I don’t know all the ways that the business world is going to be changed by the arrival of superabundant computing. And neither does anyone else. It’s going to be a piecemeal process, full of trial and error. It’ll be carried out both by technology vendors and the people that deploy their offerings within companies. And it will affect every industry and every job that involves at least some knowledge work. Some of these changes will be small, but many of them will be major.
You can engage in the hard work of figuring out what digitization means for your company and its competitive situation, or you can ignore the phenomenon or hope that someone else will figure it out for you. If you take either of the latter courses I predict you’ll find your rivals pulling away from you. Gradually, and then all at once.
” Gradually, Then All at Once : Andrew McAfee’s Blog