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© 2017 Digital Fast Forward, LLC Source: January 2016, “Future Of Jobs” report, World Economic Forum
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“Now we have to compete against new disruptive startups that are hiring kids fresh out of college drinking loads of Mountain Dew!”
(CIO @ Global Insurer)
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Digital Gold Rush
Digital Drought
Tech
CX
Startup
Less than 20% of companies have the internal skills and culture needed to
drive digital innovation.*
*Source: Forrester
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Digital Workforce Definition
Technology leaders, practitioners, and users within an organization who are
empowered to define, shape, and execute the strategy for engaging and delighting customers across existing
and emerging digital channels.
Source: Digital FastForward
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“AT&T’s competitors are not just Verizon and Sprint, but also tech giants like Amazon and Google. For the company to survive in this environment, [AT&T] needs to retrain its 280,000 employees so they can improve their coding skills, or learn them, and make quick business decisions based on a fire hose of data coming into the company.”
Source: February 13, 2016 , “Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Works: Adapt, or Else”, New York Times article
AT&T Gets It…
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Digital Workforce Migration
Hire New Talent
Outsource Innovation
Reinvent Workforce
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“How do we shift our entire team of 80 process experts to become
design thinkers?”
(VP of Process @ An African Bank)
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New Challenges, New Tools
Experiment ???
Implement Agile/Scrum
Maintain Water-scrum-fall
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Learn Design Validate
Brainstorming, observation,
hypotheses design
Design sprints, lean startup, low-code prototypes
Lean canvas, objectives and key
results (OKRs)
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Case Study: Global Food Company
Big Challenge: • Build Digital Center
of Excellence in Silicon Valley
• Retrain technology roles to deliver digital innovation
Big Results: • Tripled volume of
new digital innovation ideas
• Accelerated speed to greenlight digital projects
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…and here’s what we learned
• People love to have fun while learning new s#!t • Competition drives faster and deeper
learning • Groaning zombies create learning froth
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Digital Platforms Must Evolve To Support Experimentation
Digital Workforce AI
Robotics
Low-code
IoT
Mobile Rapid
Prototyping
OKR Management
Hypothesis Boards