![]() “We ain’t seen nothin' yet,” Dube is said to have told a discerning audience at a recent Gartner conference. The 49-year-old debonair mathematician-turned-inventor whose sharp suits and features dull before the sharpness of his mind, is seen as a “stealthy newcomer” competing with the likes of IBM. She is a cognitive system platform invented by IPSoft, which is headed by New Delhi-born and New York-based mathematics professor Chetan Dube. ![]() Arik stepped aside as CEO in 2010, to launch Aurora’s insights and analytics R&D lab and policy think tank, the Centers for Open Reconnaissance (COR.vc), and today pursues his passion for helping organizations of all kinds find their next championship opportunity in the markets and industries where they compete.Amelia, Watson, Pepper, Siri, and others are emerging as the frontrunners in the digital race, and the enterprise may strike back sooner than we think. And on Monday, I’ll introduce you to the co-chairs of the next RECONVERGE:G2 Intelligence Leadership Symposium and describe how they see these values saving businesses in a future filled with accelerating change and existential risks to their continued sustainability.Īrik Johnson is Chairman of Aurora WDC, the strategy, innovation and competitive intelligence consultancy he founded in 1995. Register today for the RECONVERGE:G2 conference and we will take these first steps together on the journey to build this new values system. We will not adopt these values by simply thinking about them, or reading articles, or listening to lectures. We’ve built an entire 3-day conference around three critical values that all organizational leaders must embrace to succeed in this brave new world: Teachability, Humility and Empathy. That is the driving force behind this year’s RECONVERGE:G2. The greatest impact of digital disruption won’t be any specific technology or trend, it will be the disruption in our systems of values. That may have worked before the age of digital disruption. There’s nothing you can tell them they don’t already know. Those lacking such values share one consequence with the businesses they lead: they’re not teachable. The values embodied by humility are in stark contrast to many accepted (and respected) business norms: empathy versus apathy generosity versus selfishness honesty versus deception. Humility is the currency of intelligence.Ĭonfronting the truth about the impact of digital disruption on our businesses offers the rare chance to humble organizational culture, make leadership teachable and grow empathy about how to cope and adapt. ![]() Their efforts succeed through a deep curiosity about the world around them and their place in it – a curiosity driven by the knowledge that their initial assumptions will probably be wrong. Intelligence people have a unique role in the organizations they serve as catalysts for humility. Humility offers us a path to understanding this changing world, adapt to its disruption, and thrive in its aftermath. Our biases are universal human characteristics designed to bring us comfort in an unforgiving world. These specific flaws are not unique to business executives. Why can’t leaders admit we know less than we think we do?ĭigital disruption is a case of the arrogant leading the confused. As analysts, the confusion we feel when assessing the potential impacts of these trends on the companies we serve is frustrating and demoralizing. Even worse, the business leaders deciding how to deflect, adopt or simply question the impacts of these disruptors on their strategies and stakeholders are handicapped by biases of superiority, optimism and illusions of control. Only the most forward-thinking software engineers and data scientists claim to understand the multiplying variety of disruptive digital technologies and trends invading our organizations. This is the question we will answer at the 2018 RECONVERGE:G2 Intelligence Leadership Symposium April 24-26 at the University of Wisconsin Business School’s Fluno Center in Madison…īlockchain.
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