Technology and business change - creative destruction?
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 4:41PM ;)
McKinsey Quarterly's "Clouds, big data and smart assets - Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch" is worth a read for anyone interested in some of the meta issues related to technologically driven change (the full article is free for registered users of the McKinsey website - registration is free). However, its focus on how large companies are being impacted by new technologies is missing an important point. I think one of the most important changes to the business environment is the power that many new, easy to use and affordable technologies gives to small companies. The ability to quickly create agile teams of independent workers who can collaborate seamlessly across geographic and organisational boundaries is significant. Large companies, even if they are using wikis, blogs and other online tools, stand to ultimately lose out as new ways of working become more attractive to the workforce.
Reader Comments (2)
Hi Martin
You might be interest with this interview (http://bit.ly/d0mext) we did for the FitForum.org with David Coleman of http://www.collaborate.com/. David specializes in collaboration, online community, knowledge management and social networks. He also interesting ideas in relation to IT and collaboration, some of which he talked about with us. We are having another chat with him next week, if you are interested I will send you details, and you can join us on the call.
Steve
thanks for the offer, Steve - I would have liked to join you for that but am on hols from tomorrow - I'll be interested in having a chat sometime as it looks very interesting