Thinque Futurist Blog by Anders Sorman-Nilsson

Digilogue: connecting with digital minds and analogue hearts

Written by anders@thinque.com.au | November 29, 2012

Digilogue: connecting with digital minds and analogue hearts

Change doesn't care if you like it or not. Whether your organisation has a burning platform for change, or times are good and you've become complacent, change doesn't need your permission. Take your eyes off the digital changes that are happening in the world for just a second and change will leave you behind. Yet in our rush to change business models to react to the digitizing world, too many of us focus on the digital bling and forget about the analogue thing. Today, we are hyperlinked, interconnected and linkedin 24/7/365, and in many ways our minds have become decidedly digital. Yet, our hearts are still firmly analogue. How do you as a brand provide value to and connect with both? Here is how...

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Ask yourself

  • Is your organisation being digitally disrupted?
  • Does your future strategy lack clarity and buy-in?
  • Is your analogue business model ready for the digital future?
  • Do you currently balance the timeless wisdom of your organisation with timely and future-compatible strategies and action?
  • Are your teams inspired by your brand's 2020 Vision?
  • Do your leaders and staff suffer from change fatigue?

Anders Sorman-Nilsson (LLB MBA) is the founder of Thinque - a strategy think tank that helps executives and leaders convert these disruptive questions into proactive, future strategies.

As an Australian-Swedish futurist and innovation strategist he has helped executives and leaders on 4 continents map, prepare for, and strategise for foreseeable and unpredictable futures. Since founding Thinque in 2005, he has worked with and spoken to clients like Apple, Johnson & Johnson, Cisco, Eli Lilly, SAP, IBM, Xerox, ABN Amro Bank, Commonwealth Bank, McCann Erickson and BAE Systems, across diverse cultural and geographic contexts.

Anders is an active member of TEDGlobal (Oxford 2009 / Edinburgh 2011), has keynoted at TEDx, guest lectured at Sydney University and University of Technology Sydney Business School, and Anders is on the prestigious 2013 Million Dollar Roundtable roster. He is a member of the University of Sydney Global Executive MBA cohort, and has completed executive education at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

His latest book ‘Thinque Funky: Upgrade Your Thinking' on disruptive 2010-2020 trends featured in Monocle Magazine and the Financial Review Boss Magazine, and his new book ‘Digilogue: the convergence of the digital and the analogue' is due for release in 2013.