Harnessing Digital Disruption in the Era of the On Demand Economy.

1. Cloud
Transformation
Harnessing Digital Disruption
in the era of the IoT On
Demand Economy
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2. The On Demand
Economy
The Economist describes ‘Workers on Tap’
where workers are employed on a utility basis.
The ‘Future of Work’ - Freelancers organized
via dynamic e-marketplaces
Workers on Tap
Massive new startups like Uber taxis,
Airbnb and many more are pioneering
the ‘On Demand Economy’
An On Demand Business Framework
overlays a ‘digital mesh’ across available
resources,

3. Digital Disruptors
The Era of the Virtual Enterprise
● CIOs that embrace Digital to pioneer
disruptive business models
● Entirely virtual business models
● Ocado operates entirely on Google
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“Ocado doesn’t operate out of physical stores.
Instead, our customers place their orders online
via our webshop and mobile applications. These
orders are then picked and packed in huge
automated Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs),
the largest of their kind in the world.”
“Technology is at the core of almost everything Ocado does. We consider ourselves a technology
company that also does retail. Our culture and make-up is much closer to that of Google than it is a
bricks and mortar retailer. “

4. Michael Porter, author of the most highly regarded business
strategies ‘Competitive Advantage’ describes three distinct
eras of how technology can impact and improve this
advantage:
1. The start of enterprise IT: 60’s - 90’s
2. The Internet: 90’s - 00’s
3. The Internet of Things: 10’s+
IoT Smart Products - The
Third Era of Competitive
Advantage
IoT Product Systems - Harnessing Big Data
Cloud Computing
Michael describes how products will evolve to
become ‘product systems’, an integrated
ecosystem of partners and IT systems that
intelligently monitor and optimize the performance
of the product, using Cloud-based big data
analytics processing sensor data.

5. DevOps and microservices
These trends drive the need for
faster software development and
deployment, aka ‘DevOps’.
In ‘Nike’s Journey to Microservices’, they
explain how they are adopting new
software models like ‘microservices’ to
break up monolithic applications into lots of
smaller pieces.
As part of a move to ‘Continuous Delivery’ this increases the number of innovation projects
they can work on, while reducing the lines of code.
Software best practices for digital disruptors

6. Government as a Platform
Francis Maude describes
the UK’s plans to move
towards ‘Government as
a Platform
Estonia X-Road
● National Identity card with chip at 15
● Each card uses a unique ID number
● Identity-centric data sharing
● Link between policy and digital architecture
- Law passed to restrict agencies to ask
only once for information
Lithuania SIRIP
● State Information Resource
Interoperability Platform
● Digital e-services platform
architecture
● Plug and play approach for
creating new apps
● Common identity sign-on
service
● Common payments and
digital signatures
Integration-platform-as-a-service offerings support a
new, cloud-based approach to address the perennial
data and application integration challenge.
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