Contents: Foreword. Introduction. I. The Post-Cloud Technology Landscape: 1. From the cloud to the Matrix. 2. There is nothing artificial about machine intelligence. II. The Digital Transformation Journey: 3. The myths and realities of industry disruption. 4. Becoming a platform organization. 5. Building your firm from the outside in Seeing technology’s risks. 6. Digital leadership is a team sport. 7. The future of Enterprise IT. 8. Digital as a career requirement. III. Global Strategies and Competition: 9. Leveraging the technology lifecycle. 10. The US, China, and a bipolar global IT industry. Conclusion. Speaking digital – a lexicon for the 2020s. Index. The Post-Cloud era has already begun. A powerful wave of new technologies—machine learning, smart products, software agents, wearables, blockchains, speech/facial recognition, robotics, augmented realities, algorithms, and 5G wireless bandwidth—is creating a digital world that is pervasive, embedded, aware, and autonomous. Seeing Digital uses a unique visual format to illustrate how these exciting innovations will transform the industries, organizations, and careers of the 2020s. Insight-packed chapters assess the myths and realities of industry disruption, the necessity of machine intelligence, the importance of platform business models, and the challenges of digital transformation, leadership, and risk. This wide-ranging book also forecasts the coming battle between Silicon Valley and China, how innovation is shifting to the Human Platform, the future of the Enterprise IT function, and technology’s overall impact on jobs, skills, and society. With its easy to read, picture-per-page design, Seeing Digital will help you literally see our technology driven future