WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

There is so much to say on this topic and I've written about it numerous times before and recently.

1. Race Against the Machine: Andrew McAfee at TEDxBoston http://sco.lt/84lu8P 
   Andrew McAfee was well known for coining the term "Enterprise 2.0" where he foresaw how social networks would transform the enterprise. Of course, social networks have an indirect effect on business top- or bottom-line. Being from move his insight into more "Core" or mission critical aspects of the organization. So he moved to the supply chain where, if you apply technology right, so can have a profound and rapid impact on the company's profit or market share or leadership. This is the purpose of his current work
2. New magazines focusses on supply chain digital transformation via @capgemini @didiebon http://sco.lt/8f8beD 
   Digital Transformation- We Haven't Seen Anything Yet: 3 min video worth watching via @capgemini http://sco.lt/5YVBnV 
    McAfee now works closely with Capgemini and this collaboration has led to research on digital transformation that is truly amazing (#1 in my digital transformation reference list). It provides hard data regarding the current state of digitization in corporations and some great examples of companies that have started their digital transformation.
3. Real-life Solutions that can be developed with @Grok http://sco.lt/5eUgCn 
   Finally the idea that robots and automation are around the corner and that the next 10 years will bring so much more than what we expect can be traced back to the book the Singularity is Near which provides a compelling case for this exponential growth. I reference here work where technology now provides tools to perform human-like processing using simple algorithms based on the brain architecture.
4. Remote manipulation demonstrated by @mit via @MartinLessard (great french blogger in #mtl #lasphere) http://sco.lt/9MvWZl 
   Finally I like the reference to the surgeons that perform tele-medecine. We often think of robots as being machines that perform repetitive tasks that eliminate humans from the equation. Although this may be true in certain cases (car manufacturing or the Google self-driving cars for example), in the short term there is much greater opportunities in enhancing human interactions and providing telepresence than there is in replacing humans. This is most probably what most of us will see in the next 10 years.