Connectivity changes everything!
When I was compiling my list of 'what world-class innovators do that others don't do,' it was obvious that all of them were chasing the new pervasive connectivity that was emerging in our world.
Pervasive connectivity? It takes many shapes and forms, including:
Social media: Sudden new connectivity to customers, constituents, and citizens provides new pathways for communication, collaboration, and continual critical fast action.
The Internet of Things: The arrival of the smart home, smart factory, and smart device provides business model disruption, big idea innovation, and new forms of imaginative opportunity chasing.
Fast teams: Knowledge collaboration tools for internal and external sharing become commonplace, and the ability to connect like-minds became critical!
All of these fast-emerging trends provided both big opportunities and massive new challenges.
Put all of these connectivity trends together - and add a few more - and suddenly the world of hyper-connectivity was providing a new form of product, a new style of organization, and a new means of communication. All the old rules, ideas, and thinking that applied to a previous world of separate, disparate, and unconnectedness no longer mattered, and indeed, were suddenly leadership ideas from the olden days.
And it became a reality as world-class innovators realized that it was within the reality of hyper-connectivity that their future opportunities could be found!
Today? These new forms of connectivity matter even more!
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/03/daily-inspiration-mastering-innovation-world-class-innovators-focus-on-pervasive-connectivity/
