Digital Humans: Thriving in an Online World: Digital Humans and Their Organizations

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Embrace the Human Side of Organisational Digital Transformation Digital Humans: Thriving in an Online World is an insightful, engaging and interdisciplinary discussion of how best to transform your organisation into a nimble, digital enterprise with human beings firmly established at the centre of it. The authors draw on complexity theory, anthropology, history, organisational transformation and behavioural science to demonstrate the characteristics that define successful digital organisations. You’ll discover the importance of focusing on human beings even as you make the shift to digital and learn to understand the importance of our new digital ecosystems. Illuminating case studies and examples of organisations that have successfully made the jump to digital are explored and the book presents new and effective ways to make strategic decisions about your company’s future based on our new physical-digital hybrid reality. A can’t-miss blueprint to a market environment and world that’s increasingly fast-moving, complex and rewarding, Digital Humans will find a place in the libraries of managers, executives, and business leaders looking for an engaging roadmap to digital transformation that wouldn’t have us leave our humanity behind. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements About this Book Introduction Our Digital Civilization Digital Humans Digital Organizations Why Did We Write this Book? References Part 1 Living in Our Online World Our Brave New Digital World Rise and Fall of a Civilization The Shift to Digital A Brief Digital History Impact on Individuals Impact on Organizations Digital Challenges A New Way to Deal with Change References Living in a Changing World Trend 1 The Merger of the Physical and Digital Trend 2 The Merger of the Physical, Digital, and Biological Trend 3 The Rise of the Robots Trend 4 Algorithms Trend 5 Modularization Trend 6 Micro-production Trend 7 Hyper-local Trend 8 Neuroscience and Behaviour Economics Trend 9 Digital Media Trend 10 Play Spaces Trend 11 Community Lives Trend 12 Global Design Trend 13 Local Fabrication Trend 14 Swarming Trend 15 Companion Tools Trend 16 Lifelong Learning Trend 17 Universal Basic Income Trend 18 Experiential Learning Trend 19 The Metaverse Trend 20 Blockchain Trend 21 Apps and Heuristics Trend 22 New Environments for Learning References The Activated Organization Digital Winners Of Ants and Termites It’s Alive Japanese Society – Old and New Complex Evolving Systems Learning from Jazz Harnessing Complexity The Activated Organization New Ways of Thinking That Are at the Heart of the Digital Human and Our Organizations References Part 2 New Thinking for Digital Humans and Their Organizations 1 The Digital Spine The Power of the Book The Organization of Knowledge Connected to Everything, Everywhere Enter the Labyrinth Why Is the Idea of the Digital Spine Relevant? The Digital Spine Enables Better Decision Making Decision Making Online The Trust Equation The Digital Spine Designing Digital Spines Conclusion References 2 Build Together The Dream of Collective Construction The Power of Building Together We Buy into What We Build Working Together Without Being Together Design Thinking The Problem of Virtual Collaboration Collaborative Authoring Thinking Like a Designer to Build Together Conclusion References 3 The Organization of One Gathering Together Digital Tribes How Do We Want to Work? A New Employment Experience The Organization of One How to Prepare for ‘Organizations of One’? Conclusion References 4 Add-app-ability The Vitruvius Within Us All Building Blocks Everywhere Bring Your Everything to Work A Constant Work in Progress De-bossing My Digital Companion Modal Jazz An App Mindset From Small Acorns Add-app-ability at Scale Adopting Add-app-ability Applying Add-app-ability Conclusion References 5 Theatres of Work The Digital Agora The Enchanting Port The Digital Tsunami The Distributed Manufacturing Environment So What Are Physical Work Environments For? Qualities of Enabling Environments Conclusion References 6 Build Beautiful Things The Pursuit of Excellence The Best It Can Be Beauty and the Beast The Unfinished Masterpiece But I Can’t Even Draw Building Beautiful Things Making It Real Conclusion References 7 Playing Games A Love of Games It’s Just a Game? Why Do We Play Games? From Simple Games to the Metaverse Games at Work Making Games Conclusion References 8 The Power of Small Things From a Single Stone Call Me Trim Tab Nudge, Nudge The Digital Leader Using the Power of Small Things Sustaining Momentum Conclusion References 9 Targets and the Mirror The Great Civilizer Looking Inside Digital Mirrors The Right Amount of Connectivity Making Sense of the Data Making a Map Navigating into the Future Conclusion References 10 Always Learning The House of Wisdom A Thirst for Knowledge Providing Digital Learning Fit for Digital Humans Digital Changes Everything 100% Results, Zero Air Miles Designing the Learning for Digital Humans Conclusion References 11 Creating Meaningful Alternatives The Heretic King The Golden Age of Athens A Meaningful Alternative Motivating Digital Humans Conclusion References 12 Turn It On The Gates of Paradise Create a Movement Designing a Multi-layered Omni-channel Campaign Conclusion References Conclusion: Reflections on New Thinking for Our Brave New Digital World Terms of art About the authors Index EULA