Digital Humans: Thriving in an Online World

by Ashcroft, Paul; Jones, Garrick

• ISBN13: 9781119879725
• ISBN10: 1119879728
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-07-25
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

PAUL ASHCROFT is Co-founder of The Ludic Group. He is an expert in applying the principles of innovation, design thinking and digital to large scale transformation, people engagement and capability building.

GARRICK JONES is Co-founder of The Ludic Group. He is a businessperson, academic and musician based in London and a Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he launched the groundbreaking Open Innovation Programme.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Living in Our Online World

Our brave new digital world

Living in a changing world

The activated organization

Part 2: New Thinking for Digital Humans and Their Organizations

1. The Spine of Data

2. Building together

3. The organization of one

4.  Add-app-ability

5. Theatres of work

6. Building beautiful things

7. Playing the game

8. The power of small things

9. Targets and the mirror

10. Always learning

11. Creating meaningful alternatives

12. Turn it on

Conclusion: Reflections on new thinking for our brave new digital world

Terms of art

Sources and Links

About the Authors

Index