Slides from my keynote at Sweden's Ministry for Enterprise and Innovation in connection with a seminar on Competence and Digitalization's Opportunities (Kompetens och digitaliseringens möjligheter) on Sept 26, 2017
3. If the rate of change on the
outside (of an organization)
exceeds the rate of change on
the inside, the end is near....
-Jack Welch
4. Digital is the main reason
just over half the Fortune 500 companies
have disappeared since the year 2000.
-Pierre Nanterme, CEO Accenture, 2016
Yet..Digital disruption
has only just begun.
6. Decline in routine jobs, even after recovery
H. Siu (Univ of BC) & N. Jaimovich (Duke Univ), 2015
7. The commodification of banking
In 2000, the U.S. cash equities trading desk at
Goldman Sachs’s New York headquarters
employed 600 traders, buying and selling
stock for large clients.
Today there are just 2 traders left.
http://www.nanalyze.com/2017/02/artificial-intelligence-investment-banking/
8. If replace 1000
workers with
one more robot
Data from 1990 to 2007 in the USA
1) Employment to
population
ratio down by
0.18-0.34 PPt
2) Wages down
by 0.25-0.50%
D. Acemoglu (MIT) & P. Restrepo (Boston Univ), Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US
Labor Markets 2017, Natl Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper.
9. All jobs have been created within non-routine
Food service
Housekeeper
Programmers
Data scientist
10. Jobs that did not exist in 2006
App developer
Social media manager
Uber driver
Driverless car engineer
Cloud computing specialist
Big data analyst/data scientist
Sustainability manager
YouTube content creators
Drone operators
Millennial generational expert
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/10-jobs-that-didn-t-exist-10-years-ago/
11. All our knowledge is about the past, but all
our strategic decisions are about the future.
What we don’t know
we don’t know
about the future
What we
know
What we know
we don’t know
12. “We always overestimate the change
that will occur in the next two years
and underestimate the change that will
occur in the next ten.”
- Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, 1996
15. Olli - 3D printed autonomous vehicle
with IBM Watson
https://www.3dprintingbusiness.directory/news/local-motors-prepares-serial-production-ollie-3d-printed-smart-vehicles/
17. “Flash organization” created with Foundry
staffing Upwork freelancers
Valentine et al., 2017, http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2017/flashorgs/flash-orgs-chi-2017.pdf
19. FIRM FOUNDED EMPLOYEES MKT CAP
BMW 1916 122,000 $56B
UBER 2009 7,000 $62B
MARRIOTT 1927 200,000 $32B
AIRBNB 2008 5,000 $21B
WALT DISNEY 1923 185,000 $172B
FACEBOOK 2004 15,000 $369B
WALMART 1962 2,300,000 $206B
ALIBABA 1999 36,000 $241B
Adapted from Parker & Van Alstyne, with Choudary, 2016, and updated January 2017
Something fundamental is changing
28. Community platform
Hierarchicalfirm
VS
E.g., Microsoft
~ Created by employees within
organizational boundaries
E.g., Automattic
~ Created by community collaborators
regardless of affiliation
Teigland, Di Gangi, & Yetis 2012
The Flipped Firm: New model of value creation?
35. Facilitating innovation at a makerspace at
Georgia Institute of Technology
https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/53813/a_review_of_university_maker_spaces.pdf