Digital Humans: Thriving in an Online World

Digital Humans: Thriving in an Online World

by Garrick Jones, Paul Ashcroft
Released July 2022
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781119879725

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Book description

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.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. About This Book
  7. Introduction
    1. Our Digital Civilization
    2. Digital Humans
    3. Digital Organizations
    4. Why Did We Write this Book?
    5. References
  8. Part One: Living in Our Online World
    1. Our Brave New Digital World
      1. Rise and Fall of a Civilization
      2. The Shift to Digital
      3. A Brief Digital History
      4. Impact on Individuals
      5. Impact on Organizations
      6. Digital Challenges
      7. A New Way to Deal with Change
      8. References
    2. Living in a Changing World
      1. Trend 1 The Merger of the Physical and Digital
      2. Trend 2 The Merger of the Physical, Digital, and Biological
      3. Trend 3 The Rise of the Robots
      4. Trend 4 Algorithms
      5. Trend 5 Modularization
      6. Trend 6 Micro-production
      7. Trend 7 Hyper-local
      8. Trend 8 Neuroscience and Behaviour Economics
      9. Trend 9 Digital Media
      10. Trend 10 Play Spaces
      11. Trend 11 Community Lives
      12. Trend 12 Global Design
      13. Trend 13 Local Fabrication
      14. Trend 14 Swarming
      15. Trend 15 Companion Tools
      16. Trend 16 Lifelong Learning
      17. Trend 17 Universal Basic Income
      18. Trend 18 Experiential Learning
      19. Trend 19 The Metaverse
      20. Trend 20 Blockchain
      21. Trend 21 Apps and Heuristics
      22. Trend 22 New Environments for Learning
      23. Trend 23 Radical Personalization
      24. What does this all mean?
      25. References
    3. The Activated Organization
      1. Digital Winners
      2. Of Ants and Termites
      3. It's Alive
      4. Japanese Society – Old and New
      5. Complex Evolving Systems
      6. Learning from Jazz
      7. Harnessing Complexity
      8. The Activated Organization
      9. New Ways of Thinking That Are at the Heart of the Digital Human and Our Organizations
      10. References
  9. Part Two: New Thinking for Digital Humans and Their Organizations
    1. 1 The Digital Spine
      1. The Power of the Book
      2. The Organization of Knowledge
      3. Connected to Everything, Everywhere
      4. Enter the Labyrinth
      5. Why Is the Idea of the Digital Spine Relevant?
      6. The Digital Spine Enables Better Decision Making
      7. Decision Making Online
      8. The Trust Equation
      9. The Digital Spine
      10. Designing Digital Spines
      11. Conclusion
      12. References
    2. 2 Build Together
      1. The Dream of Collective Construction
      2. The Power of Building Together
      3. We Buy into What We Build
      4. Working Together Without Being Together
      5. Design Thinking
      6. The Problem of Virtual Collaboration
      7. Collaborative Authoring
      8. Thinking Like a Designer to Build Together
      9. Conclusion
      10. References
    3. 3 The Organization of One
      1. Gathering Together
      2. Digital Tribes
      3. How Do We Want to Work?
      4. A New Employment Experience
      5. The Organization of One
      6. How to Prepare for ‘Organizations of One’?
      7. Conclusion
      8. References
    4. 4 Add-app-ability
      1. The Vitruvius Within Us All
      2. Building Blocks Everywhere
      3. Bring Your Everything to Work
      4. A Constant Work in Progress
      5. De-bossing
      6. My Digital Companion
      7. Modal Jazz
      8. An App Mindset
      9. From Small Acorns
      10. Add-app-ability at Scale
      11. Adopting Add-app-ability
      12. Applying Add-app-ability
      13. Conclusion
      14. References
    5. 5 Theatres of Work
      1. The Digital Agora
      2. The Enchanting Port
      3. The Digital Tsunami
      4. The Distributed Manufacturing Environment
      5. So What Are Physical Work Environments For?
      6. Qualities of Enabling Environments
      7. Conclusion
      8. References
    6. 6 Build Beautiful Things
      1. The Pursuit of Excellence
      2. The Best It Can Be
      3. Beauty and the Beast
      4. The Unfinished Masterpiece
      5. But I Can't Even Draw
      6. Building Beautiful Things
      7. Making It Real
      8. Conclusion
      9. References
    7. 7 Playing Games
      1. A Love of Games
      2. It's Just a Game?
      3. Why Do We Play Games?
      4. From Simple Games to the Metaverse
      5. Games at Work
      6. Making Games
      7. Conclusion
      8. References
    8. 8 The Power of Small Things
      1. From a Single Stone
      2. Call Me Trim Tab
      3. Nudge, Nudge
      4. The Digital Leader
      5. Using the Power of Small Things
      6. Sustaining Momentum
      7. Conclusion
      8. References
    9. 9 Targets and the Mirror
      1. The Great Civilizer
      2. Looking Inside
      3. Digital Mirrors
      4. The Right Amount of Connectivity
      5. Making Sense of the Data
      6. Making a Map
      7. Navigating into the Future
      8. Conclusion
      9. References
    10. 10 Always Learning
      1. The House of Wisdom
      2. A Thirst for Knowledge
      3. Providing Digital Learning Fit for Digital Humans
      4. Digital Changes Everything
      5. 100% Results, Zero Air Miles
      6. Designing the Learning for Digital Humans
      7. Conclusion
      8. References
    11. 11 Creating Meaningful Alternatives
      1. The Heretic King
      2. The Golden Age of Athens
      3. A Meaningful Alternative
      4. Motivating Digital Humans
      5. Conclusion
      6. References
    12. 12 Turn It On
      1. The Gates of Paradise
      2. Create a Movement
      3. Designing a Multi-layered Omni-channel Campaign
      4. Conclusion
      5. References
  10. Conclusion: Reflections on New Thinking for Our Brave New Digital World
    1. Reference
  11. Terms of Art
    1. Activate
    2. Automation
    3. Brainstorming
    4. Collaboration
    5. Complex systems
    6. Consultant
    7. Culture
    8. Decision making
    9. Design
    10. Design thinking
    11. Digital
    12. Digital human
    13. Ecosystem
    14. Entrainment
    15. Framework
    16. Human
    17. Identity
    18. Innovation
    19. Internet
    20. Iteration
    21. Jazz
    22. Labyrinth
    23. Leadership
    24. Living system
    25. Ludic (pron. /ˈluːd&ip.iscp;k/)
    26. Mass media
    27. Meeting
    28. Methodology
    29. Model
    30. Network
    31. Omni-channels
    32. Online
    33. Organization
    34. Platform
    35. Principle
    36. Scale
    37. Security
    38. Simple rules
    39. Society
    40. Swarming
    41. Synthesize
    42. System
    43. Technology
    44. Transformation
    45. Tribe
    46. Utopia
    47. Work
    48. Reference
  12. About the Authors
  13. Index
  14. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Digital Humans: Thriving in an Online World
  • Author(s): Garrick Jones, Paul Ashcroft
  • Release date: July 2022
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781119879725