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So on top of my two jobs I'm currently taking an on-line course taught by the Sloane School at MIT (or at least that's the branding, all the work seems to be done in India). It's on "Digital Transformation" and it's interesting but in some ways frustrating.
It's quite hard to relate what Amazon or Uber do to a government funded not for profit for obvious reasons including that it's not in the organization's DNA to constantly flirt with boundaries of legality!
I'm also noticing that thing I've seen in a lot of business teaching and writing; the notion that life goes on in a linear fashion. So the forces that make Amazon's business model successful today will continue to operate as they do now into an indefinite future. This is particularly ironic when one is looking at "disruptors" in sectors with low barriers to entry. Quite a small shift in the environment could easily make a company like Uber worthless. Nobody seems to factor that into their market cap predictions.
It's quite hard to relate what Amazon or Uber do to a government funded not for profit for obvious reasons including that it's not in the organization's DNA to constantly flirt with boundaries of legality!
I'm also noticing that thing I've seen in a lot of business teaching and writing; the notion that life goes on in a linear fashion. So the forces that make Amazon's business model successful today will continue to operate as they do now into an indefinite future. This is particularly ironic when one is looking at "disruptors" in sectors with low barriers to entry. Quite a small shift in the environment could easily make a company like Uber worthless. Nobody seems to factor that into their market cap predictions.
