Pace of change is accelerating: what if there is no equilibrium?
Expand to see inline the other posts in Fundamental Shifts» THE GIST Gist: The historical pattern of change has been one of disruptive changes followed by stabilization periods – punctuated equilibrium. The Equilibrium paradigm is the most used by executives, strategists, etc. Even in a punctuated equilibrium paradigm, there is a reversion to equilibrium after disruption, thus making it the …
Remarkable beats excellent
Expand to see inline the other posts in Strategic Shifts» THE GIST Gist: In a world of information abundance, the most difficult step is not to be excellent at what you do, but to be noticed. Any entity that is good enough and noticed will dominate the excellent but unremarked one. This MP is obvious for a lot of people, …
Cognitive Biases series: Disjunction effects
Expand to see inline the other posts in Cognitive Biases» Gist When people do not know with certainty if an event A will occur or not, and if they have to make a decision based on event A occurring, then they may postpone their decision until they know with certainty if A has occurred, even if they would have made …
Attention scarcity is deeply reshaping businesses
Expand to see inline the other posts in Fundamental Shifts» Attention is fast becoming one of the scarcest resources, so one of the most valuable as well “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the …
Knowledge of cognitive biases needed to sustain competitive advantage
Expand to see inline the other posts in Strategic Shifts» The Gist Gist Neuroeconomics, neurofinance, behavioral economics and so on… All the fields at the crossroad of cognitive or neuro– sciences and other scientific disciplines are increasingly productive. The academics in these fields seek to understand how the brain is processing the information needed to make a decision. As it …
Mac OS adoption rate in the enterprise increases and accelerates
THE GIST Gist: The business market share of Mac systems is increasing and this trend is accelerating. The current marketshare is of 4.5% (see exhibit section below).
Digital media explodes in supply
Expand to see inline the other posts in Fundamental Shifts» The Gist As the infrastructure of the Internet has been solidly put in place and the tools to create digital media dropped in price and in skills as a barrier to entry, the supply of digital media has exploded. Think YouTube, Podcasts, etc. In this series: Digital media explodes in …
MP: Announcing the MP series
In the coming weeks, a new series will begin to appear on this blog, the Macro-Principle one. It will be a series of posts outlining a MacroPrinciple (MP). Each will follow the same scheme with 5 sections: The Gist: the MP summarized in a couple of sentences. Origins: Why this MP has emerged and will stay (or not). At Stake: Why …
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