Mike Walsh
Global authority on building businesses for the 21st century
Mike Walsh helps businesses prepare for what’s next. Mike is the best selling author of Futuretainment and CEO of innovation research lab Tomorrow, and a global authority on building businesses for the 21st century. Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike takes an anthropological approach – scanning the near horizon for emerging technologies and disruptive shifts in human behavior and then translating these into pragmatic plans for business transformation. A global nomad constantly traveling the world for the best ideas – Mike distills the most relevant insights into tailored keynotes that allow any audience to not only understand but also start to influence the future direction of their industry.
Designing Your Business for the 21st Century
The companies that thrive in the near future will be the ones that not only embrace change but are the first to break the rules. If you could start with a clean sheet of paper, how would you design your company? Should your youngest staff member be making coffee or running your R&D team? Is Big Data something for your IT department to worry about, or a weapon to be wielded by your management team? Do you ban social networks or use them to collaborate more effectively?
Most companies are simply not designed to survive. They become successful on the basis of one big idea or breakthrough product. That early success then becomes a rigid code, and as customer habits and markets change, many fail to see that everything that made them successful is exactly what will destroy them later.
Based on interviews with you and your choices on the 7 strategic priorities, Mike will cover a range of thought-provoking issues including:
- How your future customers will think, talk and transact.
- Lessons on disruptive innovation from fast-growing, emerging markets.
- How to leverage enterprise social networks to solve real business problems.
- What it takes to recruit, retain and motivate tomorrow’s employees.
- How to apply speed, agility and the new lean IT mindset to your technology teams.
- Hacking your corporate culture to transform employee engagement.
- Why the multicultural web of tomorrow will be different from the one we use today.
- Identifying the critical data pivots in your business, the real-time numbers no leader can afford to ignore.
Mike’s talk, “Designing Your Business for the 21st Century”, will be tailored around your choices of the 7 strategic priorities outlined below.
The Seven Strategic Priorities for 21st Century Business Design
Smart leaders realize that the future of their company depends on business design decisions that must be made today. In his ongoing research on the world’s most innovative companies, Mike has categorized those decisions into seven strategic priorities.
When you engage Mike as your keynote speaker, he will work with you to select the strategic priorities most relevant to your future roadmap. Then, during his research phase, he will conduct in-depth interviews with your team, clients or top performers in your industry in order to identify specific case studies that will resonate with your audience.
The seven strategic priorities are as follows:
- People – engaging the next generation of customers and co-workers.
- Marketing – figuring out the new marketing model.
- Culture – understanding ‘Network Capital’ and today’s employee engagement crisis.
- Technology – re-imagining the role of IT in the enterprise.
- Innovation – exploring new frameworks for disruptive thinking.
- Global – building your business to world scale.
- Leadership – becoming a data-driven leader.
