Digital disruption is being felt in the banking, media, transportation, manufacturing, health, retail, and many other sectors. This reshaping of traditional markets is also challenging every aspect of incumbent firms in an increasingly global and competitive landscape. This is evidenced by the advent of the sharing economy and other unfettered innovations that are increasingly being empowered by everyday entrepreneurs. The accelerated wave of business transformation, however, comes against a backdrop of powerful technological, economic, privacy, security and environmental global trends that are all contributing to a new realm of economic prospects. Aging demographics, disproportionate representation, immigration trends and many other social factors are also contributing to a changing social paradigm.
