Please join us for an exciting talk by Larry Downes, New York Times Bestselling Author and Internet Industry Analyst, on how the most Internet trends of 2016 are shaking up business as usual and creating new opportunities for disruptors.
How Information Technology Disruption is Transforming Market Economies & Giving Consumers Powerful New Leverage
Larry Downes
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
2pm-3:15pm
652 Duques Hall
GWSB
Sponsored by the GWSB Center for the Connected Consumer
About Larry Downes
Larry Downes is a best-selling author on developing business strategies in an age of accelerating technological disruption. He is the co-author, with Paul F. Nunes, of Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation (Portfolio 2014), now a bestseller. Based on extensive research, the book describes a new kind of disruptive innovation and teaches executives across industries how to adjust their strategies to survive it. His previous book, The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Business and Life in the Digital Age explored the accident-prone intersection of law and innovation. Downes is the author of the New York Times and Business Week bestseller, Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, which was named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the five most important books ever published on business and technology. He writes regularly for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post and CNET, and is frequently quoted in media stories in both mainstream and trade outlets. He is currently Project Director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy and a Research Fellow with the Accenture Institute for High Performance.
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