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Cosmic
The Power of Digital Technology
Kate Doodson
@cosmickated

2.
‘We haven’t just flipped
from analogue to digital –
we’ve shifted from a
human-driven world to one
driven by information.’

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Setting the scene
• The world is being transformed by a series of
profound technological changes – the second
machine age
• Digital technology is changing all of our lives, the
way we work, our society and our politics
• Over the the next 20 years, 35% of jobs will become
automated

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And the pace of change is unprecedented
Knowledge Doubling Curve
• 1900s, Knowledge doubled every century
• 1940s, knowledge doubled every 25 years
• Currently, knowledge doubling every 13
months
• By 2020, every 12 hours?
Source: Buckminster Fuller and IBM, Harvard University Jeff Lichtman
http://www.futuristgerd.com/2014/07/16/knowledge-doubling-every-12-months-soon-to-
be-every-12-hours-via-industry-tap/

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What’s the impact?
At one end… 3D printing of organs for
surgeons, Artificial Intelligence and robotic
movement with the mind

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But at the other end…Digital
impacts on our everyday
activities
• Public transport, pay for
coffee
• Agriculture, farming
• Household goods, shopping
• Keeping fit, banking
• And how we work…..

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What is digital doing to the world of work?
• Driving open ecosystems of work, enabling flexible
engagement of outside resources, greater
portability of skills and the formation of digital talent
hubs.
• Creating fluidity in the delivery of education and
training. Alternative models are emerging from
traditional education
• Disrupting traditional ways of organising work,
leading to the collapse of siloes and hierarchies as
well as new leadership and management styles.
• Demanding (and enabling) a different workforce –
favouring different work skills and mind-sets.
Accenture: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/surviving-future-job-market-how-lose-your-computer-lee-naik?trk=hp-feed-article-title-
publish

8.
PwC study Workforce 2022

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Millennial workforce
• As generations
collide, workforces
become more
diverse
• Digital natives
• Many of the roles
and job titles will be
ones we’ve not
Michael Rendell
Head of Human Capital Consulting, PwC

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What skills will be needed?
• Digital literacy skills will be required for all, no opt
out?
• Ability to analyse and create insights from data
without sinking
• Collaborate & influence, market ideas and tell
stories, lead at all levels, be creative
• Build just-in-time skills
• Creative people, think-out-of-the-box types
• Cultivate the opposite of a precious mind-set, if
you’re competing against an informally contracted,

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Trend: Business disruption

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The centre of the Digital
Vortex symbolizes a
“new normal”
characterised by rapid
and constant change as
industries become
increasingly digital
The Global Centre for Digital Business Transformation 2015 - ranking of industries by potential for digital disruption is based on quantitative
analysis of market data and responses from 941 business leaders across 13 countries.

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How can we respond?

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Gartner’s Digital Dragon
• We need business
leaders to
understand that to
compete in the 21st
Century they need
to tame the digital
dragon.
• They need to
respond to ongoing
needs for efficiency

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Bimodal business
Reliability
Planned, high ceremony
Long term suppliers
Conventional projects
IT centric – removed from customers
Long cycles of procurement
Agility
Agile, low ceremony
Small new vendors
New and uncertain projects
Business centric, close to customer
Short cycles of procurement

16.
Push-me and Pull-me

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What about our productivity?
It’s only going to get
worse
Spend 28% of our
time on emails
Ave number of
emails we send per
day?
125
And receive?

18.
Email has become our intray, things to
do list, our CRM, our internal
communication and everything else!
Radicati report 2015

19.
It’s time for action
‘It’s time we focus
on being productive
instead of busy…’

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Getting Things Done

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Capture
Collect everything
• Be a harvester
• Capture your internet
browsing, your thoughts, your
paperwork

22.
Capture on digital
• Browsing the internet – read
an article – save to Evernote
or Google Keep
• Receive an email with a link
to a publication? Save to
Evernote
• On phone and browsing
internet
• Take a photo – save to
https://evernote.com/

23.
Capture your paperwork
Scannable, evernote, or take a photo!
• RM – zoho or capsule

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Capture your things to do….
• Put ALL new items into
‘the in list’
• Harvest every action - personal,
shopping, business, ideas, questions to
ask colleagues

25.
Clarify the actions
• Review your in list
• Does the action take less
than 2 minutes? Do it
• Can you delegate it?
Delegate
• Or Defer the action. Create
the very next action…..
And move to a new list
(with date and time)
DO
DELEGATE
DEFER

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List creation
• Add that very next action to a list….
• @next actions (or things to do)
• @Project list (lots of things in projects)
• @Waiting for..
• @Someday maybe list
• @For the Boss List
• @Personal list
• @Shopping list

27.
Add Tags (premium)
• Use tags – calls, emails,
presentations
• Tags can indicate an action
• Call
• Email
• Pick up

28.
Review your list weekly
• Delete stuff that doesn’t
matter anymore
• Re-prioritise list
• Daily and Weekly Revisions

29.
Create reminders
• Todoist – reminders – (premium)
Or use
• Google Reminders with Keep– location
and time based and voice control
• OK Google, ‘remind me to call Jan
when I’m at work’

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Getting Things Done

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Paperless working?
• Scan everything – Doxie One
• Incoming, archive, contracts

32.
Meeting notes
• Microsoft OneNote
• Bamboo paper
• Minutes.io
• Beesy.me

33.
Hardware for productivity - Microsoft
Surface
• Tablet with built in
keyboard
• With docking station
• With pen
• £7-800

34.
Other apps to keep you organised
• Trip log
• Harvest

35.
Photomyne
• Photomyne

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IFTTT
IF THIS THEN THAT
• Automate processes
• Upload social photos
to Dropbox
• Save stories from
news sites
• When near home –
text contact

37.
Take a payment?
• Create invoice with
Xero
• Check on client
payments
• Take payment with
PayPal Here
• Chip and Pin
PayPal Here
Apple
Android
£69 + PayPal charges
Xero - COST

38.
Conference session?
Periscope

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Forms for productivity
Google Forms
• Set up your own
booking forms, enquiry
forms, surveys and
feedback forms
• Forms App (In Google
Drive)
• Forms you create on
your PC can be viewed
and completed in the
browser of your phone

40.
Streaks
• Struggle to change?
• Make it easy
• Choose 6 tasks you
want to perform every
day
• Mark off for motivation

41.
Thank you
Any Questions?