A drought in corporate investment has come to an end. A new regime of higher confidence and greater opportunity lies ahead.
Since the financial crisis, executives have been rewarded for financial engineering. Safety existed in numbers - if leaders were not investing back into their business to improve their competitive postures, laggards could bide their time. Then history repeated. All of the most impactful technologies (railroads, electricity and the transistor radio) changed the world - but only 30 years after their introduction. Today is that time for the mid-late 1990s debut of the internet. Artificial intelligence, robotics, the cloud and the Internet of Things are all teaming up to disrupt estab...
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