Adapting to Change: The Impact of Youth and Technology on the Global Enterprise
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Adapting to Change:The Impact of Youth and Technology on the Global
Enterprise
Sheraan’s Desk
EMAIL & IM
BLOGS
WIKIS
SOCIAL NETWORKS
Isn’t that obvious?
GMail – Web 2.0’s first killer app?(source: gmail.com)
Blogging – read or write life(source: tylerreed.co.za)
Wiki – many authors, one site(source: engineering.wikia.com)
Facebook– SA’s #1 social network(source: facebook.com)
“The United Nations defines ‘youth’, as those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years”
(source: www.un.org/youth)
250,000 joining per dayOver 100 million users
(source: CNET News)
1/3(source: The Guardian)
of time online spent on social
networks
NOT JUST GEEKS!
(source: Chartered Management Institute & Ordnance)
(sources: answers.com, google.com, wikipedia.com
(we’re used to information
abundance and attention scarcity)
“This generation thinks differently, behaves differently and is already starting to demand, aggressively, big changes in the way society, business and
individuals interact. Is your workplace prepared for the changes?”
– CIO Insight Magazine
WEB 2.0 OFFICE BAN?
(source:. Telindus)
“Toughest generation to manage.”
(source: Atlantic Associates)
“Social networking penetration with teens
close to 100%.”
– Ad Age 2007
Bob Kahn (Co-founder, The Internet) Me (Lucky
Techie)
SA isn’t alone. Orkut (Brazil’s top social network) is banned at work, too.
(source: Le Monde)
CULTUREYOUTH ARE GROWING UP
IT department worried?
(source: pbwiki.com)
Work from anywhere. (And stop flying so much)
(source: KPMG Economist Intelligence)
SHIFT!TECHNOLOGY
PEOPLE
“It is not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most adaptable
to change.”
- Charles Darwin
Technology Evangelist
(images licensed from www.istockphoto.com)