The buzz: “Disruption is one of those words that gets thrown around an awful lot … Today, disruption is often used synonymously with both innovation and transformation.” (Kevin Rands, https://www.cio.com)
Welcome to the Platform Era, where your same-old status-quo business model will not sustain you, especially if an upstart like Uber, Airbnb or Amazon is eyeing your market. News flash: The largest businesses by market capitalization are now platform-based business models that have disrupted and grown at phenomenal rates. How to survive? Embrace new agile technologies. Unleash your ecosystem’s power. Adapt your business culturally. Yes, we said culturally! The experts speak. Prof. Alan W. Brown, University of Surrey: “It's Not the Big That Eat the Small. It's the Fast That Eat the Slow” (Jason Jennings book title). Marc Geall, SAP: ‘Move fast and break things” (Mark Zuckerberg). Join us for Digital Disruption: Threat, Opportunity or Both? – Part 2.