Hand holds light bulb
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2024 7:50 am
That sounds desperate, but it isn't if you listen to Greg Verdino. He is considered a provocative futurist and an authority on digital transformation. And it just so happens that this Verdino does not believe in a new normal at all. No, the digital expert believes in a 'never-normal'. That is instructive for anyone who wants to get their organization involved in innovation and transformation.
No one expected the corona pandemic to cause so many changes in work. In no time we are working digitally from home, hosting online webinars like crazy, and getting square eyes from daily Zoom, Meet, Jitsi or Teams. We mentimete a lot for feedback and in brainstorming sessions. No, corona was not on the bingo card for digital transformation. We thought blockchain , cloud or the internet of things would be the winners.
Never normal again
In no less than sixteen blogs, written in the last eight years, Verdino advocates a different mindset in his collection ' Never Normal ' (affiliate). He finds it deeply sad that a pandemic proves that chatting about digital transformation does not yield much and that it is all about action, the real doing.
It’s time for companies to realize that, says Verdino. We’ll have to admit that we’ve misjudged digital transformation and that it’s, more or less, easy to pull off. Digital transformation as a mythology is dead as a doornail post-corona. It’s not about embracing disruption to survive. It’s about improvising, adapting, and overcoming.
The Verdino truth is that we are in the midst of a Never Normal era, where the frequency and pace of disruptions require more adaptability than we could ever imagine. Not becoming more digital, but laos telegram data more adaptive. Perhaps we all thought that embracing new technology would solve old problems. Verdino: It’s about ‘doing digital’ not ‘being digital’. No old wine in new bottles.
Also read: Cara Antoine: “Don't create a new crisis with your business”
Edison – Jobs 0-1
A side trip to Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs is illuminating. Thomas Edison – you know, the guy with the light bulb , once said: 'I have not failed. I have simply found 10,000 ways that do not work'. But... that is a very poor track record for achieving innovation: 10,000 attempts with 1 success. No, then Steve Jobs – you know, the guy with the tablet . He foresaw a future in which a market would emerge in which fixed devices had to make way for mobile technology.
The difference between the two men: one tries his best until he finds the goose that lays the golden egg. The other thinks about the day after tomorrow and throws a big stone in the market. Bam!
Ok, I hear you thinking. It's about disruption. No, disruption is only disruptive if it's outside your own control and outside your own organization. Otherwise it's (digital) transformation. It's about innovation, which is the engine of transformation. Innovation is the work of every CEO, every department head, every employee.
No one expected the corona pandemic to cause so many changes in work. In no time we are working digitally from home, hosting online webinars like crazy, and getting square eyes from daily Zoom, Meet, Jitsi or Teams. We mentimete a lot for feedback and in brainstorming sessions. No, corona was not on the bingo card for digital transformation. We thought blockchain , cloud or the internet of things would be the winners.
Never normal again
In no less than sixteen blogs, written in the last eight years, Verdino advocates a different mindset in his collection ' Never Normal ' (affiliate). He finds it deeply sad that a pandemic proves that chatting about digital transformation does not yield much and that it is all about action, the real doing.
It’s time for companies to realize that, says Verdino. We’ll have to admit that we’ve misjudged digital transformation and that it’s, more or less, easy to pull off. Digital transformation as a mythology is dead as a doornail post-corona. It’s not about embracing disruption to survive. It’s about improvising, adapting, and overcoming.
The Verdino truth is that we are in the midst of a Never Normal era, where the frequency and pace of disruptions require more adaptability than we could ever imagine. Not becoming more digital, but laos telegram data more adaptive. Perhaps we all thought that embracing new technology would solve old problems. Verdino: It’s about ‘doing digital’ not ‘being digital’. No old wine in new bottles.
Also read: Cara Antoine: “Don't create a new crisis with your business”
Edison – Jobs 0-1
A side trip to Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs is illuminating. Thomas Edison – you know, the guy with the light bulb , once said: 'I have not failed. I have simply found 10,000 ways that do not work'. But... that is a very poor track record for achieving innovation: 10,000 attempts with 1 success. No, then Steve Jobs – you know, the guy with the tablet . He foresaw a future in which a market would emerge in which fixed devices had to make way for mobile technology.
The difference between the two men: one tries his best until he finds the goose that lays the golden egg. The other thinks about the day after tomorrow and throws a big stone in the market. Bam!
Ok, I hear you thinking. It's about disruption. No, disruption is only disruptive if it's outside your own control and outside your own organization. Otherwise it's (digital) transformation. It's about innovation, which is the engine of transformation. Innovation is the work of every CEO, every department head, every employee.