The rate of change today is the slowest you will ever experience!
This year represents the slowest rate of technological and societal change you are likely to experience in the rest of your life! That was the stark message from keynote presenter Jonathan MacDonald at a recent Vision Critical Summit that I attended. Wow! Today, this year, right now represents the most stable, most structured, least strange period you will experience over the forthcoming years. This simple and plausible statement has some major ramifications, including: The trend towards agile and away from trying to be ‘perfect’ is likely to continue. Knowing when your business should pivot instead of preserving is going to keep increasing in importance. Feedback from customers to decision makers needs to be faster, more relevant, and the implications of the feedback need to be immediately available. Old knowledge and old skills will need to be constantly reviewed to see if they are still relevant (some will be, some won’t). Legacy problems and issues will be increasingly destructive. For example, keeping a tracking study because you have 6 yeas of back data or keeping a specific product or service because you have been providing it for 25 years will tend to hurt organizations even more in the future. The need […]