How to Prepare Now for What's Next : a Guide to Thriving in an Age of Disruption 9780730349853, 0730349853, 9780730349860, 0730349861
Disruption is changing the playing field - keep your successful business on top Thriving businesses on top of their game
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English Pages 317 Year 2018
Table of contents :
Content: Intro
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Contents
About The Author
Introduction
Stunned by the pace of progress
The perils of prediction
A unique time in history
Part I The Four Key Disruptions
Chapter 1 Widescale Automation
The attraction of automation
Enabler 1: Ubiquitous data
Enabler 2: Artificial intelligence
The AI spectrum
AI in everyday life
The impact of automation
Transportation
Retail
Personal and professional services
Logistics and distribution
Medicine
Communication
Chapter 2 Empowered Consumers
Real challenges for real estate
The empowered audience. The three sources of consumer poweri. Information
ii. Options
iii. A voice
3D printing and the rise of the prosumer
Printing a new pair of shoes
Will 3D printing live up to the hype?
Chapter 3 Unconventional Competition
Lessons from history
Media and entertainment
Automotive
Energy
Travel and tourism
Banking and finance
When money no longer exists
Mobile phones and a cashless world
The changing landscape of lending
Responding to unconventional competition
Chapter 4 Emerging Generations
Which demographics now dominate
The Millennial mindset
Retail
Automotive. Banking and financeTravel
Sport
Engaging Millennial consumers
Market through them, not to them
Millennials as a disruptive workforce
Millennials in the workplace
Part II 9 Keys to Thriving in an Age of Disruption
Chapter 5 Dig the Well Before You Get Thirsty
With businesses as it is with bunnies
Three ways to dig the well before you get thirsty
i. Watch the tides
ii. Cannibalise your own business
iii. Identify your sources of unfair advantage
What do you know? What do you own? What can you do?
Chapter 6 Fail Fast, Frequently and Frugally
No licence for recklessness. Destigmatising failure at FordFailing slowly is painful
Magnitude matters
Three ways to build a risk-taking culture
i. Incentivise boldness
ii. Build high trust and empowerment
iii. Give access to capital and resources
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What needs a fundamental rethink, not a superficial retread?
The power of a new paradigm
The Kodak mindset that ended the Kodak Moment
The shift to a subscription model
The blessing of isolation
More than just a mindset
A new-look library
Microsoft gets back on track
The dangerous attraction of cattle tracks. Chapter 8 Foster Healthy Paranoia1. Resist the intoxicating effects of success
Like a Virgin
Swiss watchmakers almost miss the obvious (again)
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2. Prioritise the peripheral
Three Ways to Develop Your Peripheral Vision
i. Look outside your industry
ii. Look outside your context
iii. Look outside your assumptions
3. Encourage diversity and dissent
The permission to speak up
Chapter 9 Focuson Friction
When friction becomes a foothold
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