Do you have a plan for how you are going to adapt and prosper?
Do You Remember The Moments Everything Changed?
Perhaps you feel like you do. Certainly, there are moments that are hard to predict when the natural world does something extreme. But something much deeper is happening: often these notable moments are the societal consequences of technological progress.
Technological progress is happening all the time: 8 billion people means 8 billion innovators, after all. Occasionally, technological progress reaches a major threshold of utility, and then a cascade of effects occurs that ripple out over time. Most often its effects are much more incremental.
To understand change means to understand the implications of technological progress – which requires you to recognise the pace of technological progress, key thresholds and the nature of technologies themselves.
And so much change is happening! Massive demographic changes, environmental uncertainty, economic instability, and political conditions are now speeding up new technology adoption at an extraordinary rate. This was last seen before the Industrial Revolution.
Now the most accelerated change, and one of the key drivers of all the other changes, is in digital technologies, with the cost of computing capabilities collapsing at a faster-than-exponential rate.
We are suddenly in the era of digital-first – an era of hyper-novelty – that requires a new type of decision-making skill. We call it Digital Acumen, and it is based on a process we developed called Technosocial Sensemaking.
Developing Digital Acumen
Developing Digital Acumen is about empowering your relationship with technology.
The 4 key questions it addresses:
Digital Acumen is a leadership development program that focuses on your relationship with technology and technological progress, and improving how you understand and reason about technologies and their impacts. It addresses four key questions:
Question I: What technology?
What technology is practical to implement now to improve efficiency or solve problems I have?
Question II: What captures value?
What is possible with leading-edge technology to capture value in a new venture, or with a new approach for your existing business?
Question III: What impacts?
How will advancements in technology impact you, and how should you respond, on both a business and personal level?
Question IV: How to lead?
What do you need to know to commission and lead initiatives to get the best out of advancing technologies?
Play the video to find out more.
Who Is Behind Digital Acumen?
These are some of the organisations that that we’ve worked with who have inspired and informed the development of Digital Acumen.

Mark Woodman is an award-winning educator and innovator, who has published over 100 articles, books, reports, and guides on such topics as programming, software tools, systems development, business-IT alignment, and quality management. With a bachelors degree in computer science and PhD in software engineering, he is an Emeritus (full) Professor of IT with over four decades in academia and consulting to international clients in the private and public sectors. He chaired the ISO working group which produced the international standard for Modula-2 and has served on many advisory committees. Mark has innovated with systems development research and practice to educate over 100,000 students and lead a team to win a BCS IT award.

Philip Greenwood is a technology strategist with extensive experience in the specification, implementation, and management of IT projects. He is also an expert in deep learning and blockchain systems. With a bachelors degree in engineering and a postgraduate diploma in design, manufacture and management, he has worked for major clients on complex problems in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the US, conceiving and delivering strategic transformations for companies such as Accenture, De Beers, Chevron, Dell, and EDF, primarily in supply chain management, operations, commercial, and finance functions.
Grounded and Inspired by Industry and Academia
These are some of the organisations that that we’ve worked with who have inspired and informed the development of Digital Acumen.


We are proud to be an industry partner of:


You’ll never see the world the same again!
Digital Acumen is a digitally delivered service. It has some common components and can include coaching, facilitation and mentoring services as required. We can configure it for individuals, groups or organisations.
Over A Few Weeks, Digital Acumen Gives You A Fast Start…
And the main goal is to help you establish a habit that you will continue throughout your life. Because technology keeps progressing and it keeps driving change. It includes our proprietary sensemaking videos and a broad range of other resources. Key modules are:
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