An illustrated summary of Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction, by visionary Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tom Siebel. Discover how Cloud Computing, Big Data, AI, and IoT technologies are transforming business and government. Learn more and read an excerpt at www.digitaltransformation.ai

1. Digital Transformation
Survive and Thrive in an Era of
Mass Extinction
by Thomas M. Siebel
CEO, C3.ai
www.digitaltransformation.ai
#SiebelDT

2. Patterns of Transformation
Transformations, in nature and in
business, follow similar patterns.

3. Daniel Bell –
Harvard Sociologist & Visionary
In 1973, Bell predicts the coming
“Post-Industrial Society” and
“Information Age” will create change
on the scale of the Industrial
Revolution.

4. From Pre-Industrial
to Post-Industrial Society
Over the ages, technological
innovations have driven major shifts
in economic and social structures.

5. Transformations in History
We can look at transformations from
even a longer-term perspective.

6. Formation of Earth
Since Earth’s formation 4.5 billion
years ago, and the emergence of life a
billion years later, it has been a story
of successive transformations.

7. 1859
Charles Darwin publishes
On the Origin of the Species
Darwin introduces the theory of evolution.

8. Darwin’s Theory: Smooth,
Gradual Evolution
Darwin’s theory said evolution occurs
in a continuous, gradual way.

9. Gaps in the Fossil Record
But major gaps in the fossil record
called into question the idea of smooth,
continuous evolution.

10. 1972: Harvard paleontologist Stephen
Jay Gould proposes that evolution is not
continuous—it occurs as long stretches
of relative equilibrium, punctuated by
moments of sudden and massive change.
Stephen Jay Gould:
Punctuated Equilibrium

11. Mass Extinction Events
Since the Cambrian Explosion 541 million
years ago—from which emerged the
precursors of nearly all animal species
today—there have been five mass
extinction events.

12. 75% or
More of Species Eliminated
In each of these mass extinctions, 75%
or more of species were eliminated
from the planet.

13. Discontinuity,
Driven by Disruption,
Is the Rule
Every mass extinction is also a new
beginning: The voids in the
ecosystem are rapidly filled by
massive speciation of the survivors.

14. Mass Extinction
of the Dinosaurs
Nature’s last mass extinction,
the K-T event 65 million years ago,
wiped out the dinosaurs...

15. Rise of the Mammals
…and gave rise to the mammals.

16. The Story Worked Out Well for Humans
When science and technology meet social
and economic systems, you tend to see
something like punctuated equilibrium.
Something that has been stable for a
long period suddenly disrupts radically—
and then finds a new stability.

17. Discovery of Fire
Examples include the discovery of fire
more than 1 million years ago….

18. Domestication of Dogs
The domestication of dogs,
14,000 years ago...

19. Agriculture
The development of agriculture,
12,000 years ago...

20. The invention of the steam engine,
in the early 1700s...
Steam Engine

21. The Jacquard Loom in the early 1800s...
Jacquard Loom

22. Transcontinental Railroad
Construction of the the transcontinental
railroad in the 1860s...

23. Urban Electrification
Urban electrification in the
early 1900s...

24. And the invention of the transistor,
that ushered the creation of the
computer and the Information Age.
Transistor

25. Computing has evolved with its own
series of disruptive transitional shifts.
Evolution of Computing

26. Software has also evolved in waves
of step-function innovation.
Evolution of Software

27. With today’s digital transformation,
we have now entered a new era
of the Information Age.
Digital Transformation

28. Since 2000, 52% of Fortune 500
acquired, merged, or bankrupt.
The Fortune 500 Mass Extinction

29. Many great companies have disappeared—
Westinghouse, Kodak, Sears…
Corporate Mass Extinction

30. New companies are emerging with
a different kind of corporate “DNA.”
New Corporate “DNA”

31. 70% of companies will try to transform,
only 21% will succeed.
Transformation Is Difficult

32. Four 21st-century technologies
are driving digital transformation.
What’s Driving
Digital Transformation?

33. Elastic cloud computing provides
unlimited, affordable computation
and data storage.
Elastic Cloud Computing

34. Big data enables analysis of exabyte-
scale data sets with no sampling error
Big Data

35. AI / Machine Learning
AI / machine learning powers
prediction engines that can rapidly and
accurately perform virtually any
specific task.

36. Internet of Things
The internet of things makes
every device a computer—
creating a computing platform
of unprecedented scale.

37. The confluence of these
technologies is fundamentally
changing the way business and
government will operate in the
21st century.
Confluence of Technologies

38. Digital Transformation
Changes Everything
10x faster, 300x greater scale,
and 3,000x bigger impact than
the Industrial Revolution

39. Advance Praise for Digital Transformation
“Urgent doesn’t begin to describe the insights
contained in Tom Siebel’s Digital
Transformation.”
Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google
“Tom Siebel provides leaders with the advice they
need to guide organizations through a time
brimming with risk and opportunity.”
Christopher L. Eisgruber
President, Princeton University
“Tom Siebel’s Digital Transformation should alarm
every CEO and government leader …”
Robert M. Gates
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
“Tom Siebel describes the monumental importance of
the ongoing digital transformation in historical
context…”
Zico Kolter
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
“Digital Transformation is a must read for today’s
business leaders.”
Charles Schwab
Founder and Chairman, The Charles Schwab Corporation
“Tom paints an inspiring vision for an inevitable
future.”
George Roberts
Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, KKR

40. www.digitaltransformation.ai
Publication Date: July 9, 2019
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