Events

This year, we're undertaking a research project into The Industrialization of Technology. We use this term to mean the shift of a technology from a world of product competition to one of commodities and operational competition. This shift has a known set of impacts, including the co-evolution of practice that enables new needs to be met and new forms of industry, organization and behaviour to emerge. We've all seen this before with the advent of the world wide web evolving to the introduction of the cloud. There are many new waves heading towards us.

Register now for our next virtual roundtable to discuss and debate insights from our forthcoming report Digital Twins – A Guide to the Labyrinth.  Hosted by report author Bill Murray, this session will share forward-thinking use cases for digital twins. 

In the last month alone, we've seen China committing to carbon neutrality before 2060, Facebook & Google describing a carbon-neutral future for their operations including across their supply chains, and the UK announced its aspiration to power all homes through offshore wind by 2030. We will soon see another level of sophistication, with businesses becoming responsible for assessing & redressing emissions across their entire supply chains.

The 2020s are already being shaped by a series of powerful market shocks – not just COVID-19, but also Brexit, the rise of China, climate change, widespread political uncertainties and today’s heightened social justice awareness.  Nations and organizations are experiencing huge pressures as business models are reshaped by these external disruptions.

One form of disruption deals with product versus product, such as Apple vs Nokia. It is unpredictable and tends to change an industry. We call this substitution. Another form of disruption deals with the evolution of product to commodity or utility. Examples of this include Apple vs Android, servers vs cloud or runtime vs serverless. It is predictable and tends to change societies. We call this industrialization.

Details will be published shortly.