The exponential era : strategies to thrive in an era of chaotic changes and disruptive forces / David Espindola, Michael W. Wright.

The Threat of Being Amazoned and Uberized — Elephants Dancing to a Faster Tempo — Where is My Crystal Ball? — Trillion- Dollar Platforms — Changing Wheels While the Car is Running — Dealing with Chaos — Uncertainty Must Be Managed — The Premise Behind SPX — How This Book is Organized — Section One — The New Context for Our Future — The Future is Not Your Brain’s Priority — Exponentials Make Fools of Humans — The Phases of Exponential Progression — The Exponential Explosion — Moore’s Law: The Observation that Changed the World — Exponential Platforms: Convergences and Megatrends — Megatrends — Hyper Global Connectivity — A Longer and Healthier Life — Augmented and Virtual Worlds — Abundance — Upgraded Transportation — Instant Personalization — Digitization of Work — Automated Shopping — Radical Interfaces — Sustainable Environment — Exponential Platforms — Artificial Intelligence — Networks and Blockchain — Biotechnology — Quantum Computing — Internet of Things — 3D Printing — Robotics — Material Science — Animals of the Exponential Kingdom — Flash Boiled Frogs — Nokia — Blockbuster — Disruptive Unicorns — Airbnb — ByteDance — Fast and Furious Gazelles — Uber — Netflix — Dancing Elephants — IBM — Microsoft — Dominating Gorillas — Google — Amazon — Section Two — Introducing SPX: Strategic Planning for the Exponential Era — Convergence Research and Strategic Planning — The Manifesto that Changed How Software is Built — Iterative Experiments in a Feedback Loop — Thinking Like a Designer — Getting Inside the Opponent’s Head with OODA — A New Approach to Strategic Planning — Traditional Strategic Planning versus SPX — Detecting Early Signals — If It is Obvious to Everyone, It Has No Value — Research and Observation — Removing Barriers to Information Flow — Access is the Name of the Game — Dealing with Uncertainty — Conducting Research — Predictive Analytics — Timing Analysis — Learning from Experiments — Divergence and Convergence — Starting with Divergence — Moving into Convergence — Short Experiments — Risks and Opportunities Identification — Embracing Chaos and Bad News — Capabilities – The Essential Fuel to Ride the Exponential Curve — Determine Capabilities — People — Process — Technology — Market — Capital — Develop Risk–Opportunity–Capability Map — Develop Priority List — Feedback-Based Strategic Decisions — Determine Scale and Scope — Explore Highest Priorities — Gather Data and Feedback — Scale or Terminate Initiatives — Leading a Culture of Change — Exploration versus Exploitation – the Innovator’s Dilemma — Amplifying Flow Through the Organization — Mobilizing the Organization Through an Inflection Point — Knowing When to Quit — Executive Engagement — Culture and Behaviors — Judgment — Curiosity — Innovation — Integrity — Section Three — The Exponential Human – Social and Ethical Challenges in a Chaotic World — The Workless Society — Education Reinvented — Global Synchronous Communications — New Ethics for a New Era — For My Children — A Discussion About The Use of The Term Exponential.

"This book introduces the concept of an Exponential Era, a time when change within the business world occurs at a rate too steep for business managers to keep track of and react. The book is organized in three sections. In Section I the authors provide context for the realities of the Exponential Era, driven in particular by the growth of computing capacity. The book then describes the confluence of several high-value technology platforms such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Internet of Things, Biotechnology and others. Section II is about how organizations can deal effectively with the realities of the Exponential Era by following a robust methodology the authors call SPX that challenges the current thinking in strategic planning. Section III discusses the impact of the Exponential Era on humanity, and how the rapid changes we are experiencing challenges our current societal structures, economics, and ethics."-- Provided by publisher.