Digital Transformation | The Race is On!

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​In 1965, Gordon E. Moore made a prediction, that the compute power will double every 2 years, while decreasing in relative cost. It is a race at an exponential pace meanwhile lasting for decades fueling economic growth.

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The digital innovation meanwhile continues for decades and each phase impacted it´s own aspect of productivity or made new things possible. While the natural resources on earth are trending towards a physical limit, we see the human intellectual capacity and imagination prosper almost infinitely.
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Looking back, the focus remained on strengthening the status quo of computing capability towards faster, better, cheaper - neglecting the fact that in a current world of predominantly linear computing requirements the availability of resource no longer remains the limit for businesses - instead, time is the ultimate scarce resource.

Moors law keeps democratizing affordable compute resource and turns blessing into obligation. It´s an obligation to make better use of affordable digital resource within shorter innovation cycles. In a cloud based world, which is trending towards zero marginal cost and global reach (as predicted by Jeremy Rifkin) -  the better business model innovator with the fastest implementation wins - The Race is On!

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

That doesn't mean that business experts need to become technical experts, but it does mean that business people need to get serious about understanding the core of technologies that they use to run their mission and into the right direction.

How is your own digital fitness level doing and what approach are you taking to lead in the digital era?

When it comes to digital, the only thing worse than standing still is running in the wrong direction.
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