My opening presentation covering the 4th industrial revolution, rise of China, digital enterprise wave, explosion in connected devices, explosion in data, key success factors for digital transformation, and the launch of Bloor's Mutable Business framework, leading in to the panel session on storytelling, startup mentality and social collaboration.

1. Opening Address and panel session
– The soft side of Digital Transformation
CIO Transformation Live | Manchester Central | 18 June 2019
David Terrar | Founder & CXO Agile Elephant | Bloor digital transformation partner
@DT and @Agile_Elephant and @BloorResearch on Twitter

2. What are we covering today?
The soft side of Digital Transformation
Large scale Machine Learning and AI
IT Resilience
Line of Business Agility
without compromising IT Security
Business Impact of
Improving internal business efficiency
A “Zero Trust” security policy
Security Intelligence
Digital Disruption
Embrace, Avoid, Ignore?
Pitfalls in driving
Business Transformation
Morbid Sprawl
of the Hybrid Data Centre
Melvin Conway
(and Conway’s Law)
Automated Decision Making

3. When the wind of change blows,
some build walls, while others build windmills.

4. There’s a revolution coming
…the 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)
1784 1870 1969 Now!

5. We live in
exponential times!

6. 5 mobile apps with half a billion visitors a
month you’ve never heard of
Taobao
Number of mobile monthly users in Q1 2018: 617 million
IQIYI
The number of mobile monthly users in Q1 2018: 421.3 million.
Tik Tok
The number of mobile monthly users in Q1 2018: 500 million. UC Browser
The number of mobile monthly users in Q1 2018: 500 million
Baidu
The number of mobile monthly users in Q1
2018: 665 million

8. China Pulls Ahead of U.S. in Latest TOP500 List
The fiftieth TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world has China
overtaking the US in the total number of ranked systems by a margin of 202 to 143.

9. Name this country?
• Richest in the world
• Largest military
• Centre of world business and finance
• Strongest education system
• World centre of innovation and invention
• Currency is the world standard of value
• Highest standard of living
Karl Fisch – Shift Happens

10. The Digital Enterprise Wave
ride it
or go under!

11. The Digital Enterprise Wave

12. The Digital Enterprise Tsunami
tectonic shift / earthquake

13. The Digital Enterprise Tsunami
Automation BlockchainIoT

14. More mobile connected devices than humans
66.7% of the World’s population has a phone
United Arab Emirates has the highest penetration of smartphones at 82.2%
China has half their population with smartphones at 775 million
Bangladesh has the lowest smartphone user to population ratio, at 5.4%

15. 2.5 times as many IoT devices
as people by 2020

16. IBM Marketing Cloud, “10 Key Marketing Trends For 2017”
http://comsense.consulting/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/10_Key_Marketing_Trends_for_2017_and_Ideas_for_Exceeding_Customer_Expectations.pdf
90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone

17. Your business model
is under threat!

18. McKinsey Global Survey
on Digital Transformation
• 8 in 10 respondents have started digital transformation
• Just 14 percent say their efforts have made and sustained performance improvements
• Organizations ruthlessly focus on a handful of digital themes tied to performance
outcomes
• Boldly establish enterprise-wide efforts and build new businesses
• Create an adaptive design that allows the transformation strategy and resource
allocation to adjust over time
• Adopt agile execution practices and mind-sets by encouraging risk taking and
collaboration across parts of the organization
• Leadership and accountability are crystal clear for each portion of the transformation
Survey from September 11 to September 21, 2018, responses from 1,733 participants representing the full range of regions, industries, company sizes, functional
specialties, and tenures
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/five-moves-to-make-during-a-digital-transformation

21. “It is not the strongest of the species
that survives, nor the most intelligent
that survives. It is the one that is the
most adaptable to change”
Charles Darwin

22. Mutable Business
How businesses can successfully transform in a continuous way

23. Mutable Business - People

24. Alvin Toffler
“When digital transformation is done
right, it’s like a caterpillar turning
into a butterfly, but when done
wrong, all you have is a really fast
caterpillar.”
George Westerman

25. References
Not for reading – just for reference
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond/
https://expertise.jetruby.com/top-10-most-popular-mobile-apps-in-china-2018-edition-9a6e0038cf02
https://www.statista.com/chart/14900/two-worlds_-languages-irl-and-online/
https://www.newstalk.com/news/mobile-devices-have-overtaken-the-human-population-499358
http://www.theagileelephant.com/what-is-the-digital-enterprise-wave/
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/five-moves-to-make-during-a-digital-transformation
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/how-much-data-is-generated-each-day-cf4bddf29f/
hhttp://www.themanagementshift.com/
https://www.smseagle.eu/2017/03/06/daily-sms-mobile-statistics/
https://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-65-billion-messages-sent-each-day-and-more-than-2-billion-minutes-of-calls/
http://comsense.consulting/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/10_Key_Marketing_Trends_for_2017_and_Ideas_for_Exceeding_Custo
mer_Expectations.pdf
http://www.leadingdigitalbook.com

26. David Terrar
Agile Elephant | Cloud Industry Forum
p: +44 (0)1727 866309
m: +44 (0)7715 159423
e: dt@d2c.org.uk & david.terrar@cloudindustryforum.org
w: www.theagileelephant.com
w: www.cloudindustryforum.org
skype: david_terrar
twitter: http://twittter.com/DT @DT
linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidterrar
blog: http://theagileelephant.com/blog
& http://medium.com/@DT

27. The soft side of Digital Transformation
Jason Tooley
Chief Revenue Officer of Veridium
Lulu Laidlaw-Smith
Managing Partner of Collaborate2
Founder of Rip It Up, Start Again
John Shanahan
Enterprise Account Executive of Dropbox
for the UK, Ireland and Africa
Moderating
David Terrar
Founder & CXO of Agile Elephant