The 4th Industrial Age

Summary here

You have heard so much in the past few days about new tools.

What is needed is an overall framework for wielding them. What is needed is nothing less than a new managerial framework

You see we have entered what the world economic forum chair has called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. One marked by the coming together of physical, digital and biological networks.

This is a quantum leap in the means of production. A massive paradigm shift. We need to make a parallel shift in our management frameworks. Network thinking and design is such a quantum leap. Combining the insights of network science to the discipline of design and the practice of digital transformation

( It looks much less like what we are accustomed to which is a simple set of rules. Hans Rosling says this is one of our main erros – have a Consilient toolbox)

The Evolution of Competition - serious $. But the fourth industrial age involves more than competing on purpose. Which I will return to in capitalism 4.0

Competing on Purpose and through networks and ecosystems – stakeholder tilting slide.

Ecoystems and Operating Systems , integrative operating systems – Ray Dailios – build software first and test it. All Weather fund. Break traditional tradeoffs..

Cyber physical systems:

Networks of living and non-living intelligent things

Designing individual and organizational network paths

Each Wave is coming sooner – hence the need for meta-cognition

You have heard so much in the past few days about new tools.

Entering the 4th Industrial Age

Data on anything and everything

Ubiquitous connectivity

Dispersed knowledge, decisions, coordination

Requires a new framework (e.g. mental map, software, OS, etc)

It’s all about the network and connections

Going from Command/Control to Orchestration

“design like a gardener”

Network Design Thinking: a framework for the age

Some companies have recognized and adopted “orchestration” approach

And that difference is recognized

8X better valuations

Next level OS

4 industrial revolution

Productivity paradox (upgrading turbines)

Driving experience – everyone expects more all the time -

that's the great acceleration b/c it feels like "oh shit momennt" to you - adaptive challenge

if we're introducted ZIZO we already get htem to think about different scales from the system

If we were talking about the buckets non-zero sumness....we're focused on our own narrow world - companies don't think about network beyond what touches them...most people missing broader point - if you look at the ecosystem recognize non-zero sumness is what we're aftere - it's win-win