New Book, “Seeing Digital,” from Leading Edge Forum Envisions the Shape and Opportunities of Technology in the Post-Cloud Era

The digital ecosystem of the post-cloud era is explored in a book just published by the Leading Edge Forum (LEF). Seeing Digital — a Visual Guide to the Industries, Organizations & Careers of the 2020s focuses on today’s new, digital technologies that are increasingly intelligent, aware, autonomous and self-healing.

The LEF is a global research and thought leadership organization dedicated to helping clients reimagine their organizations and leadership for a tech-driven future. It is a subsidiary of DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC).

Authored by LEF Research Fellow, David Moschella, Seeing Digital uses simple illustrations and jargon-free language to show how today’s ever-more powerful digital capabilities will reshape the way businesses innovate, operate, and compete -- and what this ongoing transformation will mean to both organizational leadership and individual careers.

“Seeing Digital is designed to serve as a GPS guide to the opportunities and challenges of the 2020s,” Moschella commented. “What we call the post-cloud era has already begun, as a powerful new wave of technology – including machine learning, smart products, software agents, wearables, blockchains, speech/facial recognition, robotics, augmented realities, algorithms, and 5G wireless bandwidth – gains momentum. Like the great technology waves of the past, this important phase of innovation will generate exciting new marketplaces, but also significant industry restructuring.”

The book forecasts the wide-ranging impact of these technologies through insight-packed chapters that assess the myths and realities of industry disruption; the necessity of machine intelligence; the importance of platform business models; the nature of the outside-in organization; the challenges of digital transformation, leadership and risk; the future of the IT organization; the coming focus on the Human Platform; and the outlook for today’s increasingly high-stakes global technology competition.

These dynamics will result in an ongoing “triple transformation” -- of industries, organizations, and careers -- that will challenge today’s entire business and technology ecosystem. In guiding readers through these developments, the book addresses questions such as:

• How do CEOs and traditional firms know if they are getting digital right?
• Can Silicon Valley pull off its dual disruption agenda?
• What does it mean to be a platform organization?
• What is the future of Enterprise IT and the IT professional?
• How will individual jobs, skills and careers evolve?
• Will China become the technology leader of the 21st century?
• What do these changes mean for governments, and society overall?

Includes foreword by DXC’s Mike Lawrie