Strategy in the Introduction

Digital had already established itself as a primary Strategy needs to move at the speed of digital driver of winners and losers across industries, for an organization to survive and thrive. The and the COVID-19 crisis has only accelerated the firms that will be successful will adopt a new urgency with which organizations need to evolve strategy playbook that adapts to ongoing their strategies and models. As Satya complexity and speed, looking well beyond the Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has declared: “We’ve short-term planning horizon. They will understand seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in technology beyond the purely executional and two months.” reframe it as a primary driver of both business strategy and . In a context of massive disruption and exponential change, incremental approaches Now is the time for leaders and organizations are not fit for purpose. New foundations have to recalibrate portfolios, revisit strategy and emerged that will underpin competition for redeploy their financial and talent resources to the next generation. Post-crisis, the winners survive and thrive. will be led by leaders who have reinvented their strategies and thinking to adapt to these new foundations and developed new strategic capabilities in their organizations.

As President of Forrester Research George Colony wrote, “The world is going even more digital because of this crisis, and old industrial era thinking needs to be abandoned once and for all.” About the Masterclass

The Strategy in a Digital Revolution Masterclass is a modular series of live virtual sessions tailored to your organization’s needs. The series is an end-to-end learning experience that spans from concept understanding, to application in the workplace, to evolution. There are opportunities for the executive learner to engage, explore and experiment with the content through curated resources designed to maximize the webinar series experience, explore emerging examples through case studies and company-specific discussions and applications, and consider implications for their own business model.

SERIES OBJECTIVES • Enhance their entrepreneurial and • Apply the tools of the New Strategy digital mindset and approach Playbook to drive the creation of new strategic capabilities in their • Understand how strategy, innovation organization and digital have changed because of the digital revolution • Practice critical behaviors which support growth, innovation and digital transformation

Each virtual session in this series is interactive and includes leading-edge research to help organizations develop new strategic capabilities at the intersection of strategy, growth, innovation, and digital to address changing customer and competitive contexts, to challenge and enhance current thinking, and to drive new working practices. Each event is approximately 90 minutes in duration.

Virtual Session 1 Strategy in the Digital Revolution

Virtual Session 2 The New Strategy Playbook

Virtual Session 3 Technology Evolution: From Foundations to , 5G, IoT and AI

Virtual Session 4 Strategic Options Portfolios in the Digital Revolution

Virtual Session 5 Digital Risk Scenarios

Virtual Session 6 Developing a Digital Transformation Roadmap

Virtual Session 7 The Future of (Remote) Work Ryan McManus is founder and He is the author of numerous CEO of Techtonic, a company articles on digital transformation focused on helping leaders and and corporate strategy and has organizations to develop new served as an advisor to Fortune strategic capabilities to think 500 companies, technology differently and thrive in a world startups and non-profits. Ryan is a of unprecedented uncertainty and member of the Board of Directors opportunity through advisory, of Nortech Systems, the advisory executive development and SaaS board of CarLabs AI and previously offerings. served on two advisory boards with the Aspen Institute. Ryan guides organizations through digital transformation to become He is a sought-after advisor, digital and data leaders and speaker and teacher on digital generate business results. He has transformation and growth over 20 years of leadership and strategy writ large, including effective execution experience delivering executive education across digital transformation, programs for Duke Corporate corporate strategy, global Education, Columbia University operations, startups and corporate Business School, London Business boards. Most recently as the School, the University of Chicago President and SVP of Partnerships Booth School of Business, the and Corporate Development for National Association of Corporate EVRYTHNG, the world’s leading Directors and the G100. Ryan IoT Smart Products platform earned his MBA from the University company, Ryan built the world’s of Chicago Booth School of leading smart product ecosystem, Business, has worked in over 40 enabling the of countries and is fluent in English trillions of physical products. and French. Ryan McManus Prior to EVRYTHNG, he founded ’s Digital Transformation Founder and CEO of Techtonic practice and served as the Accenture Strategy COO and leader of the firm’s Corporate Strategy and International Expansion practices. Contact Us

“We can no longer think about strategy without innovation and we can no longer think about innovation without digital. In leading organizations, these are becoming one and the same.”

- Ryan McManus

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