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and realized that mastery of change involved the melding together of art, science, discipline, and technology. I

rend 5: Modularization
Everything is becoming a pop-up. Restaurants, galleries, rock concerts, festivals, conferences are all here today, gone tomorrow. We have created sophisticated, highly configurable, plug-n-play infrastructure that can be deployed rapidly as and when required. Apps, components and processes are plugged on a project by project, task by task, basis. Modularization in the form of flat packs has transformed the market for home furnishings. Now it is being widely applied in education, architecture and engineering. The world is becoming a vast Lego set that can be assembled at speed and scaled up when required.
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Some algorithms are like the rock-stars of the applied mathematics universe. John von Neumann cracked sorting of data in 1945 when he created the Merge Sort algorithm that uses divide and conquer to solve problems arising from massive data sets. Fourier algorithms transform signals from time-based data to frequencies, a function that is behind absolutely everything we do in the digital realm. Dijkstras algorithm helps us find the f

lgorithms are now assuming a pivotal, and often mysterious, role in our lives. Mathematical in origin, they are not as specific as formulas. They are more like a set of rules or recipes. Unlike a programme, which specifies each step, algorithms can be applied more generally to wider sets of data, performing calculations, processing data and automating log

Lack of digital accessibility is one issue leading to digital illiteracy. People without access are in very re

As we have noted already, work as we know it is undoubtedly being changed by the mass use of robots, putting numerous jobs at risk in knowledge and in industry. In a 2013 study, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne examined the vulnerability of 702 occupations. They found that 47 percent of jobs in the US were at risk; 35 percent in the UK (which is more oriented towards creative fields) and 49 percent in Japan. A plethora of recent studies into the impact of automation has been conducted with similar findings.
The impact on our

Some might fear the threat of AI to us as humans, but it is not machine consciousness – yet. Rather, at this stage it amplifies human intelligence and permits us to operate at a different scale. Genome sequencing, for example, is now computerized and performed with optimized sequences for reading the information in a fraction of the time it once took.

redictive analysis, for instance, is now significantly more powerful and accessible. It is having a powerful impact in the medical industry and saving lives.

more problematic consequence of the merger of the online and the physical is the application of big data principles, data harvesting and social media for social engineering and political purposes. T

For digitally enabled organizations, transformation is about building capability internally and lining up the right digital tools to enable the people to transform the organization themselves. For example, using a single software platform, organizations can provide a series of apps for virtual teams to unlock new knowledge, enable new processes and reinforce engagement. They can use virtual dashboards to provide feedback on re