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The Future-Proof Organization
COVID-19 is not only changing our way of life, it will hasten the arrival of a radical new future of work. While for many of us working from home has been a new and unexpected challenge - that is just the start of a much bigger transformation set to reshape the nature of business itself. In order to survive, every organization will have to virtualize. Whether it be serving customers through digital channels or leveraging AI, algorithms and automation to ensure business continuity - we are likely to experience in the next twelve months, a decade's worth of change.
Not every business will make it, but those that do will never be the same again. And for leaders, now more than ever, is a time to upgrade their capabilities, embrace new technologies, and reimagine what they do.
Mike Walsh's inspiring new keynote presentation will offer audiences an insight into the organizations and leaders that are successfully navigating this period of change, and how to create a playbook for their own transformation. Becoming future-proof is more than just about getting through the current crisis - it is about being ready for the new world that awaits us on the other side.
Virtual Experience Options - more detail below
NOTE: these virtual sessions can be recorded and include a limited license to distribute internally.
Designing Your Business for the 21st Century
If you could start with a clean sheet of paper, how would you design your company? Should your youngest staff member be making coffee or running your R&D team? Is Big Data something for your IT department to worry about, or a weapon to be wielded by your management team? Do you ban social networks or use them to collaborate more effectively?
Companies built to survive the future are no accident. They are a result of deliberate business design decisions smart leaders are making today. In his ongoing research on the world’s most innovative companies, Mike has organized these decisions into seven strategic priorities.
Build a personalized keynote presentation by selecting the priorities most relevant to your current business and industry challenges.
The Next Generation
The greatest challenge for any company is not just keeping its current customers happy, but anticipating the needs of its future consumer base. Exposed to a childhood of disruptive technology, your next generation of customers will discover, share and make brand decisions in ways you least expect. But that is only half your challenge.
Generational change in your workplace is also inevitable. Your future co-workers and employees will both test the limits of your management models as well as challenge your traditional beliefs about your company culture.
During his presentation of this topic, Mike shares:
The New Marketing Model
What will the marketing strategies of the future look like? The modern consumer is more complex, more informed and more in control than ever before. To win their hearts and minds requires new ideas, new tools and a whole new marketing playbook.
With original research, practical evaluations of consumer behavior and case studies from some of the world’s most innovative firms, Mike Walsh's analysis of 21st century marketing will give you the inspiration you need to totally re-imagine your engagement model.
During his presentation on the topic, Mike shares:
Unlock Your Human Potential
The world’s most innovative companies don’t let culture happen by accident, they code their culture for success. Great culture powers your people to perform at their best.
The secret to “hacking” culture at your company starts with Network Capital, or the social graph of how your employees collaborate to achieve results. Forget the organizational chart. Your future depends on creating a fluid network of motivated and capable people, empowered to re-invent the way they do business.
During his presentation on the topic, Mike shares:
Re-Imagining IT
The IT strategies that made you successful until now are also the biggest threats to your future. Upgrading your systems is easy. How will you upgrade the DNA of your people?
Yesterday’s IT organization was defined by a "break-fix" mentality. Today, a new era of automation, virtualization and cloud IT service management means that your technology teams must flip from managing risk and downtime, to delivering innovation and enablement. This is a business revolution no CEO can ignore.
In this presentation on the topic, Mike shares:
Human Scale Innovation
If you want to break the rules in a traditional business, you need patience and a bit of strategy. The best place to start is by learning to think like an anthropologist and exploring how technology impacts us as people. Human-scale innovation happens when we learn from how people actually use our products, regardless of what we intended for them to do.
The world’s most innovative companies apply human-scale thinking in the way they approach everything from product to experience design. You can too.
During his presentation on the topic, Mike shares:
Global By Design
The future is already here, you just need to know where to look. From disruptive mobile technology from China and India's low-cost business models to next-generation mobile banking in Africa and social consumerism in South America, global innovation is shifting to a new geography.
How we interact, transact and entertain ourselves in the future will be shaped by a billion new consumers from emerging markets. Mike Walsh can deliver you a road map to navigate the growth potential of tomorrow's world.
During his presentation on the topic, Mike shares:
Data-Driven Leadership
Big Data, once just the domain of technology professionals, will soon be the number one issue for all business leaders. Tomorrow’s leaders will make better decisions, not from experience, charisma or intuition but through their ability to integrate real-time data into their thinking.
Based on first-hand research, analysis of disruptive strategies and real-world examples from some of the most innovative companies,
Mike Walsh shows you why the real revolution is not just about how big your data is, but a mindset change about how data gets used in the enterprise.
In the presentation on this topic, Mike shares:
Virtual Delivery Options
Mike Walsh's talks on the future of work, AI-powered leadership, digital transformation and the world of 2030 are ideally suited for virtual delivery. To replicate the energy and engagement of a live stage event, Mike and his team have assembled some unique technologies and partnerships to deliver a high impact online experience for your audience.
NOTE: these virtual sessions can be recorded and include a limited license to distribute internally.
In recognition of his commitment to next generation collaboration platforms, Mike was recently appointed as a global brand ambassador for Cisco Webex, as part of their workplace transformation initiative.
The online summit is a collaborative virtual event designed for small groups, leadership teams and company boards. Mike will present the group with stimulating insights, case studies and frameworks relevant to their strategic issues and then lead a moderated discussion between participants. The event can be recorded by the client for internal reference and wider distribution to those not able to be present at the summit.
Mike's virtual livecast experience will offer your audience a seamless blend of content, insight and interactivity. Using a green screen in his studio, a high definition image of Mike is inserted on animated background slides to create an impactful presentation for viewers that is more engaging than a typical webinar where the speaker is just a small square in the corner of the screen. No technology on the client side is required other than sharing a password-protected link to your audience. Watch a sample here.
For clients looking to immerse their teams or partners in a longer form, interactive learning environment, Mike will co-create with you a tailored program involving multiple topic modules, group exercises and workshops. You can either incorporate Mike's topic modules into your existing learning management system, or otherwise work with our team using our own collaboration platform. For example, an ideal use of the Digital Learning Series is a monthly briefing and workshop on how some of the world's leading organizations are transforming through the current crisis, and what learnings and technologies can be applied in your own teams. Watch a sample here.
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Fintech and Dangerous Ideas: Mike Walsh
“An Idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” – Oscar Wilde
MIKE WALSH joins Brett King of the BREAKING BANK$ podcast to discuss his book, The Dictionary of Dangerous Ideas, which explore 88 ideas in science, tech, and business that are shaping the 21st century, and how they point to dangerous ideas to come.
Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing business for the 21st century. He advises leaders on how to thrive in this era of disruptive technological change.
Mike’s clients include many of the global Fortune 500, and as a sought-after keynote speaker he regularly shares the stage with world leaders and business icons alike.
Mike previously founded Jupiter Research in Australia, and has also held senior strategy roles at News Corporation in the Asia Pacific Region. He is currently a board member and strategic investor in the North Alliance, Scandinavia’s leading digital marketing group.
Mike is the author of three books. His latest book is The Algorithmic Leader: How to be smart when machines are smarter than you. His other books include Futuretainment, published by Phaidon (winner of the design award by the Art Director’s Club in New York) and The Dictionary Of Dangerous Ideas. Each week he interviews provocative thinkers, innovators and troublemakers on his weekly podcast, Between Worlds.
Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike takes an anthropological approach - scanning the near horizon for emerging technologies and disruptive shifts in human behavior, and then translating these into pragmatic plans for business transformation. A prolific writer and commentator, Mike’s views have appeared in a wide range of international publications including BusinessWeek, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
Constantly traveling the world for the best ideas, Mike spends more than 300 days a year on the road interviewing innovators, entrepreneurs and corporate revolutionaries to provide his clients and audiences with a fresh and compelling vision of tomorrow’s opportunities.
Mike has delivered close to a thousand keynote speeches around the world to companies in almost every industry. His customized presentations leave audiences prepared and inspired to transform the way they do business. In 2014, Mike was invited to be a main stage keynote speaker at the Million Dollar Round Table with an audience of more than 8,000 people, one of the most prestigious events on the global speaking circuit.
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