Does your firm have a relevant business model for the future?

Situational awareness and scenario prompts are key components of strategy development. Contact me if you want to develop scenario prompts for your own organisation.

Scenario prompts 15 April 2024

The topics are space, climate tech opportunities, modified pig hearts, embodied intelligence, cars as a service, adaptive durability, relevance, AI assistants (and never forgetting), Elvis and novel material startups.

Does your firm have a relevant business model for the future?

Space is booming. Here’s how to embrace the $1.8 trillion opportunity

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/04/space-economy-technology-invest-rocket-opportunity/

Space will be a larger part of the global economy (and will be combined with restorative economics).

Climate tech VCs want to hear these pitches

https://sifted.eu/articles/climate-tech-vc-pitches

Data centres, critical metals, modelling, supply chains, timber, power, mining, recycling, hydrogen and advance materials.

Modified Pig Hearts A Potential Solution To Organ Shortage Crisis

https://scienceblog.com/543606/modified-pig-hearts-a-potential-solution-to-organ-shortage-crisis/

In a groundbreaking development, xenotransplantation, or the transplantation of organs from one species to another, is on the verge of becoming a clinical reality.

AI-powered mini soccer star robot falls, gets up to dribble and score

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ai-mini-soccer-star-robot

Advancing embodied intelligence

Recovering 216 hours per year: Tesla & Waymo

https://www.diamandis.com/blog/abundance-47-dawn-of-the-robo-chauffeur

With the rise of autonomous vehicles, the landscape of the auto industry is poised for a seismic shift.  Currently home to over a hundred brands, the next decade will witness a substantial consolidation in the automotive realm.

Scientists Invented a Bizarre New Material That Gets Tougher When You Hit It

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-invented-a-bizarre-new-material-that-gets-tougher-when-you-hit-it

This ‘adaptive durability’, as it’s known, is an important characteristic in terms of the science of materials. 

The 3 Relevances.

https://rishad.substack.com/p/the-3-relevances

  1. Does my firm have a relevant business model for the future?
  2. Does my company have the relevant organizational structure, talent mix and suppliers/partners to succeed tomorrow? 
  3. Do we as leaders and practitioners have relevant skills and expertise to navigate the transformed world ?

Humans Forget. AI Assistants Will Remember Everything

https://www.wired.com/story/humans-forget-ai-assistants-remember-everything/

Digital assistants with access to everything you do on your phone can use that knowledge to remember the life details you’d otherwise forget. But with that great power comes great responsibility.

‘Elvis Evolution’ Immersive AI Hologram Show Coming to London in Winter 2024

https://www-billboard-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.billboard.com/music/rock/elvis-presley-ai-hologram-show-london-2024-1235575537/amp/

The show promises to use a blend of “technology, augmented reality, theatre, projection and multi-sensory effects”.

Novel material startups to watch, according to investors

https://sifted.eu/articles/novel-material-startups-watch

Spider silk, synthetic leather, seaweed, hemp, wood strands, foam, recycled plastic, coating and ceramics.

sensemaking cover

WHY REINVENT THE WHEEL AND WHY NOT LEARN FROM THE BEST BUSINESS THINKERS? AND WHY NOT USE THAT AS A PLATFORM TO MAKE BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS? ALONE OR AS A TEAM.

Sense making; morality, humanity, leadership and slow flow. A book about the 14 books about the impact and implications of technology on business and humanity.

Ron Immink

I help companies by developing an inspiring and clear future perspective, which creates better business models, higher productivity, more profit and a higher valuation. Best-selling author, speaker, writer.

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