The Fast Future Blur

The future blurs strategy, business models, technology, work, and leadership — are you ready?

Fast Future Blur provides invaluable insights and strategic frameworks to navigate the complexity of our current period of rapid and radical transformation (‘Fast Future’ phase). Focused on the interconnected nature of the evolution underway, the book serves as an eye-opener for business leaders, providing guidance in understanding this dynamic and complex landscape.

Fast Future Blur delves into 12 key areas of change, including platform businesses, regenerative innovation, artificial intelligence, the future of healthcare, the future of work, the future of mobility, blockchain, metaverse, virtual & augmented reality, leadership, agility, fintech, and the impact from 6 inter-connections.

With compelling, powerful, and timely insights from the Fast Future Executive faculty — a global consortium of experts and industry leaders, many of whom are associated with the World Economic Forum, top business and technology schools and leading global companies — Fast Future Blur is an essential resource to prepare for the complexities of the future.

Foreword: Ambiguous, Adroit and Around Corners: The Era of Future Blur Leadership vii
Nitin Rakesh, CEO, Mphasis

Acknowledgements xiii

Chapter 1: The Fast Future Arsenal: Unbundling, Rebundling and Innovating at the Intersections 1
Sangeet Paul Choudary

Chapter 2: Regenerative Innovation: Exploring the Potential of Digital Platforms for Ecosystem Health 15
Jessica Groopman

Chapter 3: Thinking Like an AI Native 73
Hari Abburi and Efi Pylarinou

Chapter 4: Deconstructed and Decentralized Work: At the Interconnection between the Future of Work and Blockchain 109
Ravin Jesuthasan and Alun Evans

Chapter 5: Intelligent Health: The Convergence of Data and AI 133
Vince Kuraitis and Ramanathan Srikumar

Chapter 6: Helping Leaders Design New World People Experiences 173
Rajan Kalia and Cortney Harding

Chapter 7: Designing the Metamobility Future 205
Kristin Slanina and Martha Boeckenfeld

Chapter 8: Conclusion: Living to Love the Fast Future Blurs 245
Efi Pylarinou

Notes 259

Index 287

The Authors

Nitin Rakesh, CEO Mphasis
Sangeet Paul Choudary, Platform Strategy
Dr. Efi Pylarinou, The Future Of Money & Finance
Ravin Jesuthasan, The Future Of Work
Vince Kuraitis, The Future Of Healthcare
Jessica Groopman, Regenerative Enterprises & Innovation
Rajan Kalia, The New World People Leader
Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld, Metaverse
Dr. Alun Evans, Blockchain
Cortney Harding, AR/VR Experiences
Hari Abburi, Agility for Strategy & Organization
Kristin Slanina, The Future of Mobility
Ramanathan Srikumar, AI & The Future of Our World

About the Authors

This book is co-authored by world renowned thought leaders from the United States, Spain, Switzerland, UAE, and India. They are a diverse group of thinkers who bring a multi-industry, multi-geography, and multi-cultural perspectives.

The authors are associated with World Economic Forum events, are instructors at top business and technology schools, include CEOs, Global Transformation Leaders, Chief Technology Solutions Leaders and are Co-Chairs of major conferences.

Their thought leadership includes over 12 published books and over 150 published papers and articles.

The authors are Faculty at The Fast Future Executive.

THE FAST FUTURE EXECUTIVE is a global consortium of thought leaders who curate future-centric executive education through Fast Future Fundamentals and custom executive education for companies worldwide.

Every 100 years, transformative changes that seemed distant and gradual become a mainstream reality.

We call these ‘Fast Future Blurs’ and we are currently experiencing many. These blurs bring transformative changes that are multi-disciplinary and interconnected.

This book focuses on six key interconnections between twelve disciplines shaping the future of our world. We believe these interconnections and frameworks are critical for professionals and leaders.

These six areas are:

• Building regenerative businesses through platform models
• Thinking like an AI Native business
• Transforming Healthcare with data and AI
• The Future of Work that is deconstructed and decentralized
• The Future of Mobility as the new experiences economy
• Designing new world people experiences through AR/ VR

Become A Fast Future Executive

Become ‘a fast future executive’, who has a speed bias to learn, understand, connect and apply; seemingly disparate ideas of the future, today.

This book helps you gain clarity on six interconnections among new business models, advanced technologies and socio-economic trends shaping our future. The frameworks in this book deconstruct and explain the complex future in an easy to ‘learn and apply’ manner.

This book helps develop an ‘interconnected’ mindset as a future-proofing capability critical to you and your business.