New Book, “Seeing Digital,” from Leading Edge Forum Envisions the Shape and Opportunities of Technology in the Post-Cloud Era - Seite 2

In the book’s foreword, DXC Technology chairman, president and CEO Mike Lawrie observes that business and government leaders throughout the world have one need in common: “they want to better understand the digital future.” Lawrie argues that “science, knowledge, and technology are now being systematically brought to bear on just about every human activity, creating entirely new industries and careers, destined to be led by a new generation of tech-savvy and globally minded individuals.” Lawrie adds that in coping with these challenges, “the ideas, insights, and frameworks in this book have sharpened our thinking and focus. I believe they can do the same for you.”

Based on cutting edge research

As DXC’s thought leadership arm, the Leading Edge Forum has anticipated major information technology developments, including consumerization, cloud computing, and the overall pattern of disruptive innovation. Its research and reports have raised the awareness of digital trends and technologies and helped large businesses and government agencies re-imagine themselves for the 21st century. But until now, this cutting-edge thinking has only been available to LEF clients. Seeing Digital makes the highlights of this important research publicly available for the first time.

Unique visual format

The book is called Seeing Digital because of its unique visual format, with every page presenting a compelling concept, framework, checklist, assessment, or other graphical image, optimized for today’s full-color, tablet devices. The Leading Edge Forum has used this approach for many years, and has seen how it can convey ideas, concepts, and decision-making models more quickly and powerfully than the written word alone. The extensive use of illustrations is particularly well-suited for those for whom English is a second language.

Early Reviews for Seeing Digital

“Seeing Digital is an exceptionally well-done piece of work. It combines both an in-depth macro-economic analysis of the impact of the digital age, with all of its micro implementation challenges, while containing a number of useful frameworks to help parse the future. Not a comfortable read, but a very important one.”
-- Professor F. Warren McFarlan, Harvard Business School

“A ‘WOW’ book! If you have been looking for a way to think about the Digital Revolution from an organizational, leadership and even an individual perspective -- this is your book. It is based on leading-edge field research and uniquely offers both compelling thought leadership and a practical “how to” approach, aided by diagnostics and visual models. Big changes, big challenges and big opportunities clearly stated in a captivating way. A wonderful book that I read through in a single day.”