Digital transformation is happening fast, and business can fall for a short-term, technology-driven only implementation. While acknowledging that a strategy is the key element in your digital transformation, here you have some data and examples of 5 technologies to watch.

In the current state of uncertainty, when traditional strategic methodologies fall short to help us tackle disruption, what are the creative disciplines that can contribute to the business toolkit?

Quantitative strategic methodologies are inadequate alone when it comes to tackling the uncertainty of disruption, because, by nature, uncertainty does not allow for measurement. On the contrary, trend analysis has been increasingly winning a space in current business strategy as a methodology to provide qualitative insights that help identify new horizons and changing values.

In a world in which everything is subject to sudden change, it is difficult for companies to stay relevant, and the quest to find and exploit value has become more challenging than ever.

Today’s rapidly changing world means the traditional strategic plan is no longer viable. But several years into the cult of lean, it is becoming clear that it is not the panacea that corporates had hoped for. 

How can we bridge the strategic capabilities of traditional visions and lean models to get the best of both worlds?

If you are a tech-geek as I am, you might have heard about the hype that went on last week around a tiny helicopter, one of these toy-like machines almost all of us had the chance to remote control when we were children. But it was something special about this particular one. You wouldn't have to push any buttons to make it go up, or crazily manipulate a joystick to make it turn. With this helicopter, you just had to think about it going up for the thing to actually start flying, and to think about it going right to make it turn. It was mind-controlled by a student of the University of Minnesota, who only had to sat on a chair wearing a funny looking hat to make it go high (and go viral).

It has been already two weeks since the Design Management Institute´s conference wrapped up in Madrid, and some of you were able to follow the key thoughts discussed there through the twitter hashtag #dmimadrid. Nevertheless, I always find useful to structure my thoughts on a piece of paper (or pixels, in this case) and share them for further discussion with the 93% of the world not using Twitter.