Resources

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Digital Transformation: Are You Ready?

Digital Transformation: Are You Ready?

Leading Digital, by authors George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee, explore the topic of Digital Transformation and how it pertains to a multitude of different industries. The topic of digital transformation is not just an idea that technology and software companies focus on, industries of all different types including finance, pharmacy, manufacturing, automotive, and more are all embracing ways to change their companies in the digital era.

The World of Tools and Landmines

The World of Tools and Landmines

Superintelligence, by author Nick Bostrom, is a great tool for framing the importance of the topic of digital transformation. As he evaluates the potential of a reality in which artificial intelligence is superior to human intelligence, many of the considerations he examines are at the center of digital transformation itself. Adaptability, collaboration, and communication: these are topics that will be the vocabulary of the most success companies/industries in a digital era. They also happen to be key themes of his book.

Forces Transforming Our World

Forces Transforming Our World

Have you noticed that the world has been changing a lot recently? Have you wondered what the forces were behind those changes? Well, so did the authors Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel. They wrote a book titled No Ordinary Disruption about four...

The Emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, by Klaus Schwab, introduces readers to the new revolution taking the world by storm. The previous revolutions have brought great changes, but Klaus stresses the impact that digitization will have on history. His intention for the book is to make aware what the fourth industrial revolution is, what it will bring, how it will impact us, and what can be done to harness it for the common good.

Change Your Brain, Change Your World

Change Your Brain, Change Your World

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal is a fantastic read on how changes in brain chemistry can lead to dramatic increases in our abilities to solve complex problems. We are able to change our brain chemistry through a number of activities, be that meditation, thrill-seeking, music, or even psychoactive drug use.

Will Machines Replace Me?

Will Machines Replace Me?

“What To Do When Machines Do Everything” By Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring discusses the benefits and potential consequences of the digital era. Digital transformation isn’t just coming, it’s already here, and this book outlines the steps that you can do to be prepared for this technological revolution. When technology is everywhere, transformation can come from anywhere. Rather than predicting the future, Frank, Roehrig, and Pring encourage readers to go out and invent it, hand-in-hand with the new machines.