by Albert Meige | Apr 21, 2017 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
The first industrial revolution saw the birth of the idea of an enterprise—the same entity we are familiar with today[1]. The creative crucible of the third industrial revolution is in the process of giving rise to a new form of business. I’m talking about “open...
by Albert Meige | Nov 18, 2016 | INNOVATION
The economist Adam Smith identified three key factors for economic growth: labor, capital, and resources. While the first and second Industrial Revolutions were mostly concerned with optimizing labor productivity and capital allocation, the third Industrial Revolution...
by Albert Meige | Nov 15, 2016 | INNOVATION
This short chapter elaborates on works by Jeremy Rifkin and also Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers. They see our world entering a third Industrial Revolution. The first Industrial Revolution, which took place during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries and was...
by Albert Meige | Jul 14, 2016 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Frédéric Sutter has been the Digital Transformation Program Director of Airbus Group for about a year. Frédéric and I have crossed our paths several times in the past, most notably among which the CTO Senior Staff Meeting I had been invited to attend. But we hadn’t...
by Jacques Knight | Jul 2, 2016 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
It started in the late 1990s. Internet entrepreneurs were a new breed, low on the radar of these placid pre-9/11 years. Back in those days, the EU was self-confidently marching into a post-historical and post-heroic age. The tragic echoes of pre-market, pre-democratic...
