Making Sense of What's Happening in Tech
- Michael G. Jacobides
- Jan 19, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 14
2022 was not a year of black swans but of "grey rhinos": large, slow-moving threats hiding in plain sight. In this wide-ranging annual outlook published on LBS Think, the piece surveys the landscape at the intersection of strategy, technology, disruption and ecosystems.
It examines the end of the era of cheap capital and naive platform thinking, the structural dominance of Big Tech despite market corrections, the evolving nature of competition under what is called a "Mark III" model, the strategic implications of generative AI, the competing visions of the metaverse, and the governance failures behind some of 2022's most spectacular collapses.
Rather than forecasting the future, it offers a framework for seeing clearly what is already visible and acting on it.
Read here.
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