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PMINZ Conference 2019

Ross Dawson: The Future of Project Leadership

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The Future of Project Leadership

▪ Futurist

▪ Strategy advisor

▪ Author

@rossdawson

Living in the future

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Now and Zen

Everything a project

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Finite players play within boundaries

Infinite players play with boundaries

- James Carse

Acceleration

Leadership

Structure

Work

Organisations

Expectations

Capabilities

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Acceleration

Consistent exponential growth

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Everyone and everything connected

Image: Mark Pegrum

Acceleration

Vibration

Water levels

Leaks

Acoustic/Ultrasound

Light

Solar intensity

Chemical/Gas

Odour

Pollution

Motion/Velocity/Displacement

Electric

Magnetic

Position

Biological process

Proximity

Flow

Pressure

Force/Strain/Load/Torque

Temperature

Humidity/Moisture

Air pressure

Sensors everywhere

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Beating humans

Machines teach themselves

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Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Always getting better

A voracious appetite for data

Source: EasySolutions

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The next interface beyond smartphones

Using our thoughts to control the world

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Expectations

Weexpectmore

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Excellence

Image: Dennis Yang

Flexibility

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Sustainability

Image: NASA

Accounting for externalities

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Transparency and accountability

Structure

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Brain Internet

Applications

Organisations Industries

Proteins Actors

Society

PoliticsContagion

Networks everywhere

“Ranked by market value, 60 of the world’s 100 largest corporations earn at least half of their revenue from platform markets”

- Prof. Thomas Eisenmann, Harvard Business School

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enablevalue-creating interactions

betweenexternal

producers and consumers,based on an

open infrastructureand

governance structures

Adapted from: Platform Revolution, Parker, van Alstyne and Choudhary

Platforms

The many layers of platforms

Technology standards

City-as-Platform

Company-as-Platform

Platform business models

Government-as-Platform

Social platforms

Technology platforms

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Value is created across ecosystems

Complex emergent patterns

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The M2M economy

Credit: Commonwealth Bank

Emergent behaviours

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Work

Continuous job destruction and creation

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Work can be done anywhere

The rise of virtual organisations

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Automating manual tasks

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Expertise

Creativity

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Image: ^rika^

Relationships

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Bounded Unbounded

Organisations are networks

Innovation across boundaries

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The only way

you can control your destiny

is to be more flexible

than your environment

- The Law of Requisite Variety

In the present, facing the future

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Acceleration

Leadership

Structure

Work

Organisations

Expectations

Capabilities

Project leaders at the heart of the future

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