Proximity, Robert C. Wolcott
Proximity, Robert C. Wolcott
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Proximity
How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life

Author: Robert C. Wolcott, Kaihan Krippendorff

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/15/2024


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jung

The book "Proximity: Just-In-Time Breakthroughs to Transform Business and Life" by Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff explores the transformative impact of new technologies on the way goods and services are produced and consumed. Proximity refers to the shift towards localized production, whe......more

Goodreads review by Shahzad

Summary: New technologies are enabling a fundamental shift in how we produce and consume goods and services. By allowing production to happen closer to the time and place of demand, businesses can deliver highly personalized products and services more efficiently. This move towards Proximity promises......more

Goodreads review by Synthia

Proximity is reshaping the economy “new technologies are enabling a fundamental shift in how we produce and consume goods and services. By allowing production to happen closer to the time and place of demand, businesses can deliver highly personalized products and services more efficiently.  This move......more

Goodreads review by Rood

Read on 81inklist. The view is very one-sided. If you try to fulfil every customer request, you automatically manoeuvre yourself into a logistical and financial nightmare. I understand that every customer would prefer to design their own T-shirt and use the finest materials from fair-trade organic f......more

Goodreads review by Jared

Absolutely phenomenal. The insights, examples and the appendix for action in the back are fantastic. I wrote 15+ pages of notes and highly recommend anyone in the tech space reads this. In addition, I picked up a new business model we will implement in our company 5 years from now. Truly astonishing......more