Geoff Hollingworth

Welcome to the zero-distance world, where old ways of governing and managing are no longer effective, and there's a new rule book on how to win. This new rule book transforms systems that have not changed for many years (business), others that have not changed for many hundreds of years (politics), and some that have not changed for thousands of years (trade, and money itself).

How do we understand this rule book? We need to start by understanding that change is moving from human to… Show more

Welcome to the zero-distance world, where old ways of governing and managing are no longer effective, and there's a new rule book on how to win. This new rule book transforms systems that have not changed for many years (business), others that have not changed for many hundreds of years (politics), and some that have not changed for thousands of years (trade, and money itself).

How do we understand this rule book? We need to start by understanding that change is moving from human to machine, from prescriptive to learning. And then we need to understand the combined powers these technologies have on all existing systems. Show less

The world’s largest enterprises have not adopted cloud, 74% are concerned about cloud security and governance and 67% don’t have the cloud IT expertise. If you are a large enterprise or you wish to provide cloud services to large enterprises this paper is for you.
This is the third paper in a series, following Changing the Game and Winning the Game.
"Changing the Game," through a series of insights and impacts, attempted to place the massive business changes all industries arecurrently… Show more

The world’s largest enterprises have not adopted cloud, 74% are concerned about cloud security and governance and 67% don’t have the cloud IT expertise. If you are a large enterprise or you wish to provide cloud services to large enterprises this paper is for you.
This is the third paper in a series, following Changing the Game and Winning the Game.
"Changing the Game," through a series of insights and impacts, attempted to place the massive business changes all industries arecurrently experiencing into a simple and understandable framework that allows a greater feeling of comfort with the future.
"Winning the Game" explained what conclusions can be drawn, and what actions can be taken, if these conclusions are to be believed.
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Today, the leaders of major industries are being challenged, seemingly overnight, powerless to control their own destiny despite their legacy, strength and footprint. Change is happening at an exponential rate and humans are not naturally engineered to cope with such a rapid pace of change.

The first paper in the series, "Changing the game before the game changes you," attempted to place the massive business changes we are currently experiencing into a simple and understandable context… Show more

Today, the leaders of major industries are being challenged, seemingly overnight, powerless to control their own destiny despite their legacy, strength and footprint. Change is happening at an exponential rate and humans are not naturally engineered to cope with such a rapid pace of change.

The first paper in the series, "Changing the game before the game changes you," attempted to place the massive business changes we are currently experiencing into a simple and understandable context. This second paper in the series, "Winning the game," explains what conclusions can be drawn and what actions can be taken if these conclusions are to be believed. Geoff Hollingworth and Jason Hoffman look at what leaders can do to succeed in the evolving Networked Society. Show less

How does a company succeed in the evolving networked society? Re-invent traditional business models, or create completely new ones?

Geoff Hollingworth and Jason Hoffman look at what a company needs to succeed in the evolving networked society and how important it is to understand what its core business is and then to understand how the core business can move into the next generation of competition by leveraging new technology capability.

This discussion paper attempts to place the… Show more

How does a company succeed in the evolving networked society? Re-invent traditional business models, or create completely new ones?

Geoff Hollingworth and Jason Hoffman look at what a company needs to succeed in the evolving networked society and how important it is to understand what its core business is and then to understand how the core business can move into the next generation of competition by leveraging new technology capability.

This discussion paper attempts to place the massive business changes we are currently experiencing into a simple and understandable framework, that allows us to feel more comfortable with the future. The paper does this by presenting a series of insights and impacts.
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