Digital Humans: Thriving in an Online World

Embrace the Human Side of Organisational Digital Transformation Digital Humans: Thriving in an Online World is an insightful, engaging and interdisciplinary discussion of how best to transform your organisation into a nimble, digital enterprise with human beings firmly established at the centre of it. The authors draw on complexity theory, anthropology, history, organisational transformation and behavioural science to demonstrate the characteristics that define successful digital organisations. You'll discover the importance of focusing on human beings even as you make the shift to digital and learn to understand the importance of our new digital ecosystems. Illuminating case studies and examples of organisations that have successfully made the jump to digital are explored and the book presents new and effective ways to make strategic decisions about your company's future based on our new physical-digital hybrid reality. A can't-miss blueprint to a market environment and world that's increasingly fast-moving, complex and rewarding, Digital Humans will find a place in the libraries of managers, executives, and business leaders looking for an engaging roadmap to digital transformation that wouldn't have us leave our humanity behind.

Acknowledgements ix About This Book xi Introduction xiii Part One Living in Our Online World 1 Our Brave New Digital World 3 Living in a Changing World 17 The Activated Organization 45 Part Two New Thinking for Digital Humans and Their Organizations 57 1 The Digital Spine 59 2 Build Together 75 3 The Organization of One 99 4 Add-app-ability 113 5 Theatres of Work 129 6 Build Beautiful Things 145 7 Playing Games 157 8 The Power of Small Things 171 9 Targets and the Mirror 187 10 Always Learning 199 11 Creating Meaningful Alternatives 215 12 Turn It On 227 Conclusion: Reflections on New Thinking for Our Brave New Digital World 245 Terms of Art 249 About the Authors 259 Index 261