RECODE: INNOVATION - TRANSFORMATION - MINDSET

recøde: Innovation – Transformation – Mindset offers a game changing approach to value creation in the 21st century through innovation and transformation and therefore offers the means to rewrite the playbook for value creation. This book, with an emphasis on big ambition, small steps — explores how one needs to devise new games, establish new rules, and examines a common scenario that many people tend to forget — the one that assumes that all the planned scenarios are wrong.

Global Financial Markets are undergoing secular change — some would say they are under attack from geoeconomics, innovation, transformation [often a function of technology] and affected by a reshaping of the global regulatory landscape. Against this backdrop, Innovation – Transformation – Mindset sets out to provide a framework to fundamentally rethink how innovation and transformation need to be approached — for both existing and new players in the global capital markets ecosystem — to achieve and maintain growth in a world of constant flux.

Innovation – Transformation – Mindset originated from a simple yet pertinent question: what do I need to know at the onset of a journey into digital assets and asset agnostic infrastructure to prevail and make a contribution towards reshaping global capital markets — a journey which is plagued by uncertainty and a plethora of scenarios that could play out with significantly different payoffs. Innovation – Transformation – Mindset outlines how TRADFI/ DEFI, CRYPTO and AI could reshape global capital markets and discusses the use of innovation and transformation to help financial institutions define and realize their corporate ambitions over time against the headwinds of corporate and personal inertia, political, regulatory and economic uncertainty, structural ambiguity and cognitive dissonance.

Contents:

• Prolog — The Present — A Prelude to the Future
• Z — Shaping the Future vs Forecasting the Future
• Y — Who Should Make the Future?
• X — An Introduction in Three Parts
• Book Structure
• Part 1:
  • Value Creation: The Need For an Update:
    • New Games/New Rules — The Impact on Value Creation
    • A New Intellectual Framework ... Connecting the Invisible Døts
    • The Necessity for an Integrated Finance and Technology Paradigm
    • New Intellectual Framework: A Lens on Global Capital Markets
    • A Value Lens — Solving for Economic Outcome
    • Exploration and Exploitation — A Portfolio Perspective
    • Laws of Technology
  • Corporate Ambition for Value Creation:
    • Use of Scarce Resources in the Context of Ambition
    • Ambition, Portfolio Theory and Optionality
    • Time Architecture and Decision–Making
    • Ambition 4 Innovation vs Disruption — A Quantity, Quality vs Value Lens
    • Ambition — The Role of Context and Economic Environment
  • Innovating Innovation:
    • Innovation, Invention, Creativity — Context and Introduction
    • Innovation — Strategy and Culture vs Structure
    • Myths and Perceived Impediments about Innovation
    • Innovating Innovation
    • Competitive Innovation
    • Innovation — An Investment Perspective
  • The AI 'Innovation' Machine — Toward a New Dawn?:
    • The Third Wave — Toward Artificial General Intelligence
    • Business Model Considerations
    • Predictions, Forecasts: Means to Construct the Future
    • Regulatory, Policy and Territorial Considerations
    • Ethical Considerations
  • Transforming Transformation:
    • A Remake — An Organizational Perspective
    • Governance and Execution — Stakeholders and Complexity
    • Paths 2 Change and Transformation — Buy/ Build/ Partner
  • Transforming Mindsets, Behaviors, Capabilities:
    • Dichotomy of Enacting Change
    • Change — A Personal Remake
    • Resistance to Organizational Change — A Multitude of Reasons
    • Mobilizing the Organization
    • Confidence, Persuasion and the Art of Storytelling
  • Managing Migration and Bridges to the Future:
    • Playbooks for Uncertain Times — The Role of Pathways to the Future
    • A Logic and Language to Connect to the Future
    • Building Bridges/Beachheads to the Future
    • Multiple Paths to the Future
    • Epilogue / Postscript — Moving Toward the Future
• Part 2:
  • Financial Markets: All Eyes Toward the Future:
    • Key Mechanisms of Global Financial Markets
    • Market Microstructure — Testing the Potential for Macro Changes
    • DFMI New Games New Rules — Five Foundational Requirements
    • Creating a New Game Mind Set
    • An Interim Conclusion — All Eyes and Minds on the Future
  • TRADFI and Digital Financial Assets: Innovation at Work:
    • Financialization — Key Theoretical Underpinnings
    • The Magic of Emergence — Infrastructure Trends 4 Finance
    • DFMI — Digital Financial Market Infrastructure
    • Digital Financial Assets
    • A Few More Building Blocks to Help Shape the Future
    • Potential Outcomes and Epilogue
    • Considerations 4 the Future
  • Crypto: Quo Vadis?:
    • Crypto — A Philosophical Opening
    • An Epistemological Take on Crypto
    • Bitcoin, Ethereum & Co — Expanding Horizons ... and the Peril of Demise
    • A Few Crypto Idiosyncrasies
    • Crypto — An Interim Financial Markets Assessment/Outlook
  • DEFI: Financial Market Structures for the Future:
    • The Potential Green Shoots for a New Financial Era
    • DEFI Market Microstructure — A Perspective
    • Money Remains Mercenary — A DEFI Investment Perspective
    • DEFI Grey Spaces — Requirements to Accelerate Institutional Adoption
    • DEFI — Quo Vadis? An Attempt to Peek Around the Corner
  • Markets Recøded — A Grand Fusion Endeavor:
    • The Story Thus Far ... and What a Playbook for the Future Might Entail
    • Operate as One — Fusion vs Co–Existence
    • Fusion Requirements
    • A Final Remark on Geography
• Part 3:
  • Appendices:
    • Exploitation vs Exploration — Need 4 Corporate Adaptations
    • The Art of Second–Level Thinking
    • Blockchains and Crypto
• Keywords
• Abbreviations and Terms
• Bibliography
• Why? — Motivations for Writing 'Recøde'
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Disclaimer

Readership: CXOs, change agents, entrepreneurs and capital markets practitioners that aim to lead their organizations towards the new dawn of how global capital markets operate in the future; general readers involved in reshaping global capital markets towards the gran fusion of Trade/DECi and AI.