4 Posts found for Author: Larry Downes

research revealed seven new strategies that trapped value releasers mastered as part of their Wise Pivot, allowing them to generate sustainable growth today while building capabilities necessary to leverage the momentum into a future where the only certainty is continued disruption:

1. Technology Propelled. Mastering leading-edge technologies that enable business innovation.
2. Hyper Relevant. Knowing how to be—and stay—relevant by sensing and addressing customers’ changing needs.
3. Data

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Content: Article | Authors: Larry Downes, Omar Abbosh, Paul F. Nunes | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Strategy

Larry Downes, coauthor of Unleashing the Killer App, deconstructs the new-order IT architecture that will connect tomorrow’s information supply chain.

Content: Article | Author: Larry Downes | Source: CIO Magazine | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business | Industry: Information Technology

Second System Syndrome is a business ailment first diagnosed by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. in his classic 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. “An architect’s first work is apt to be spare and clean,” Brooks wrote. “He knows he doesn’t know what he’s doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint.” But once the first system is done, the architect becomes overconfident, unaware … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Larry Downes | Source: The Standard | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Downes and Mui argue that the dominant trend behind the proliferation of killer apps is a combination of Moore’s Law, which states that the processing power of the CPU doubles every 18 months, and Metcalfe’s Law, which observes that the value of a network increases dramatically with each node that’s added to it. These two laws are fundamentally changing how businesses interact with each other … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Chunka Mui, Larry Downes, Nicholas Negroponte | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis