Inflection points--times when a rate of growth or decline shifts to a different trajectory are key business events. More startling by far as quantum shifts, where an entire business model either takes off or collapses.
The basic business lesson is to recognize that when whole new markets are growing, while legacy businesses are declining, one can go for longish periods of time where the change seems to be simply quantitative.
You see slightly more of the new stuff, slightly less of the old stuff, but within a business environment that seems stable.
Then the quantum shift occurs and something entirely new appears, as in a flash. That's pretty much what is happening now, in the print media space.
But lots of other businesses have some exposure to quantum shifts. Just about anything touched by Internet Protocol or bandwidth has at least some exposure to sudden quantum shifts.
To be honest, those of us who make forecasts always use linear thinking. Excel forces you to do that. Most of the time that works. Except when a quantum shift occurs. Then everything changes, very rapidly.
Sort of like water changing to ice, or water to steam: one minute you are dealing with one sort of element; the next moment, it is something else.
http://247wallst.com/2009/05/03/the-sun-sets-on-businessweek-forbes-and-fortune/
Monday, May 4, 2009
What a Quantum Shift Looks Like
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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