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