{"id":13870,"date":"2017-09-11T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=13870"},"modified":"2017-09-11T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:41:05","slug":"digitalist-magazine-q3-2017-unleashing-the-killer-api-the-power-of-soft-skills-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/digitalist-magazine-q3-2017-unleashing-the-killer-api-the-power-of-soft-skills-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Digitalist Magazine Q3 2017: Unleashing the Killer API, The Power of Soft Skills &#038; More!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/executive-quarterly\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13871 size-full alignright\" style=\"padding-left: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Q317_Digitalist_Cover_web-e1505132859756.jpg?resize=300%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Digitalist Magazine Q3 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/executive-quarterly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digitalist Magazine Executive Quarterly<\/a> is out, covering topics such as:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/executive-research\/unleash-the-killer-api\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unleashing the Killer API<\/a>.<\/strong> How traditional businesses are becoming technology revolutionaries, using APIs to let companies outside of the technology world become powerful tech players and unleash a torrent of innovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/executive-research\/influencing-customers-through-infinite-personalization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Influencing Customers Through Infinite Personalization<\/a>.<\/strong> How Big Data is making huge changes to the science and practice of customer personalization &#8212; and how to stay on the right side of the fine line between marketing and manipulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/executive-research\/the-new-dna-of-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New DNA of Change<\/a>.<\/strong> Traditional change management won\u2019t work in the era of digital transformation. Organizations need to learn how to change constantly and cope with the pain that it causes. Just about every industry is facing upstarts and forcing organizations to disrupt their established ways of doing business or face disruption. This article covers how new approaches at the organizational and individual level will be required to adapt to the constant change demanded by the digital future.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there are regular sections covering the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/digital-economy\/2017\/09\/11\/digitalist-agenda-places-to-be-in-q3-2017-05331210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top digital events<\/a>, key Digitalists who are a making a difference (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/digital-economy\/2017\/09\/11\/thinkers-amina-khan-examines-natures-blueprint-for-innovation-05333255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amina Khan<\/a>\u00a0on biology-inspired design), and the Digitalist communities around the world (this quarter:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/digital-economy\/2017\/09\/11\/microculture-bits-and-bauhaus-in-friedrichshain-berlin-05332905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berlin<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And the final article is perhaps the most important:\u00a0<strong>Only the Soft Survive.\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DearbornJenny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jenny Dearborn<\/a>, SVP and Chief Learning Officer at SAP, explains that the three-stage model of employment that dominates the global economy today &#8211; education, work, and retirement &#8211; will soon be blown out of the water. Soft skills, such as creativity, empathy, active listening, and emotional intelligence, will become critically important. As our ability to know more than those around us decreases, our need to be able to collaborate well (with both humans and machines) will help define our success in the future. Organizations have to help employees manage this shift by rethinking employee training and giving employees more time for learning courses relevant to the future needs of organizations and individuals.<\/p>\n<p>To access all this great content, simply download the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/digitalist-magazine-executive\/id1017417060?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.clarkebotinc.digitalistmagazine&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> apps, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/executive-quarterly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digitalistmag.com\/executive-quarterly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Digitalist Magazine Executive Quarterly is out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[110,390,391,1295,396],"class_list":["post-13870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practice","tag-api","tag-digital-transformation","tag-digitalist","tag-digitalistmagazine","tag-digitaltransformation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3BI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}