1. Future Ready : Get there Early IEEC 2017

2. Why engage with the future in the present?

3. Mary Smith : Spittalfields London
Business passed down through the generations

4. Today…..!
In two years it has got bigger – the next generation of phones

5. Shorter evolution periods within a generation…..
Choose your own nighttime or daytime – not an age thing

6. What timescale do we attach the passing of a generation…..?
One generation’s impossible is the next generation’s normal ( Samsung)

7. Microsoft News : Future Proofing You
Space Junk Architect
Memory Storage Specialist
Rewilding Strategist
Virtual Habitat Designer
Ethical Technical Advocate
Could be difference of several years. Eyeem

8. How do you feel about the pace of change?
Is technology bringing us closer together or pushing us further apart?
Pace of change redefining generations – what do we feel about this

9. A new co-worker of health worker…?

10. Meet Sofia …..

11. Business as usual…….! Blockbuster : lost out to Netflix.
Kodak : lost out to Digital Photography.
Nokia : failed to spot how people were engaging
with mobile technology.

12. Agile? Google - giving broadband away
Microsoft – embracing the hackers
Amazon – bucking the trend for online retail
BrewDog – giving away their Intellectual Property

13. Future Jobs : Future Prosperity
We need to anticipate the future changes which automation and artificial intelligence require from our education system.
Scotland must find a way to support its start –ups and scale up its small and medium enterprises to tackle the productivity gap. The public sector must embrace innovation, and build on the great examples of people using new tools to meet the challenges of today
Future Jobs : Future Prosperity

14. Developing a ‘futurati’ mindset
‘No one can predict the future but you can think about it systematically and turn uncertainty into inspiration, creativity and resilience’ Bob Johansen : Get there Early

15. Working towards a preferred future
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims
R. Buckminster Fuller

16. Framework or foundation for this workshop
The ‘Future of Mobile Technology’
Timeline is years ( be provocative)
But…. we will come back to the present.

17. Future Ready – Working towards a preferred future
Vision Clarity
Understanding
Agility
Calibration
Foresight
Insight
Action
Gathering evidence or signals in the present
Preparing your mind
Getting there early
Sensing the future
Blending scenario planning with design thinking
Opportunities & risks

18. Big shifts : Mobile technology
Get examples – work at the tail end of this arrow to identify the next shift and be the one to move it

19. Internet of People

20. Toolkit: Designing an artefact or service of the future
Insight
Toolkit: Designing an artefact or service of the future
Making these human experiences tangible in the present.
This is how the future looks and feels and I can engage with it now.
Designing new products or services that get there first or developing skills that keep me future proof.

21. Toolkit : Designing Artefacts of the Future
Randomly select two signals . From maximum impact take two that at first glance seem unrelated.
Drill deep into the ‘so what’ of each signal. Is there a core technology or a core user .
What is the big shift or direction of change?
Imagine encountering all three in a single surprising future experience. What is the innovation space or the innovations we will see.?
Repeat for different signals

22. My three encounters
Signals – vibrating yoga pants, virtual reality Big Shift – technology doing things better than humans Innovation – virtual reality yoga on a beach in Bali ( still in Edinburgh) and with no need for a yoga teacher. My current idea – Yoga school Future proofing - any decisions/inventions needed now

23. Toolkit: Turning our foresight into human experience
Employer– how will these scenarios turn into reality for them? . Immerse yourself in their future world.
What products and services will they be using? Refer to the innovations you created in the previous exercise.
Who and what will they interact with?
What will their market place look like?
What new skills will they be looking for?
What challenges are they facing?
What are their goals and aspirations?

24. Toolkit: Future Personas
Students– how will these scenarios turn into reality for them? Immerse yourself in their future world.
What products and services will they be using? Will they be using your innovation?
Who and what will they interact with?
What new skills will they have or need?
What challenges are they facing and how can you prepare them?
What makes them happy, what are their aspirations?

25. Future Ready – The Process
Vision Clarity
Understanding
Agility
Calibration
Foresight
Insight
Action
Gathering evidence or signals in the present
Preparing your mind
Getting there early
Sensing the future
Opportunities & risks

26. Action – Disrupt/Get there early
Choose a timeline – small monthly steps to start with.
Build an action roadmap.
Stimulus and response – start some conversations in the space.
SIE Signal Diary

27. Take away from today
The future is already here – its just not very evenly distributed Novelist : William Gibson

28. Thank You /scottishinstituteforenterpise / @_sie
Ann Davidson :