Download - The change imperative
Hello!
I am Manu Prasad, and my job title is Director – Social Strategy
I was reasonably happy with that until I heard about the Vice President of Electricity
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Vice President of Electricity
A common title in the early 1900s -
during the first years of electricity, when
it was regarded a complex phenomenon.
It didn’t disappear because electricity did.
Rather, electricity became so ubiquitous
that a specialised role became irrelevant
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It made me ask myself
Was obsolescence my future? I took it
rather personally, until another
realisation hit me
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It isn’t just me
The boat is filling up fast!
via http://www.asymco.com
It isn’t just the internet either
Digital doesn't respect boundaries.
Regardless of the industry, digitisation
will uncover inefficiencies and create
value.
~ Mike Arauz @mikearauz
Photo: Sylwia Bartyzel
Ask the thriving GAFA guys
They are consistently redefining their boundaries, and transforming entire
industries. Photo: http://bilde.digi.no/
Google everywhere
Changing drivers’ lives is just the beginning. Advanced Robotics (acquisitions like Schaft, DeepMind) will change work as we know it.
Project Loon’s balloons will change the way we access the web
Glass changes the way you perceive the world while sensors - Nest, Dropcam - change the way Google sees our homes.
Get healthy with Google Fit, even as Calico works towards changing the way we age!
iCanChangeAnything
Apple transforms entire domains! We have seen it happen before – the iPod, iPhone, iPad.
Photo: Luke Chesser
iWatch hype is at fever pitch now, but there’s more – from home automation, Apple TV, and CarPlay to iCloudDrive and Swift - a programming language.
Not just a phase
With its acquisitions, Facebook is dominating ‘social’ and ‘media’.
Parse will help them be the glue that connects different OS.
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‘Moves’ is a move into fitness tracking and wearables, and Oculus will help them change our view of ‘reality’.
And if all that wasn’t enough, their drones are around to change the way we access the web.
“An API for the material world”
Firefly aims to change the way we shop. At some point, drones will change delivery in the front end, even as Kiva works on material handling robotics at the back end. The complete fulfillment machine!
Photo: http://theguardian.com; Title: Marcus Wohlsen
Amazon wants to own retail – cloud and
ground. Everything else is cheap change!
But they’re only part of the story
Across the globe, and beyond robotics,
wearables and internet access, there
are thousands of entities who have
either changed or want to change the
world, and they will impact us too.
The Alpha bets of change
Covering as many diverse domains as possible, from money and energy to love and news, a tiny sample of a rapidly transforming world - 26 harbingers of change from A-Z.
Disclaimer: They are neither exhaustive nor always the best representative of their domain. Some of them might not even survive as a business model. But they will change the status quo.
AIRBNB Changing hospitality
BITCOIN Changing money
COURSERA Changing education
DOOR TO DOOR ORGANICS Changing local produce dynamics
EMOTIV Changing brain ‘hacking’
FIN Changing digital interfaces
Made in Cochin – my hometown
GEOFLUENT Changing ‘Babel’
HADOOP Changing data storage & processing
INDIEGOGO Changing funding
JUSTIN BIEBER Changed beliefs!
KIVA Changing microfinance
LINKEDIN Changing employment
MAKERBOT Changing manufacturing
NETFLIX Changing entertainment
OKCUPID Changing love
PLOTWATT Changing energy management
QUARTZ Changing news economics
RENT THE RUNWAY Changing fashion
SOYLENT Changing food and nutrition
TASKRABBIT Changing chore handling
UBER Changing rides
VIRGIN GALACTIC Changing travel destinations
WATSON API Changing cognitive computing
XY Changing object tracking
YERDLE Changing currencies of value
ZIMRIDE Changing commute sharing
So yes, from A-Z, change is the key
Accessibility (to resources) is changing
Production is changing
Distribution is changing
Consumption is changing
What happens to business models built to scale stability, when
everything is changing rapidly?
Here’s a reality check
What someone out there thinks of
your business model and its entry
barriers!
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Money won’t save you
The only kind of scale that exists is
user demand
Photo: Daniel Ebersole
There’s an easy way to approach this
And there’s a hard way
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The choice is yours Image: http://www.myentertainmentworld.ca/
You can plan, but you can’t predict
'Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.‘
~ Margaret Shepard
Photo:: Victor Erixon
Change is inevitable, for you and me
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“You sound like
you're looking
forward to it.”
“I'm adaptable.”