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Heather A. MooreFounder, The Shape of Things

Grownups for Startups workshop at Sitra, HelsinkiOctober 7, 2014

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The New Game: mindset and skills for the future

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World Increasingly Filled with Digital Things

Tech convergence of mobile, social and cloud data... changing the world




'Digital Things’ Defined:

1. Things losing their material form





2. Things that never had a material form





3. Digital traces (Metadata)




Rate of Change

source: Stewart Brand






Law of Disruption

Social, political, and economic systems change incrementally, but technology changes exponentially.

Technological change initially affects technology only, but once critical mass is reached, the disruption takes place in other, unrelated systems.

source: Larry Downes



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Organisations Now - Everything is Connected

• Globalization - technology binds together systems with radically different time scales:

– financial transactions that happen in milliseconds

– policy that is implemented over years

– social norms that change over decades

– ecological processes that evolve over millenia

• The behavior of each system influences the other in complex feedback loops in which effects may be difficult to trace and latent dependencies exist between seemingly random things

• Both uncertainty and risk increases with scale


The Future...

• Unpredictable

• Full of complex & tightly coupled systems

• Fast rate of change

• Wildly variable conditions

image source: physicsworld.com

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Disruptive is the New Normal



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Resilience:

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Capacity to tolerate disruptions and even to thrive in uncertainty

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• Extreme efficiency -

• Internal focus -

• Homogeneity -

• Stasis -


What Affects Resilience?

+ Flexibility

+ Inclusiveness

+ Diversity

+ Innovation




Similar Roles... New Challenges/Opportunities

• Marketing

• Design, Engineering

• Production

• Sales

• Social Media/PR

• Democratized Tools

• Low Barriers to Entry

• Test Iteratively in Market

• New Business Models



• Fear of Failure -

• Self-Judgement -

• Innate Talent -

• Fixed -


New Mindset Required...

+ Learning

+ Iterative Improvement

+ Self-Growth

+ Experimentation



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New Toolkit

Be prepared

for just about anything!

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Skills are Necessary to Address Challenges

• Directing attention mindfully

• ‘Crap detection’

• Participation

• Improvisation

• Collaboration

• Network Smarts



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Improvisation- practice of creating, problem solving, or acting in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment





Improvisation...

“Some people misunderstand improv....It seems that improv is all about being funny. But it is not. Improv is about being spontaneous. It is about being imaginative. It is about taking the unexpected and then doing something unexpected with it....The key is to be open to crazy ideas and building on them. And funnily enough, this is exactly what is needed if we are going to make our enterprises more creative and agile.”– Paul Sloane, The Leaders Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills (in Gotts and Cremer, n.d.).

“Improv is performing without a script. It’s about working off the top of your head, being mindful and reacting to what’s around you and being entirely in the moment—not the past or the future, but the now. Improv is about realizing that everything you need is in the moment. If you are aware of it, you can act on it.” - Greg Hohn




Rules of Improvisation

• Rule 1: Agree and say “yes”

• Rule 2: Not only say “yes”, but say “yes, AND...”

• Rule 3: Play & experiment

• Rule 4: There are no mistakes, only opportunities

Source: Tina Fey, K. Kelly, Leadership Agility, Using Improv to Build Critical Skills; Dave Morris, The Way of Improvisation




Macro Trends

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Long-term external, complex and interrelated developments that influence future decision-making and strategies. (economic, demographic, legal, political, social, environmental)

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THINGSFrom Physical to Digital and Back




Atemporality + Ubiquity

As an overarching principle, everything becomes digital. Physical objects will be easily transferable to digital, and vice versa. People can access everything all the time (atemporality) from everywhere (ubiquity).





Take Home with You

3D printing, cloud storage and ubiquitous computing will allow easy replication of cherished objects in other places in order to create a sense of home anywhere.

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Digital Patina

Keeping up with the latest new gadgets is becoming a tiring task for many people. A new sort of object will become desirable – one that grows with you and develops it’s own character the more that you use it, as well as keeps a record of where it’s been.





PRODUCTIONProcesses and Actors




Small Batch Anything

A movement against the one-size-fits-all, mass produced items and choices. Choose your own bespoke colors, patterns, design, size…

Reload formerly mass produced items with new, personal, meaning.





Egalitarian InstrumentsThe barrier to making music has been lowered thanks to new technologies that just about anyone can use to share in the joy of song creation.





GamingThe success of Angry Birds put Finland on the map, but serious games like ‘DigitalKoot’, a joint project by the National Library of Finland and Microtask, directed the attention of many people towards indexing the library's enormous archives so that they are searchable on the Internet for easier access to the Finnish cultural heritage.





DIY Hardware Movement

Increased interest by non-technical people in creating computer hardware that makes sense and looks like what it does.





WEChanges of Society and Economy




Alternate Economy

Making a living without money via trading skills and tapping into personal networks will be an accepted alternative to the established economic model. More reliance on transparency, resource matching and shared values will strengthen communities.

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Resource MatchingEconomic recession, information processing capacity and changing attitudes towards sharing and IPR, are enabling new models of matching supply with demand. Ad hoc value creation groups can form in real time, matching seemingly non-related things and actors who would have not met beforehand, resulting in mutually beneficial arrangements. (ex. Captchas).



Education On-Demand

Rapidly evolving technology and post-crisis economic issues have called for a new arsenal of skills and tools that are being developed as rapidly as they are identified. Experts will come from younger (and older) age groups than before and peer learning will become the norm. People will be teachers and pupils at the same time, constantly.





CleanTechThere is a strong movement towards more sustainable energy sources: solar energy, wind power, LED lights, smart home systems that optimise home energy usage and new models for shared energy usage in apartment buildings and communities. Extra roof space is an opportunity to rent out for solar energy use.





ME

Reshaping the Individual




Brand NewMore and more people are becoming accustomed to creating their own branding, in order to take control of their own career and image. As the restrictions of a one-size-fits-all branding make it difficult to incorporate all aspects of one’s identity, these same practices will be used to create many variations to specifically target smaller niche audiences.





Rethinking AgingThanks to medical advances and an increase in life span, a greater number of people are living longer. More desirable and engaging products will be marketed towards the aging with their specific needs in mind.





Empowered WellbeingIncreased interest by individuals in taking control of their own wellbeing and a push from insurance companies for more preventative healthcare will create a need for new diagnostic tools for holistic health.




From Disabled to Bionic

New advances in prosthetics are allowing handicapped and disabled people to enhance their abilities in ways that ‘normal’ people can’t.


example: FAVI“You do not work for me or for a boss. You work for your customer. I don't pay you. They do. Every customer has its own factory now. You do what is needed for the customer.” - Jean-Francois Zobrist, FAVI CEO




example: Local Motors- Design phase is social

- Production is normal

- Sales is on-demand

- Completely open source



Local example: Arctic Warriors- Uniquely Finnish

- Ties to tradition & ritual




CV Timeline- Revisualise CV into timeline

- Highlight strengths/passions

- Look for patterns




Summary

• Old methods will not work in the “new normal”

• Need to strive for an informed flexibility to be resilient in the face of uncertainty

• Create a ‘space’ for improvisation & collaboration (skills + mindset)

• Use macro trends to align your passions with a long term development (experiment with new combinations of ideas)

• Figure out what vision of the future you want to work towards, backcast into a clear purpose, and respond to what happens while keeping the purpose in mind (use CV timeline)




Thank you.

Heather A. MooreFounder / CEO The Shape of Things

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