Proximity: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life
Robert C. Wolcott · Kaihan Krippendorff
Oct 2024 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Mike Chamberlain
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What if you could have whatever you want, produced and provided immediately and affordably no matter how customized—with minimal environmental impact? Products, services, and experiences on demand. Just-in-time anything, anywhere, anytime. This radical change is underway, as digital technologies push the production and provision of value ever closer to the moment of demand.
Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff provide an indispensable guide to the Proximity revolution, showing how it's transforming every industry—and our lives. Offering unparalleled foresight for leaders and innovators, they reveal how pervasive this trend will be. Proximity represents an entirely new way to serve customers, with critical implications for corporate strategy, investing, public policy, supply chain resilience, and sustainability. Incremental changes to existing business models won't suffice.
Through interviews and compelling examples, Proximity shares stories of the people and companies leading the way. The book places rapidly advancing technologies in context and explores the factors accelerating the transformation. Proximity offers a playbook for business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs to win this rapidly emerging game—and for each of us to consider the implications for our careers, families, communities, and lives.
Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff provide an indispensable guide to the Proximity revolution, showing how it's transforming every industry—and our lives. Offering unparalleled foresight for leaders and innovators, they reveal how pervasive this trend will be. Proximity represents an entirely new way to serve customers, with critical implications for corporate strategy, investing, public policy, supply chain resilience, and sustainability. Incremental changes to existing business models won't suffice.
Through interviews and compelling examples, Proximity shares stories of the people and companies leading the way. The book places rapidly advancing technologies in context and explores the factors accelerating the transformation. Proximity offers a playbook for business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs to win this rapidly emerging game—and for each of us to consider the implications for our careers, families, communities, and lives.
About the author
Robert C. Wolcott is adjunct professor of innovation at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and adjunct professor of executive education at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He's an active venture investor in over thirty companies, many of which are leading the Proximity revolution.
Kaihan Krippendorff is the founder of Outthinker and the Outthinker Strategy Network. Recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the top emerging business thinkers to look out for, he is a professional speaker and the author of Outthink the Competition, among other business strategy books.
Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer, as well as an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. Along with animation and video game characters, Mike performs narration and voices promos for television. He lives with his wife and daughter in Southern California.
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