Exponential Transformation

Introduction

Welcome to the most transformative period in human history! We live today in a world of exponential technologies and accelerating breakthroughs, all of which present boundless opportunity. Accessing that opportunity, however, requires organizational evolution. No enterprise will be able to stay alive—much less thrive—without adapting to the exponential rate of change that accelerating technologies deliver.

This book serves as a roadmap in leading your organization through that transformation process.

In keeping with Moore's Law—which predicted that the processing power of computers would double every two years on average—the performance of anything powered by information technologies is also doubling every two years. Anything digitized realizes the same increasingly rapid, or exponential, growth rate seen in computing.

As exponential technologies converge and build upon one another—giving rise to the Fourth Industrial Revolution—they are bringing abundance to every industry and, simultaneously, disrupting them all in one way or another. While traditional business models work just fine in a scarcity-based environment, they are not designed to operate in the fast-approaching world of abundance.

Thousands of hours of real-life implementation of Exponential Organization (ExO) principles have gone into bringing you this new work. The first book to address ExO principles—Salim Ismail's Exponential Organizations—explained why the time was ripe for such organizations and ...