Disruptive Technologies: Opportunity or Kiss of Death? Bob Robbins - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Disruptive Technologies: Opportunity or Kiss of Death? Bob Robbins Principal, Robbins Farley, LLC Bob.robbins@robbinsfarley.com www.robbinsfarley.com

Opportunity • Invest in Companies Benefiting from Disruption • Modify your Business Plan to Incorporate New Technology to Your Advantage • Learn from History

History of Disruption

Transportation Revolution • Electric Cars • Ride Sharing • Autonomous Driving • Drones • Hyper Loop

Energy Revolution • Transferring energy generation from individual users to centralized and distributed energy generation • Massive distribution and control changes to the electric grid • Increased fracking leading to lower natural gas costs worldwide • Replacing Fossil fuels with Solar and Wind and batteries • Impact of Hyperloop on Aircraft Fuel requirements

E-Commerce Revolution • The Amazon Effect • Elimination of Distributors • 3-D Printing • Greater Need for Product Service Locally

Social Media Revolution • Top Down Being Replaced by Bottom Up: • News-Everybody is a potential news reporter and photographer • Advertising-Preference Focused Advertising • Artificial Intelligence Marketing • Changing the Political Climate • Global Reach • Timely Impact of Messages • Instant feedback of sales campaign effectiveness

Cloud Computing Revolution • Virtual Offices • Less Capital Expenditure • Increased Collaboration • Improved Cyber Security • Document Control • Ransomware protection • Secure Backup

Medical Revolution • Longevity • Creating Artificial Organs • New genome editing methods • Growth of Nutrugenomics • Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Opportunity or Kiss of Death? • What are you doing to avoid the Kiss of Death? • What are you doing to take advantage of the opportunity?

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