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Modern societies face a wide range of seemingly intractable challenges -- sluggish wage growth, ageing demographics, rising health care costs, environmental resiliency, global competitiveness, and often worrisome levels of public sector debt.

Please join us for this Executive Roundtable and Dinner, hosted by Lord Knight of Weymouth, at the House of Lords on 18 February 2020. Lord Jim Knight was a panellist on LEF’s recent Ethical Digital Study Tour, sharing insights on this important topic as both policymaker and legislator.

Every sector is feeling the impact of digital-first platform organizations, whether by joining their ecosystems as a producer, consuming one of their services or having business stripped away. Traditional, digital-second organizations – with their roots in physical good and services - can benefit by finding a way to become or partner with a platform business.

Entering 2020 and a new decade, we’re seeing powerful macro transitions at play beyond technology, both economic and political. Economically there is ongoing east vs. west tension, resetting of trade tariffs and greater regionalization drivers. Politically, the importance of diversity, climate, the role of business in society and national identity are forcing leaders to consider the role they must play in helping navigate their organization for a successful outcome.

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 the 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 industrialisation.

More information will be provided soon.