a changemaker’s guide to the exponential revolution.
About the book
Every day, legacy business models and traditional best practices are transforming around us, driven by technologies like AI, blockchain, 5G, and quantum computing that are radically altering our future vision. As a leader and innovator, you’re facing an accelerating pace of change that makes it more difficult than ever to navigate the murky future ahead. You need to cut through the noise and hype, but without a playbook to guide you, it’s difficult to know where to start.
In Future Ready, Nick Davis shares the actual frameworks Singularity University uses with clients, along with case studies detailing how those enterprises have applied these strategies to leap ahead and stay there. More than half of the Fortune 500 have chosen Singularity University to develop their future vision and strategies. SU has developed a full range of tools, programs, and methodologies to help leaders and decision-makers build future-ready organizations. With this book, you will learn how to create your organization’s future exponential vision and strategy, develop the leaders of tomorrow, and build future customer value using cutting-edge technologies.
about the author
NICK DAVIS is a Managing Partner at Reach the Future Faster, Inc. and the prior VP of Enterprise Solutions and current Faculty Chair for Corporate Innovation at Singularity University. Nick is a recognized thought leader in the innovation space who specializes in identifying exponential trends that enable enterprise organizations to deliver customer value through new and existing technology platforms. Nick is also a Venture Partner at Bold Capital, which invests in high-growth startups that leverage exponential technologies. He’s previously served as External Innovation Leader for PwC and the Director of Corporate Development for The Anderson School of Management at UCLA.
Special thanks to my Future Ready book partner-in-crime Charles Warnock for his creativity and writing, editing, and research contributions. Charles is a Growth Marketer, Content Strategist, Author, and Tech Journalist.
Contact charles here: https://contentmarketingfactory.com/
TESTIMONIALS
“The pace of exponential change will create both tremendous disruptions and opportunities. In Future Ready, Nick Davis offers changemakers examples and frameworks on surviving and thriving in the decade ahead.”
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD, Executive Founder, Singularity University; NY Times Best Selling author ofAbundance, BOLD, and The Future is Faster Than You Think.
“It’s easy for even the most savvy executive to get lost in a world where all the rules of business and strategy seem to have been rewritten while we were all sleeping. For those who want to learn the secrets of those disrupting business today, this book can be a powerful almanac. It’s an even better resource, however, for leaders who want to go beyond the printed page and develop a deeply intuitive feel for the contours of the future and to thrive, whatever it brings.”
— will thompson, managing director of thought leadership at forbes
"Here is a book for the changemakers in the world— those who aren’t merely interested in what’s ahead, but who step forward and help to create a better future for all."
— Kelly bean, Professor of Practice, Senior Associate Dean, Charles F, Knight Distinguished Director of Executive Education @ Olin business school at washington university
“From my perspective, most of the business practices, models, and frameworks used by legendary companies of the past will lead to failure in today’s rapidly evolving business world. Future business is all about originality, pervasiveness, capacity, durability, dimensionality, intelligent machines, swarms, privacy, security, trust, ethics, tons of new standards, and finding new ways to transform our own human experience. Through the magic of our continually improving digital networks, we will be adding formidable computing muscle at technology’s edge, turbo-boosting the capability of every IoT sensor, blockchain transaction, payment device, and interactive dashboard. Nick Davis’ book will provide you with a next-generation set of models and frameworks to develop entire new strategies for working in this type of future environment.”
— Thomas frey, Certified Speaking Pro, Sr Futurist DaVinci Institute, Editor FuturistSpeaker.com, & Innovations Editor THE FUTURIST
Latest Articles
Future Journeys: Lessons in Bold Innovation From Apollo 13
We have been exploring the unique challenges that large organizations face on their transformation journeys for some time now on the SU Blog. The size and complexity of large organizations can be both a blessing and a curse. Established organizations often have deep pockets and considerable domain expertise to support their transformation initiatives.
Looking Ahead: Using Data to See the Future Faster
A common thread within the SU ecosystem is our shared love of data. Our community of innovators and inspired solvers includes smart, passionate, and action-oriented people who apply exponential technologies to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. But the idea of freely sharing knowledge and insights with your community and around the world is more challenging than it might seem. Future planning and addressing challenges at a global scale requires working with massive amounts of data.
Future-Ready Checklist: Seven Habits of Highly Exponential Enterprises
Building on a foundation of systems also can help organizations reinvent themselves for a faster-moving future. How will your current systems for finance, customer success, sales, and product development need to evolve to meet future goals? If you’re watching how quickly high-impact exponential technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and blockchain are remaking every industry, you realize that all current processes should be reimagined now, before they become obsolete—if they haven’t been already.
Services
speaking
Book Nick as a speaker at your next conference, event, or workshop. Sessions include keynotes covering the key concepts covered in Future Ready or half-day and full-day interactive workshops.
advising
Leverage the models and frameworks from the book to develop your future strategy and capabilities.
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