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

by Salim Ismail

6Ds: Digitized, Deceptive, Disruptive, Dematerialize, Demonetize and Democratize.

In 2011, Babson’s Olin Graduate School of Business predicted that in ten years, 40 percent of existing Fortune 500 Companies would no longer survive.

An Exponential Organization (ExO) is one whose impact (or output) is disproportionally large—at least 10x larger—compared to its peers because of the use of new organizational techniques that leverage accelerating technologies.

Unicorn Club (Aileen Lee’s name for the billion-dollar market cap startup group),

Kurzweil took Moore’s Law several steps further, noting that every information-based paradigm operates in the same way, something he called the Law of Accelerating Returns (LOAR).

We are information-enabling everything.