Digital Disruption & Adoption
Explore the fourth industrial revolution - digital disruption is affecting all industries at the same time!
Look at the ways in which emerging technologies will transform our lives and overturn current business and employment models.
As the 21st century heads into its third decade, exponential advances in machine intelligence will transform society in ways we can barely imagine. In fact, this disruptive technology is so powerful that the World Economic Forum calls it the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Skills / Knowledge
- Key driver of digital disruption & its four basic features
- Identify the economic & social changes amplifying digital disruption
- Describe the technologies at the forefront of digital disruption
- Understand the two main sentiments regarding robots and jobs & formulate your own hypothesis with regard to the future of jobs based on current trends
- Speculate on job possibilities for the next few decades and beyond
- Devise a tentative plan to guide people in your industry as robots encroach on their jobs
- Identify a leader's role in helping others adjust to a digital world & the people skills a leader needs to encourage and motivate those they lead
- Understand why a digital future could make us value each other's humanity more than ever
- Define the term 'supermind,' a problem the supermind has solved & several problems the supermind could solve as it gets smarter
- Outline several ways in which leaders need to prepare themselves & those they lead for the supermind & detail how an industry leader and their people could harness the supermind to solve an issue or make a discovery
- Critically examine disruptive technology in terms of its affect on current business models & employment