Mike Walsh

The companies that thrive in the near future will be the ones that not only embrace change but are the first to break the rules. 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?

Most companies are simply not designed to survive. They become successful on the basis of one big idea or breakthrough product. That early success then becomes a rigid code, and as customer habits and markets change, many fail to see that everything that made them successful is exactly what will destroy them later.

Based on interviews with you and your choices on the 7 strategic priorities, Mike will cover a range of thought provoking issues including:

• How your future customers will think, talk and transact.
• Lessons on disruptive innovation from fast growing, emerging markets.
• How to leverage enterprise social networks to solve real business problems.
• What it takes to recruit, retain and motivate tomorrow’s employees.
• How to apply speed, agility and the new lean IT mindset to your technology teams.
• Hacking your corporate culture to transform employee engagement.
• Why the multicultural web of tomorrow will be different from the one we use today.
• Identifying the critical data pivots in your business, the real-time numbers no leader can afford to ignore.

Social unrest, economic turmoil, rapid technological change – we live in a world seemingly dominated by crisis. And yet if you look more closely, you may also see a different set of patterns giving rise to new markets, new consumers and new ways to do business.
The future is already here, you just need to know where to look. From disruptive mobile technology from China to India’s low cost business models, next generation mobile banking in Africa and social consumerism in South America – 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. WORLD NEXT is your roadmap to understanding and accessing the growth potential of tomorrow’s world.
In this session Mike shares:

•  How the Web of tomorrow will be different from the one we use today

•  New markets, consumers and technology trends that will be essential for the global growth of your business

•  Case studies of international companies who have successfully leveraged cultural forces for local market success

•  The disruptive innovation models of your emerging market competitors

•  The new management styles necessary for leadership in fluid, hyper-competitive and uncertain global markets

•  The winners and losers in the new digital world order and your company’s readiness to survive or thrive

There is a new war coming – over the future’s most valuable asset. Big Data, once just the domain of technology professionals, will soon be the number one issue for all business leaders. Consumers are producing more of it, marketers are starting to leverage it, and governments are seeking to control it – and most importantly, business leaders will be asked to make decisions based on it.
The real Big Data revolution is not just about the amount of data that has to be processed, but a mindset change about how data gets used in the enterprise.
With original research, practical evaluations of disruptive strategies and case studies from some of the world’s most innovative firms, Mike Walsh will give you the roadmap you need to set your Big Data strategy in place for the future.
For IT Leaders:

•  The new mindset required to integrate third party Cloud platforms and experiment with exotic Big Data technology platforms
•  Meeting the challenge of engaging business decision makers to commit to Big Data investments

For Marketing Leaders:

•  How to rethink your marketing based on real time data and emergent patterns in consumer behavior
•  The convergent trends of mobilization, consumerization and Big Data and what they will mean to how you approach and personalize your customer experiences
For Senior Decision Makers:
•  Incorporating data into strategic decision making
•  Innovative approaches to data visualization as a tool for communicating trends and patterns
•  Relevant case studies of the ‘winners circle’ of companies who, today, are making the big bets on tomorrow’s Big Data platforms

What’s Next?

The talent question will become exponentially more important in the future as leaders and organizations come under pressure to reinvent themselves for the 21st century. Building digital products is no longer enough for a company’s future survival – the real challenge is knowing how to build a digital organization.

Digital transformation is more than a mere technology upgrade; it represents a completely new way of thinking about leadership, how we engage with customers and employees, how teams interact and collaborate, and the design of the company itself. The workforce of the future is, in fact, a workforce of one.

For HR leaders, the challenge will be leveraging the power of emerging technologies and automation to shift the focus from transactional back-office processes and generic recruitment, to taking a more strategic role in defining the capabilities of tomorrow’s algorithmic leaders, the dynamics of a blended workforce, and how to better use data to hack their company cultures.

Mike Walsh’s Approach

Mike’s approach to the future of HR is to focus on the human impact of disruptive change.  2017 will mark the first full year that generation Z will have settled into the workforce – bringing new challenges for leaders, as well as a widening generational gap in differing approaches to technology and culture. HR leaders need to not only understand the mindset of tomorrow’s employees, but also the kinds of tough decisions that today’s leaders will need to make to remain relevant in an age of AI, algorithms and automation.

In his ongoing research on successful digital transformations, Mike Walsh has identified the key priorities that smart leaders will need as they challenge their teams to move as quickly as their customers do. Through a series of interviews and briefings, he will work with your team to isolate the frameworks and case studies most relevant to your objectives.

Mike then brings a design thinking perspective to helping audiences reimagine the way that their company should work, inspiring teams to embrace a culture of agility, responsiveness and innovation.

DURING HIS PRESENTATIONS ON THIS TOPIC, MIKE SHARES:

• Insight into how IoT turns real-world behavior into clickstream of the future
• How to use digital anthropology and real-time data to profile your customers
• Transforming your marketing department into a company-wide engagement platform
• Case studies on designing immersive, omnichannel customer experiences