"It is almost banal to say so, 
yet it needs to be stressed 
continually: all is creation, all 
is change, all is flux, all is 
metamorphosis.” 
! 
Henry Miller - writer, revolutionary.
I AM 
SCOTT 
@thescott 
SCOTT@QUIRK.BIZ
Specialist generalist 
HEAD OF QUIRK LABS
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE 
ANNOUNCEMENT…
black 
1942 PSA “Five Inch Bathers” 
youtube.com/watch?v=E4j9QGlCNuA
DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION 
DON’T BE A VICTIM!
A disruptive innovation is an innovation 
that helps create 
a 
new 
market 
and 
value 
network, and eventually 
disrupts 
an 
existing 
market 
and 
value 
network (over a few years 
or decades), displacing 
an 
earlier 
technology.
Successful companies (incumbents) can put 
too much emphasis on customers' current 
needs and fail to adopt new technology or 
business models that will meet customers' 
unstated or future needs; such companies 
will eventually fall behind. (And spend the 
years playing catch-up e.g. Blackberry)
Quality 
Minimum 
customer 
need 
Sustaining innovations 
Incumbents treat innovation as a series of incremental 
improvements. They focus on improving the quality of their 
premium products to sustain their current business model 
Resource: http://bit.ly/disruptionNYT 
“The 
leaked 
New 
York 
Times 
innovation 
report 
is 
one 
of 
the 
key 
documents 
of 
this 
media 
age.” 
Nieman 
Journalism 
Lab.
Disruptive 
innovations 
Quality 
Minimum 
customer 
need 
Sustaining innovations 
Disruptors introduce new products that, at first, do not 
seem like a threat. Their products are cheaper, with 
poor quality — to begin with. 
Resource: http://bit.ly/disruptionNYT
Quality 
Minimum 
customer 
need 
Over time, disruptors improve their product, usually by 
adapting a new technology. The flashpoint comes when 
their products become “good enough” for most 
customers. They are now poised to grow by taking 
market share from incumbents. 
Resource: http://bit.ly/disruptionNYT
It’s not about keeping up 
technologically, but rather 
the dilemma: 
! 
STEER RESOURCES TO 
TARGET NEW (RISKIER) 
VALUE NETWORKS 
OR 
BUSINESS (Disruptive) 
AS USUAL 
(Sustaining)
WHY is it important now?
A tipping point of invention? 
(At the expense of your value chains)
THE 
CONSUMER 
MOBILITY 
STACK 
OUR 
BEHAVIOUR 
THE EXPERIENCE 
SOFTWARE 
HARDWARE 
CONNECTIVITY
CONNECTIVITY 
FASTER 
CHEAPER 
EVERYWHERE
LTE-A 
Downloading 800Mb in 6s. A full length Blu-ray 
movie would take approximately 3mins to 
FASTER 
CHEAPER 
download. 
EVERYWHERE 
http://bit.ly/1lvPm2b 
- “African Undersea Cables", Steve Song, Many Possibilities, July 2009
HARDWARE 
CONNECTIVITY 
MORE 
ACCESSIBLE 
MORE 
PERVASIVE
R450 
Light: $7 
Motion: $45 
MORE 
ACCESSIBLE 
NFC Stickers R2ea. 
MORE 
PERVASIVE 
Gesture 
Proximity 
Gyro 
Accelerometer 
Geomagnetic 
Temp / Humidity 
Barometer 
Hall 
Light 
SAMSUNG 
GALAXY S4
R450 
Light: $7 
Motion: $45 
MORE 
ACCESSIBLE 
NFC Stickers R2ea. 
MORE 
PERVASIVE 
Gesture 
Proximity 
Gyro 
Accelerometer 
Geomagnetic 
Temp / Humidity 
Barometer 
Hall 
Light 
SAMSUNG 
GALAXY S4 
ESTIMOTE NEARABLES 
•Accelerometer, temp, GPS 
•$99 for 10 (incl API access)
MAKING 
STUFF IS GETTING 
#EASIER 
SOFTWARE 
HARDWARE 
CONNECTIVITY
“Building on breakthroughs in WolframAlpha, the 
Wolfram Language lets you mix ordinary free-form 
natural language into your code.” 
“Start using the Wolfram Language with no 
programming knowledge”
“HYPER-RELEVANCY” 
THE EXPERIENCE 
SOFTWARE 
HARDWARE 
CONNECTIVITY
RELEVANT, 
DATA DRIVEN 
EXPERIENCES 
EXPERIENCE 
“I expect a consistently 
relevant brand experience” 
CUSTOMER 
BRAND 
“We need a single view of 
each customer” 
DATA 
#BigData 
#BuzzwordOfTheYear 
#BigDataIsTheNewMobile
THE PRODUCTIVE PHASE 
A new era of productivity enabled 
by technology, driven by a society 
that no longer sees the Internet as 
a mysterious, intangible, exclusive, 
and scary "thing". 
OUR 
BEHAVIOUR 
THE EXPERIENCE 
SOFTWARE 
HARDWARE 
CONNECTIVITY
TAMING THE INTERNET 
Harnessing the POWER of the Internet 
for personal gain and social benefit.
"IF I take a photo on 
Instagram THEN save 
the photo to dropbox"
??
Crowd funding
“Kiva lets individuals lend 
as little as $25 to help 
create opportunity around 
the world.” 
•1,217,419 Kiva lenders 
•$604,394,200 in loans 
•98.79% repayment rate 
Crowd funding
Crowd funding
Maker Communities
Never before has is 
happen. 100x 
been so easy to 
make an idea
THEN vS Now 
$$$$$ $ 
The Next Disruption Where Digital Will Lead Us 
http://youtu.be/yJ-L2IW5DaY 
10x 
the innovators 
1/10th 
the cost 
100x 
more ideas 
turned into reality
NOW x AFRICA 
$ 
X 
the innovators 
1/10th 
the cost 
X 
more ideas 
turned into reality
NOW x AFRICA 
$ 
X 
Unprecedented 
the innovators 
fragmentation and 
creation of new value. 
1/10th 
the cost 
X 
more ideas 
turned into reality
WHO’S BEEN DISRUPTED?
Britannica vs. ?
Betamax vs. VHS
iPhone vs. many value chains 
Steve Balmer Microsoft CEO
iPhone vs. many value chains
GEARING FOR THE INVENTION ECONOMY
DISCLAIMER: 
None of the following is very easy.
1. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION 
Re-align your company’s 
TOTAL CUSTOMER 
EXPERIENCE LIFECYCLE 
with the expectations of 
the connected consumer. 
THE DIGITAL BUSINESS
1. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION 
THE ENABLERS 
Openness 
Collaboration 
Leadership 
Resources 
THE INHIBITORS 
Legacy - Systems & mindset 
Internal politics & silo thinking 
Egos & Self preservation 
Lack of understanding & expertise 
No “Customer Experience 
Officer”
2. EMBRACE the unknown NOW (RaTHER THAN ignoring it) 
80 20 10 
Sustaining business 
as usual 
Developing and 
guiding new ideas 
that come from the 
10% 
Trying new things 
Start small / Look for 
ideas internally 
! 
PRACTICE AGILE 
Hypothesise 
Prototype (MVP) 
Test 
Evaluate against data
3. UNDERSTAND YOUR PURPOSE* THAT GUIDES 
* “Visionary over commercial” 
•Allows for focus and flexibility 
•Use it to look for opportunity 
outside of your current product or 
service offering 
•Use it to identify potential 
disruptor threats 
OUR PURPOSE
3. UNDERSTAND YOUR PURPOSE THAT GUIDES 
Amazon 
To be Earth’s most 
customer-centric 
company, where 
customers can find 
and discover 
anything they might 
want to buy online, 
and endeavours to 
offer its customers the 
lowest possible prices 
Google 
To organise the 
world’s 
information and 
make it universally 
accessible and 
useful. 
Nike 
To bring inspiration 
and innovation to 
every athlete* in 
the world. 
*”If you have a 
body, you are an 
athlete.” 
Facebook 
To give people the 
power to share 
and make the 
world more open 
and connected.
4. START TAKING YOUR DATA SERIOUSLY
4. START TAKING YOUR DATA SERIOUSLY 
COLLECT 
•Active (data submission) 
•Passive (sensors, tracking) 
SHEPHERD 
Look for aimlessly 
wandering pockets of 
data that is collected 
and not used. 
A DATA FRAMEWORK THAT 
RUNS ACROSS THE BUSINESS
4. START TAKING YOUR DATA SERIOUSLY 
BE A PLATFORM 
Depending on the data, consider opening 
it up, enabling others to build (much 
better) experiences via your API. * 
* The developer’s experience is an experience worth 
focusing on too.
YOU MAY BE DISRUPTED BECAUSE… 
•The barriers to entry for competition are lower than ever 
before 
•Your competitor set isn’t what it was yesterday 
•Your customer experience sucks, and empowered people (the 
makers) create their own solutions (and value chains) 
•You’re not flexible, adaptable, agile, open 
•Your product/service strategy is based on the needs of your 
shareholders, not the needs of your customers.
Thanks 
@thescott SCOTT@QUIRK.BIZ
Digital Disruption 101 Prescription 
•The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen - http://www.amazon.com/The- 
Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Business/dp/0062060244 
•The Capitalist’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen and Derek van Bever - http://hbr.org/ 
2014/06/the-capitalists-dilemma/ar/1 
•The Next Disruption Where Digital Will Lead Us James McQuivey - http://youtu.be/yJ-L2IW5DaY 
•Digital Isn't Software, It's a Mindset Aaron Dignan - http://99u.com/videos/23495/aaron-dignan- 
digital-isnt-software-its-a-mindset 
•The Responsive OS Undercurrent - http://www.undercurrent.com/responsive-os + Responsive 
OS canvas: http://responsive.org/2014/05/introducing-the-responsive-os-canvas/ 
•On the Nature of Digital Transformation: 10 Observations - https://medium.com/business-startup- 
development-and-more/on-the-nature-of-digital-transformation-10- 
observations-9a889aa170d1 
•New York Times Innovation Report - http://bit.ly/disruptionNYT 
•Disruption Revolution - David Pasiak - https://www.disruptrev.com

Disruption, don't be a victim

  • 1.
    "It is almostbanal to say so, yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.” ! Henry Miller - writer, revolutionary.
  • 2.
    I AM SCOTT @thescott SCOTT@QUIRK.BIZ
  • 3.
  • 4.
    THIS IS APUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT…
  • 5.
    black 1942 PSA“Five Inch Bathers” youtube.com/watch?v=E4j9QGlCNuA
  • 6.
  • 7.
    A disruptive innovationis an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology.
  • 8.
    Successful companies (incumbents)can put too much emphasis on customers' current needs and fail to adopt new technology or business models that will meet customers' unstated or future needs; such companies will eventually fall behind. (And spend the years playing catch-up e.g. Blackberry)
  • 9.
    Quality Minimum customer need Sustaining innovations Incumbents treat innovation as a series of incremental improvements. They focus on improving the quality of their premium products to sustain their current business model Resource: http://bit.ly/disruptionNYT “The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age.” Nieman Journalism Lab.
  • 10.
    Disruptive innovations Quality Minimum customer need Sustaining innovations Disruptors introduce new products that, at first, do not seem like a threat. Their products are cheaper, with poor quality — to begin with. Resource: http://bit.ly/disruptionNYT
  • 11.
    Quality Minimum customer need Over time, disruptors improve their product, usually by adapting a new technology. The flashpoint comes when their products become “good enough” for most customers. They are now poised to grow by taking market share from incumbents. Resource: http://bit.ly/disruptionNYT
  • 12.
    It’s not aboutkeeping up technologically, but rather the dilemma: ! STEER RESOURCES TO TARGET NEW (RISKIER) VALUE NETWORKS OR BUSINESS (Disruptive) AS USUAL (Sustaining)
  • 13.
    WHY is itimportant now?
  • 14.
    A tipping pointof invention? (At the expense of your value chains)
  • 15.
    THE CONSUMER MOBILITY STACK OUR BEHAVIOUR THE EXPERIENCE SOFTWARE HARDWARE CONNECTIVITY
  • 16.
  • 17.
    LTE-A Downloading 800Mbin 6s. A full length Blu-ray movie would take approximately 3mins to FASTER CHEAPER download. EVERYWHERE http://bit.ly/1lvPm2b - “African Undersea Cables", Steve Song, Many Possibilities, July 2009
  • 18.
    HARDWARE CONNECTIVITY MORE ACCESSIBLE MORE PERVASIVE
  • 19.
    R450 Light: $7 Motion: $45 MORE ACCESSIBLE NFC Stickers R2ea. MORE PERVASIVE Gesture Proximity Gyro Accelerometer Geomagnetic Temp / Humidity Barometer Hall Light SAMSUNG GALAXY S4
  • 20.
    R450 Light: $7 Motion: $45 MORE ACCESSIBLE NFC Stickers R2ea. MORE PERVASIVE Gesture Proximity Gyro Accelerometer Geomagnetic Temp / Humidity Barometer Hall Light SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 ESTIMOTE NEARABLES •Accelerometer, temp, GPS •$99 for 10 (incl API access)
  • 21.
    MAKING STUFF ISGETTING #EASIER SOFTWARE HARDWARE CONNECTIVITY
  • 22.
    “Building on breakthroughsin WolframAlpha, the Wolfram Language lets you mix ordinary free-form natural language into your code.” “Start using the Wolfram Language with no programming knowledge”
  • 23.
    “HYPER-RELEVANCY” THE EXPERIENCE SOFTWARE HARDWARE CONNECTIVITY
  • 24.
    RELEVANT, DATA DRIVEN EXPERIENCES EXPERIENCE “I expect a consistently relevant brand experience” CUSTOMER BRAND “We need a single view of each customer” DATA #BigData #BuzzwordOfTheYear #BigDataIsTheNewMobile
  • 25.
    THE PRODUCTIVE PHASE A new era of productivity enabled by technology, driven by a society that no longer sees the Internet as a mysterious, intangible, exclusive, and scary "thing". OUR BEHAVIOUR THE EXPERIENCE SOFTWARE HARDWARE CONNECTIVITY
  • 26.
    TAMING THE INTERNET Harnessing the POWER of the Internet for personal gain and social benefit.
  • 27.
    "IF I takea photo on Instagram THEN save the photo to dropbox"
  • 28.
  • 29.
  • 30.
    “Kiva lets individualslend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.” •1,217,419 Kiva lenders •$604,394,200 in loans •98.79% repayment rate Crowd funding
  • 31.
  • 32.
  • 33.
    Never before hasis happen. 100x been so easy to make an idea
  • 34.
    THEN vS Now $$$$$ $ The Next Disruption Where Digital Will Lead Us http://youtu.be/yJ-L2IW5DaY 10x the innovators 1/10th the cost 100x more ideas turned into reality
  • 35.
    NOW x AFRICA $ X the innovators 1/10th the cost X more ideas turned into reality
  • 36.
    NOW x AFRICA $ X Unprecedented the innovators fragmentation and creation of new value. 1/10th the cost X more ideas turned into reality
  • 37.
  • 38.
  • 39.
  • 40.
    iPhone vs. manyvalue chains Steve Balmer Microsoft CEO
  • 41.
    iPhone vs. manyvalue chains
  • 42.
    GEARING FOR THEINVENTION ECONOMY
  • 43.
    DISCLAIMER: None ofthe following is very easy.
  • 44.
    1. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Re-align your company’s TOTAL CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE LIFECYCLE with the expectations of the connected consumer. THE DIGITAL BUSINESS
  • 45.
    1. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION THE ENABLERS Openness Collaboration Leadership Resources THE INHIBITORS Legacy - Systems & mindset Internal politics & silo thinking Egos & Self preservation Lack of understanding & expertise No “Customer Experience Officer”
  • 46.
    2. EMBRACE theunknown NOW (RaTHER THAN ignoring it) 80 20 10 Sustaining business as usual Developing and guiding new ideas that come from the 10% Trying new things Start small / Look for ideas internally ! PRACTICE AGILE Hypothesise Prototype (MVP) Test Evaluate against data
  • 47.
    3. UNDERSTAND YOURPURPOSE* THAT GUIDES * “Visionary over commercial” •Allows for focus and flexibility •Use it to look for opportunity outside of your current product or service offering •Use it to identify potential disruptor threats OUR PURPOSE
  • 48.
    3. UNDERSTAND YOURPURPOSE THAT GUIDES Amazon To be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavours to offer its customers the lowest possible prices Google To organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Nike To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. *”If you have a body, you are an athlete.” Facebook To give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
  • 49.
    4. START TAKINGYOUR DATA SERIOUSLY
  • 50.
    4. START TAKINGYOUR DATA SERIOUSLY COLLECT •Active (data submission) •Passive (sensors, tracking) SHEPHERD Look for aimlessly wandering pockets of data that is collected and not used. A DATA FRAMEWORK THAT RUNS ACROSS THE BUSINESS
  • 51.
    4. START TAKINGYOUR DATA SERIOUSLY BE A PLATFORM Depending on the data, consider opening it up, enabling others to build (much better) experiences via your API. * * The developer’s experience is an experience worth focusing on too.
  • 52.
    YOU MAY BEDISRUPTED BECAUSE… •The barriers to entry for competition are lower than ever before •Your competitor set isn’t what it was yesterday •Your customer experience sucks, and empowered people (the makers) create their own solutions (and value chains) •You’re not flexible, adaptable, agile, open •Your product/service strategy is based on the needs of your shareholders, not the needs of your customers.
  • 53.
  • 54.
    Digital Disruption 101Prescription •The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen - http://www.amazon.com/The- Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Business/dp/0062060244 •The Capitalist’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen and Derek van Bever - http://hbr.org/ 2014/06/the-capitalists-dilemma/ar/1 •The Next Disruption Where Digital Will Lead Us James McQuivey - http://youtu.be/yJ-L2IW5DaY •Digital Isn't Software, It's a Mindset Aaron Dignan - http://99u.com/videos/23495/aaron-dignan- digital-isnt-software-its-a-mindset •The Responsive OS Undercurrent - http://www.undercurrent.com/responsive-os + Responsive OS canvas: http://responsive.org/2014/05/introducing-the-responsive-os-canvas/ •On the Nature of Digital Transformation: 10 Observations - https://medium.com/business-startup- development-and-more/on-the-nature-of-digital-transformation-10- observations-9a889aa170d1 •New York Times Innovation Report - http://bit.ly/disruptionNYT •Disruption Revolution - David Pasiak - https://www.disruptrev.com