If you want to become more anticipatory, buy yourself the time to respond, develop your change muscle, and increase the quality of your strategy development, here are the scenarios prompts for 15 February 2023. Here are some tools to make the most of the scenario prompts.
Autonomous stores, circular business models, robot rooms, Kaizen, bat-bots, Japan and robots, mosquitos, self cannibalisation, vision restoration technologies, 50 trends (one of them “fierce facia”) and back holes as quantum computers.
Read the article about self cannibalisation and value creation.
Autonomous stores, AR and virtual assistants: Startups building the convenience store ecosystem of the future
https://sifted.eu/articles/autonomous-stores-virtual-assistants-brnd/?
Closeness to the customer as a massive competitive advantage.
All or nothing: Why circular business models require a holistic approach
Implementing circular business models requires a holistic approach in line with the organization’s long-term strategy, supported by technology and innovation
“Robot rooms” could be the future of homes and offices
https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/robot-rooms
In the future, these “robot rooms” could create dynamic indoor spaces that transform according to their users’ needs
Is Kaizen the next big digital transformation strategy?
At first glance, Kaizen and digital transformation may seem diametrically opposed
A bat-inspired framework to equip robots with sound-based localization and mapping capabilities
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-bat-inspired-framework-equip-robots-sound-based.html?
Ultrasonic bots (saves on cameras). Whatever senses are there for robots to apply?
Japan will allow self-driving delivery robots to roam its streets to combat labour shortages
Robots and labour shortage.
To spare research volunteers, robot gets mosquito bites
https://www.futurity.org/mosquito-bites-research-2872692-2/
Mosquitos, cameras, robots, machine learning, and artificial skin.
The Disintermediation and/or Self-cannibalization of the Defense Industrial Base
https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/02/13/the-disintermediation-of-the-defense-industrial-base/
A strategic suggestion to organizations if they are experiencing disintermediation is to aggressively self-cannibalise, with ecosystems and platforms as the new value creation and capture architectures of a new business model (or – to start – a standalone, but scalable business unit). Read again (and again).
Emerging vision restoration technologies
https://inghamfolami.scienceblog.com/2023/02/10/emerging-vision-restoration-technologies/?
Brain implants, retinal prostheses, magnetic coils and gene therapy.
The global 50
https://www.dubaifuture.ae/the-global-50?
50 trends. Very interesting. One example. Fierce facia. Gene therapies and advanced nutritional approaches boost the body’s natural internal armour, scientifically known as the fascia, preserving biomechanical health over a lifetime.
Physicists Say Aliens May Be Using Black Holes as Quantum Computers
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-say-aliens-may-be-using-black-holes-as-quantum-computers?
Given the rate at which quantum computing is advancing today, it is entirely logical to assume that an advanced civilisation could adapt this technology to a much grander scale.
