Digital humans : thriving in an online world / Paul Ashcroft, Garrick Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashcroft, Paul (Entrepreneur), author.

Jones, Garrick, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2022]

Summary:

"We are all digital humans now. What does this mean for how we live and how we work? How do digital humans thrive in a connected world? Life and work today is a connected mass of networks, people and technology. This connected world is so complex and fast evolving it can be considered alive. In this provocative and insightful book, Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones shine a light on how to activate organizations so that they can transform themselves -- and what digital means for people who work within them. This new book brings together knowledge from a wide range of disciplines including complexity theory, anthropology, history and behavioural science combined with the latest thinking on organisational transformation. It highlights principles (such as algorithms, self-organisation, pattern recognition) that underpin the success of digital organisations based on our twenty years of helping organisations making the shift to digital and our learnings through the pandemic in the accelerated shift to hybrid, digital working. In Digital Humans the authors describe the importance of keeping humans at the centre of the digital age -- and understanding our place within these new digital eco-systems. It provides cases and principles for how to shift to digital and adapt to the new hybrid reality across strategy and decision making, transformation and capability building. The book describes how to transform organisations whilst keeping humans at the centre of the digital age. It is practical, inspiring and engaging -- with stories from some of the largest global organisations to some of the smallest using the most innovative ideas."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

About this Book

Introduction

Our Digital Civilization

Digital Humans

Digital Organizations

Why Did We Write this Book?

References

Part 1 Living in Our Online World

Our Brave New Digital World

Rise and Fall of a Civilization

The Shift to Digital

A Brief Digital History

Impact on Individuals

Impact on Organizations

Digital Challenges

A New Way to Deal with Change

Living in a Changing World

Trend 1 The Merger of the Physical and Digital

Trend 2 The Merger of the Physical, Digital, and Biological

Trend 3 The Rise of the Robots

Trend 4 Algorithms

Trend 5 Modularization

Trend 6 Micro-production

Trend 7 Hyper-local

Trend 8 Neuroscience and Behaviour Economics

Trend 9 Digital Media

Trend 10 Play Spaces

Trend 11 Community Lives

Trend 12 Global Design

Trend 13 Local Fabrication

Trend 14 Swarming

Trend 15 Companion Tools

Trend 16 Lifelong Learning

Trend 17 Universal Basic Income

Trend 18 Experiential Learning

Trend 19 The Metaverse

Trend 20 Blockchain

Trend 21 Apps and Heuristics

Trend 22 New Environments for Learning

The Activated Organization

Digital Winners

Of Ants and Termites

It's Alive

Japanese Society - Old and New

Complex Evolving Systems

Learning from Jazz

Harnessing Complexity

New Ways of Thinking That Are at the Heart of the Digital Human and Our Organizations

Part 2 New Thinking for Digital Humans and Their Organizations

1 The Digital Spine

The Power of the Book

The Organization of Knowledge

Connected to Everything, Everywhere

Enter the Labyrinth

Why Is the Idea of the Digital Spine Relevant?

The Digital Spine Enables Better Decision Making.

Decision Making Online

The Trust Equation

The Digital Spine

Designing Digital Spines

Conclusion

2 Build Together

The Dream of Collective Construction

The Power of Building Together

We Buy into What We Build

Working Together Without Being Together

Design Thinking

The Problem of Virtual Collaboration

Collaborative Authoring

Thinking Like a Designer to Build Together

3 The Organization of One

Gathering Together

Digital Tribes

How Do We Want to Work?

A New Employment Experience

The Organization of One

How to Prepare for 'Organizations of One'?

4 Add-app-ability

The Vitruvius Within Us All

Building Blocks Everywhere

Bring Your Everything to Work

A Constant Work in Progress

De-bossing

My Digital Companion

Modal Jazz

An App Mindset

From Small Acorns

Add-app-ability at Scale

Adopting Add-app-ability

Applying Add-app-ability

5 Theatres of Work

The Digital Agora

The Enchanting Port

The Digital Tsunami

The Distributed Manufacturing Environment

So What Are Physical Work Environments For?

Qualities of Enabling Environments

6 Build Beautiful Things

The Pursuit of Excellence

The Best It Can Be

Beauty and the Beast

The Unfinished Masterpiece

But I Can't Even Draw

Building Beautiful Things

Making It Real

7 Playing Games

A Love of Games

It's Just a Game?

Why Do We Play Games?

From Simple Games to the Metaverse

Games at Work

Making Games

8 The Power of Small Things

From a Single Stone

Call Me Trim Tab

Nudge, Nudge

The Digital Leader

Using the Power of Small Things

Sustaining Momentum

Conclusion.

References

9 Targets and the Mirror

The Great Civilizer

Looking Inside

Digital Mirrors

The Right Amount of Connectivity

Making Sense of the Data

Making a Map

Navigating into the Future

10 Always Learning

The House of Wisdom

A Thirst for Knowledge

Providing Digital Learning Fit for Digital Humans

Digital Changes Everything

100% Results, Zero Air Miles

Designing the Learning for Digital Humans

11 Creating Meaningful Alternatives

The Heretic King

The Golden Age of Athens

A Meaningful Alternative

Motivating Digital Humans

12 Turn It On

The Gates of Paradise

Create a Movement

Designing a Multi-layered Omni-channel Campaign

Conclusion: Reflections on New Thinking for Our Brave New Digital World

Terms of art

About the authors

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Jones, Garrick Digital Humans: Thriving in an Online World

ISBN:

9781119879732

1119879736

OCLC:

1320821100