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If Only We Had a Stockpile of Ventilators
The current global crisis is causing people to rethink their supply chains, operations, and organizational adaptability. This is the first in a series of discussions between CGS Fellows Angie Tuglus and Patrick Hillberg where they assess the world and predict the future.
Making Our Future; Driving Innovation Across America
Why invoke Christensen when we are still in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis and almost 23 million Americans are unemployed, with more likely to be added? I believe that our country’s best path forward will be to take the lessons we are learning each day and apply them to the new business models being “discovered” to survive the crisis.
Taking a Peek into the Future
As disruptive as the COVID 19 pandemic is; for those leaders who are being attentive to the structural changes happening here and now, we are getting a peek into the future. I want to focus on one area that I have been writing and talking about for some time now, autonomous transportation. This is not about […]
Making the Future – Is it Time for a New “Moores Law”?
For the longest time, many in the technology community were fixated on processor speed and number of transistors on a chip along with the ever declining cost to deliver that capability. This has held up as a critical yardstick to measure our progress and technology prowess. If this was the only metric, we have been […]
Making the Future During a Crisis
While no one knows with any certainty when this episode of COVID-19 will abate and what the world will look like when we get to the other side, I do feel confident in writing that whatever your day to day environment was and your experiences were, they will forever be changed. Just looking through the lens of work […]
CES 2020: So what’d you miss?
So you didn’t make it to CES this year. You could have hung out with me and 170,000 of your newest friends, navigating 4500 exhibitors. No? Maybe you stayed home and caught some highlights online or on television. Either way, it was tough to cut through all the noise and the hype. What are the […]
THE FALL OF “DIGITALLY CONNECTED”: RETURNING TO BUSINESS AS USUAL
When checking news streams or picking up any major publication, you will likely find a discussion of the continued “digitization” of business and society. You don’t need to flip far from page 1A of the WSJ, Financial Times, or major publication to see another industry being disrupted due to technological discontinuities or companies hoping to […]
Shifting Business Models Disrupt the Automotive Industry
This blog has been written as prelude for an upcoming presentation at the Canadian Automotive Dealer Association (CADA) Summit on February 13, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario. It is the first of a two-part series applying the principles from the book, “Competing in the Connecting World” to the automotive industry as it morphs into the into […]
11 Countries, 5 Continents, 35 Days – Connecting Across the World
In just over a month, Competing in the Connecting World has been read by current and future leaders all over the world. The publisher has indicated sales in the United States and Canada as well as Germany, the UK, Australia, India, Japan, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. We are certainly humbled by the support and […]