Would you want to know how long you will live? Quantumrun.com - the company that forecasts trends has a service to assess how long a company will last. It is intriguing, isn't it? They say that the trend for companies to survive has dropped from 92% before 1970 to 63% in the 2000s.
It seems to me that corporate survival can be analyzed. It takes a lot of analysis, though, as there are many factors involved - government control, political influence, strategic nature of the industry, R&D budget, patents, access to capital, and many more.
Skip to industry vulnerability to disruption - that's popular and gets my attention. We're tuned in now to emerging technological, scientific, cultural, and politically disruptive trends.
Can a field and industry be primed for disruption? Forbes says that it can be and listed a number of areas that would be disrupted in 2019. These included Doctor's Office Visits, Financial And Legal Services, Healthcare Diagnostics, Education, Automotive Industry, Insurance and so on. Mostly they cover new apps and some of these seem ordinary.
And then there are apps that will really disrupt an industry. Take this one for clothing:
Say hello to sizer. A personalized measuring & size recommendation tool, which simply integrates with any e-commerce site, and recommends to shoppers the best size to buy.
Some have already gone farther with this - there are a few retail offerings of bespoke clothes from designers. What will this app be combined with to really disrupt things? Automated sewing and 3D printing for clothes. Amazon, the personalized clothes retailer, seems to be on the horizon. SizeMe at Amazon.
Today we see a Himalayan Poppy - one of the most beautifully coloured flowers - cerulean blue. Its botanical name is Meconopsis betonicifolia. This one was at Longwood Gardens.
