Hear Best Selling Author Steve Brown Talk About His New Book "The Innovation Ultimatum"
Date: July 7, 2020
Time: Noon Eastern Standard Time
Platform: Zoom
Cost: Free
Link for Tickets: Steve Brown
About the Book
Prepares leaders for the 2020s―an accessible guide to the key technologies that will reshape business in the coming decade Most businesses identify six key digital technologies―artificial intelligence, distributed ledgers and blockchain, the Internet of Things, autonomous machines, virtual and augmented reality, and 5G communication―as critical to their relevance and growth over the coming ten years.
These new disruptive technologies present significant opportunity for businesses in every industry. The first businesses to understand automation and these transformative technologies will be the ones to reap the greatest rewards in the marketplace. The Innovation Ultimatum helps leaders understand the key technologies poised to reshape business in the next decade and prepare their organizations for technology-enabled change. Using straightforward, jargon-free language, this important resource provides a set of strategic questions every leader will need to ask and answer in order to prepare for the impending changes to the business landscape.
Author Steve Brown shares his insights to help leaders take full advantage of the next wave of digital transformation and describes compelling examples of how businesses are already embracing new technologies to optimize operations, create new value, and serve customers in new ways. Written for anyone that wants to understand how automation and new technology will fundamentally restructure business, this book enables readers to: Understand the implications of technology-driven change across industrial sectors Apply important insights to their own business Gain competitive advantage by implementing new technologies Prepare for the future of work and understand the skills needed to thrive in a post-automation economy Adopt critical digital technologies in any organization Providing invaluable cutting-edge content.
About the Author
Steve Brown was born in the UK, where he lived until he was 30, spending time near Nottingham, Oxford, and in Manchester, where he went to university. In 1997, he moved to the states, and he became a US citizen in 2008. He has one younger sister, and his parents are still together (and living in self-isolation!) after 54 years of marriage.
His dad started his career as a physics professor and dedicated his life to higher education. In 2008, his dad was awarded a C.B.E. (Commander of the British Empire) at Buckingham Palace in 2008 in recognition of his lifetime service to education. Back in the ’70s, when Steve was a kid, computers were a rarity. His dad, a university physics professor at the time, would bring computers home from work, and Steve quickly became fascinated with them. Even at a young age, he could imagine their future potential, and he decided to focus his career on the computing industry.
Steve earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Microelectronics System Engineering from the University of Manchester and embarked on a 30-year career with Intel Corporation. His eclectic Intel career spanned everything from engineering and manufacturing to marketing, communications, and management. His career goal was to develop as broad a set of skills as possible by taking on a wide range of roles.
Most of the jobs he took were forward-looking, and he spent half of his career in strategic planning roles of one kind or another. Steve rose to become Intel’s chief evangelist and one of Intel’s two futurists, responsible for helping to build Intel’s long-range strategic plans.
Now, as an independent futurist, Steve advises organizations around the world on how technology will reshape their businesses in the coming years. He works with a range of industries but specializes in the future of healthcare and manufacturing.
Inspired by his father’s career, Steve works with the business and education sectors to help them prepare for the future of work, a world of high automation and worker augmentation. Steve helps business leaders to understand the business value of key technologies like artificial intelligence, sensors, augmented reality, robotics, blockchain, 5G, and other new tech.
One of Steve’s proudest legacies is his best-selling book, The Innovation Ultimatum: How six strategic technologies will reshape every business in the 2020s, which he hopes will inspire businesses to innovate their way out of the current recession. Steve joins us today from Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife, Kristin. No kidlets. No dogs. No cats. No responsibility,
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