Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

by Salim Ismail

We thus label this an Iridium Moment—using linear tools and the trends of the past to predict an accelerating future.

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Now, in 2014, we are hard-pressed to identify any industry that hasn’t been fundamentally disrupted. And not just businesses, but jobs as well. As David Rose, a leading angel investor and founder of Gust, says, “Every single job function we can identify is being fundamentally transformed.” Even “old” industries such as construction are in the throes of disruption. Mike Halsall, a construction company executive, told us that significant disruptions to his industry include:

Increased collaboration (making an opaque industry more transparent and substantially more efficient) Ever-more sophisticated design software and visualization 3D printing

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the fact that information is essentially liquid, major business functions can be transferred outside of the organization—to users, fans, partners or the general

implemented attributes will achieve the ExO label