Adapting to Change:The Impact of Youth and Technology on the Global

Enterprise

Sheraan’s Desk

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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

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