"Big companies that don't embrace change are ice factories. They should jump to the next curve or they will melt." ~~Guy Kawasaki
Good Morning Folks,
In the 1800s, there used to be an ice harvesting industry. People would cut blocks of ice from frozen lakes and ponds in the northern part of the United States. The ice harvesters were put out of business by the ice factories. They could freeze water in any city at any time of year. Then the ice factories were put out of business by the refrigerator companies. People didn't have to buy blocks of ice, go to the ice factory or have the ice man deliver ice. No company went from ice harvester to ice factory to refrigerator company.
In 1996, Kodak was a multinational company with a market cap of $28 billion and 140,000 employees. In 2012, it went bankrupt. In 2010, another photography company called Instagram was founded and two years later with just 13 employees, was purchased by Facebook for $1 billion.
For that matter why didn’t Sears become Amazon, The Post Office and Pitney Bowes invent email, Tower records become iTunes or Sony evolve from the Walk Man to iPod?
These are examples of the type of disruption beginning to happen all around us. We are moving from a linear world to a technology-enabled, exponentially expanding world.
Big companies that don't embrace change are ice factories. They should jump to the next curve or they will melt.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step! Changing the world will not arise from the evolution of our past. It will arise from small groups of people creating our future. Such people are now able to change the world in unimaginable ways, and we seek to demonstrate the full extent of that possibility in the ways we are (re) IMAGINING business processes, costs, hospitality and taking better care of people via outsourcing.
There is no end to what you can achieve with outsourcing. Only the limits of your imagination hold you back. Go beyond what you think is possible – and you’ll find help from FSO who can take you further!
We’ll show you how to do more with less, and give yourself more time and money to spend on what really matters.
Thanks to Guy Kawasaki and Marc Winn’s Changing The World blog for providing the case studies cited and inspiring me this morning.
And thanks to you for helping us drive the different thinking that will defend against future change.
For the folks celebrating the holiday this week. Enjoy and regards to your families.
From the Weiner family we can't thank you enough.
Rock it and let's make it a GREAT week!
Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer
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