Mark Rothko, No. 13 [White, Red on Yellow] 1958

Value Studio 37“The Evolved & Evolving IT Leader”

November 5-6, 2014Amelia Island, Florida

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Thornton May in “Modern” China Tiananmen Square Beijing 1977

WelcomeI have been

“evolving”

my understanding of

shared spaces&

shared space design

for > 37 years

I used to think…

Essential Ingredients…

Curiosity

ACKNOWLEDGED IGNORANCE

Value from Knowing

>20% of Global 2000 C-Suiters have participated

One could say…

I spent my careerDesigning “shared spaces”

The Managing the Information Resource Program John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA

1988- 2005

Shared Space“Experiments”

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Nolan Norton InstituteMulti-Client Research Working Groups

1988-1992

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Networld Interop “CIO Bootcamp”

2007-2012

https://www.flickr.com/photos/adunne/2450825554/in/photostream/

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Florida State College at Jacksonville“IT Leadership Academy”/Value Studio

2005-2014

Cambridge Technology Partners “Lyceum”

Guardent Discourses

I have learned…

The BEST shared spaces…Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Aeneas at Delos [1672]

Socratic Exchanges…enablea series of…

The Value StudioChannels the Past

Plato’s AcademyRoman mosaic of the 1st century BCE

from Pompeii, now at the Museo Nazionale Archologico, Naples

1896 Tourist Map Showing Aristotle’s Lyceum

All you really need…

is great people

Thank You Speakers

Sponsors

andAttendees

We are going to be thinking & talking about “evolution”

For the next 18 hours…

OpeningExercise

In small groups

When you hear the phrase:

evolutionwhat is the first

Image, Word or Phrase

that leaps to mind?

45 secondexerciseAural Rorschach Test

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What Patterns/Trends [if any]

do you perceive in your responses?

Many Folks…

Charles Darwin [1809-1882]

Conceptually…

From one state to another

Many Folks…

to More Progressive Elements of Society

From Less Progressive Elements of Society

Conceptually… From one way of doing something to another

Credit: Evolution by Giuseppe Milo via Flickr

What do we know about Evolution?

Evolution is Universal

Each of the earths living organisms

is on a journey

from

what it used to be,

heading toward

what it is becoming. 

Some things don’t evolve

To Understand Evolution…

You have to understand

the environment…

3 Minuteexercise

How would you describe

“the environment”

facing

“evolving”

IT leaders today?

Level Set

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What Patterns/Trends [if any]

do you perceive in your responses?

HMS Beagle, by P.G. King

Darwin tells us...

Environment drives evolution...

What happens if you live in

more than one environment?

Environment drives evolution...

What happens if you live in more than one environment?

“three million years ago a group of primates

known as the australopithecines

was walking capably on two legs –

the better to navigate

the African savanna –

and yet still had long arms

suited to life in the trees.”

3.3-million-year-old fossil – “Lucy’s baby”.

Lower body designed for

walking on the ground

while its upper body contains

a number of primitive traits better suited to an arboreal existence, such

as long, curved fingers for grasping tree branches.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/photogalleries/afarensisancestors/photo2.html

Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Daniel in the Lions' Den

c. 1614/1616 Painting

Is “Baby Lucy” a metaphor for the CIO or what?

Part of the CIO has to be attentive to the needs of

the present while part of the focus has

to be on the future. Part tactical & part strategic.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll

and Mr. Hyde” is an oblique and artful Gothic tale

framed as a detective story.

Jekyll — the gentleman who dabbles in

chemical self- transformation —

Walter Kirn, “The Dark Side”, New York Times [1 June 2014].

In the face of conflicting or ambiguous “evolutionary” signals,

do IT Leaders become “monsters”?

The novel isn’t a conventional horror story, but an allegory of the divided self…

Stevenson dramatizes human duality

Walter Kirn, “The Dark Side”, New York Times [1 June 2014].Fredric March in the 1931 film “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

Credit Bettmann/Corbis

For him, the Jekyll-Hyde split is the split in all of us, between the animals

we evolved from

and the angels

we aspire to be.

How do you Juggle…

KTLO requirementswith

Need to Anticipate the Future?

3 Minuteexercise

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What Patterns/Trends [if any]

do you perceive in your responses?

How do you evolve…

If the environment you are trying to adapt to

doesn’t exist yet?