Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
• Published by: Platinum Press January 1, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1598694200
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1598694208
• Book Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 13.6 ounces

Product Description
Technology and the economy are changing fast today-so fast it's almost impossible to keep up with them. And businesses that don't keep up are in danger of being left far behind. Author Jack Uldrich shows that not only is technology growing today-it's growing exponentially. Advances in computers, bandwidth, nanotechnology, and other fields show explosive change that offers great opportunities, as well as great risks. To succeed, businesspeople need to become Exponential Executives, willing and able to recognize opportunities and take their businesses into a bold new world.

Jack Uldrich takes you on an amazing journey through eight emerging technologies transforming our world:

• Computers
• Data storage
• Bandwidth
• Software development
• Gene sequencing
• Robotics
• Nanotechnology
• The advance of knowledge itself

Using nontechnical language and examples drawn from around the globe, Uldrich portrays an emerging world of supercomputers, nanobots, and other fantastic devices. He also reveals fifty key strategies for managers and organizations to get ahead of these developments-by jumping the curve.

About The Author
Jack Uldrich is president of the NanoVeritas Group, a leading international consultancy on business and technology. Clients include leading venture-capital firms, state governments, and Fortune 100 companies. Uldrich's work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, BusinessWeek, The Futurist, and The Motley Fool. He is the author of Investing in Nanotechnology and The Next Big Thing Is Really Small. He lives in Minneapolis.

Reader Reviews
This is a brilliant book. The author gives many thought-provoking examples of how to anticipate and leverage exponentially changing technology in business and in life. It also examines previous advancements in a variety of fields and provides all of the tools necessary for anyone to innovate in literally any context. I especially enjoyed the discussion of how the greatest inventions draw on elements found in nature. Every groundbreaking concept in the book was supported by quotes or citations to great thinkers or books. Perhaps most importantly, the book is written in a way that is easy to understood and apply. This should be required reading for anyone looking to get ahead through (or stay ahead of) innovation.