No Ordinary Disruption Quotes

“In a world where technology is allowing sharks to fall prey to minnows, business leaders have to become fluent in information technology. As companies seek to negotiate the new landscape, as they eye potential rivals and partners, they have to elevate technology to the core of strategic thinking in every business unit. In addition to employing a chief information officer, who generally tends to the nuts and bolts of the technology a company uses, there is a strong argument for having a chief digital officer, who oversees technology as a strategic issue. Technology is becoming the lever through which companies can disrupt their own business models and adapt to the changing basis of competition. Burberry,”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“Leaders must build and manage systematic ways of keeping the skills of employees up-to-date and must ensure that executive teams and boards remain well informed about the latest technological developments.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“Sales of industrial robots grew by 170 percent in just two years between 2009 and 2011,”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“Each will contribute more to global growth between now and 2025 than Madrid, Milan, or Zurich.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“How many people have spotted Surat, Foshan, or Porto Alegre on their strategic radars?”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“In contrast, between 2010 and 2025, 440 cities in developing nations will generate nearly half of global GDP growth.27”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“worldwide, the share of older workers (above fifty-five years) in the workforce is expected to increase from 14 percent in 2010 to 22 percent by 2030. The graying of the workforce will be felt most acutely in advanced economies and in China, where the share of older workers will increase to 27 and 31 percent of the workforce, respectively.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“The number of Chinese aged fifty-five or older is likely to rise to more than 43 percent of the population in 2030, from 26 percent today.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“Moody’s, the credit-rating agency, in 2014 projected that the number of “superaged” countries—where more than one-fifth of the population is sixty-five or older—would rise from 3 today (Germany, Italy, and Japan) to 13 in 2020 and to 34 in 2030.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“It is easy for the leader of a business to take a quick look at Kumasi, and at the thousands of up-and-coming cities in the developing world, and conclude that his or her company is not missing out on all that much by not being there today. But at a time of rapid, surprising change, snapshots that capture a moment in economic time can be deeply misleading. In this age of Instagram, we must apply new filters to the mental and financial pictures we take. Our intuition—the nerve center that turns images into narratives—has to reset so that it processes the incoming data intelligently. The portraits we take of cities must capture the dynamism underneath the surface and highlight the brightness of opportunities, while toning down the alarming flares of risk. Most of all, they must be able to project forward motion.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“In Umea, Sweden, long, dark winters and a chronic lack of sunlight have spurred a local company, Umea Energi, to install therapeutic UV light in thirty bus stops. Commuter traffic has since risen by 50 percent.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“Telekom Austria has converted hundreds of disused phone booths in Vienna into electric-car-charging stations where drivers can pay for fuel with a text message.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“with every doubling of a city’s population, each inhabitant becomes, on average, 15 percent wealthier, more productive, and more innovative.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

“McKinsey research indicates that three-quarters of Europe’s GDP gap with the United States can be explained by the fact that more Americans live in big cities—even American middle-sized cities tend to be larger than large European ones.”
― Richard Dobbs, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends