Digitisation and disruption: What project managers need to know, and do, to stay ahead of the curve

Kelly Parkhurst,Lead: New Digital, Corporate and Investment BankingAbsa Group Limited

My digital journey and experience

• Project manager-owner-doer-of-things• The digital manager “smorgasbord”• Getting comfortable with change

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What’s changing your world …

(whether you realise it or not)

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Artificial Intelligence• Not a chatbot• Commerce-ready• Elevating the PM role• Be already ready

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Cloud computing• Critical enabler• Cost, speed,

flexibility and scale• Remote, flexible

working

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Internet of Things (IoT)• Underlying

technologies low on the maturity curve

• Data-driven decision-making

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Blockchain• Foundation of IoT• Transparent, trusted

information flows• Smart contracts

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Project management by any other name

• Be prepared to change your job description. Every day.

• Why digital managers are also project managers (and change managers …)

Lessons learnt

7 Digital insights that every project manager should know

1. Fail fast, fail forward

2. Done is betterthan perfect

3. Collaborationis key

4. Don’t beproprietary

5. Don’t makeassumptions

6. Keep onlearning

7. There isn’t only one way to solve a problem

It’s time to change your world …

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