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Digital transformation: are you ready for exponential change? Futurist Gerd Leonhard, TFAStudios
Translation from English to Amharic
Gerd Leonhard
Published on 11 May 2016
00:05 Once upon a time business as usual was often good enough
00:11 No more where we are going good enough is dead
00:18 In a world where everything is connected
00:21 Where everything is equally excellent [where] performance is reaching
perfection. There's only one space [left] to innovate in
00:29 you
00:31 Right now you are a central point of the raging tornado of change Fueled
by digitization
00:37 mobilization augmentation disintermediation
00:41 Automation well the list goes on
00:44 science fiction is becoming science fact
00:47 Think about self-driving cars or computers that can learn and think
00:52 The way we work will never be the same the skills. We [need] will be
dramatically different
00:57 Winning or losing are now happening faster than ever before
01:01 So what's your response?
01:03 How will you discover new opportunities in one of the most
transformational times in Human history?
01:10 Are you driving change, or are you being driven by it?
01:16 disruption has become the new normal
01:19 With change it's always gradually than suddenly well things really have
stopped happening gradually this change is
01:27 exponential
01:29 Everything that used to be dumb and disconnected is now. [why] [are]?
01:33 Intelligent cars cities Poets farms even our bodies will be wired with
sensors and will talk to each other
01:40 These game changes are also
01:43 Combinatorial they amplify each other creating a perfect storm of change
01:48 Quantum computing Fuels Big Data the Internet-of-things fields artificial
intelligence and deep learning which Fields robotics
01:57 however
01:58 Anything that cannot be digitized or automated will become extremely
valuable
02:05 Human only traits such as creativity imagination
02:09 Intuition emotion and ethics will be even more important in the [future]
02:15 Because machines are very good at simulating but not at being
02:20 Yes robots and software will do some of our work, but this will allow [us]
to focus on things that cannot be [automated]
02:30 To imagine change squared you've got to start engaging more with what
might be not just with what is
02:38 Immerse yourself in the immediate future five to seven years out from
today
02:42 we need to go Beyond technology and Data to reach human insights and
02:48 wisdom
02:50 Technology represents the [howl] of change, but humans represent the why
the future is about holistic business model
02:58 The opportunity is to be liquid to learn just in time not just in case not
single
03:04 Improvements, but complete
03:06 transformations not individual systems, but new
03:10 Ecosystems
03:12 Humanity is where true and lasting value is created. We will engage wait
and buy things because of the
03:20 Experiences they provide because of their transformative power
03:24 The future doesn't just happen the future gets happened
03:29 The new way to work is to embrace technology
03:33 But not to become it
03:36 The future is in technology
03:38 Yet the bigger future lies in
03:41 transcending it
03:42 Let's live and lead from here
03:51 world of the boat
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Business as usual is dead. Increasingly, science fiction is becoming science fact. Exponential technologies are rapidly changing our lives and societies, every day, everywhere. We will need different skills, and we will need to get much better at driving change - or we will be driven by it. Most importantly, we should embrace technology but not become it. Anything that can be digitized or automated, will be - and anything that cannot be digitized or automated will become extremely valuable. Lastly, we must go beyond technology to define real human values in this new digital ecosystem.
A short film by Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard, produced in association with Accenture
Executive Producer and narrator: Gerd Leonhard and TFAStudios.
Producer and Art Director: Jean-Francois Cardella
Script: James McCabe
After Effect: Sylvain Collet
Sound mixing: Jeremy Joly
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