JGC - Carloz Dominguez - Cisco Ambassador, Tech 'nowist'

Surviving, Leading and Thriving in our New World.

- The network effect - he predicts there will be more change in the next 3 years than has happened in the previous 25.
- There has been a role reversal. Consumers now drive the Innovation circle.
- There is an uneven mix of what technology and media consumers use vs what companies will allow them.
- There used to be separate infrastructures for different technologies.  Now it's combined - one medium to transmit and receive different types of media and information.
- Movement of consumer consumption to consumer creators.

Examples of change in power
- Arab Spring
- FB movement against FARC

New internet inhabitants
- a tree that has 3000 twitter followers
- a cow transmit 200 mb of info to the net
- a shoe is now connected
- an asthma inhaler is cross-referenced with environmental weather data (gov.data)
- Proteus chip transmits data from your stomach
- sensors on trash study - tracked trash traffic moving around the country! sensor tech is fascinating.

Net Generation
100% digital 100% of the time.

- average # text messages sent by teens every month - 3200
- extremely young iPad users.
- young users expect touch screen / gestural use. we need to adapt to meet this.
- mobility is king
- laptop is still seen as most important device, but the smart device is trending up.
- 33% of companies block facebook, not thinking that people can simply access FB on their mobile devices.

Implications on Business
IBM CEO survey findings:
- all organizations are experiencing significant upheaval.  CEO's said it was structurally different, more complex, unstable.
- currently experience a very high level of complexity. All agree it will only continue to rise.
- more than half of CEOs surveyed thought they were not prepared for this complexity.
- all expect continued disruption of one form or other.

In the study, CEOs think the best qualities of a CEOs to be able to adapt..
- creativity
- integrity
- global thinking
- influence

What are characteristics of successful companies?
- adaptability
- adapting to environment
- empowering employees
- fiscal responsibility
- leveraging technology
- customer contribution and feedback
- focus on innovation, experimentation
- communication
- diversity
- understanding future trends


STRATEGIES
- Must be responsive to change.
- Must build a culture of change.
- How do we encourage kids to learn to embrace and adapt change
- Importance of visual interaction and face to face communicatoin (though this comment is also cisco selling their product!)


Cisco Show and Share - allows creation of content, it transcodes to all platforms. Includes auto tagging to make video searchable.

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