Living in a hyper-connected logistics industry, it is hard to ascertain the types of new technological advancements that will take place to reduce the cost and time of big business houses. For example, after the IT department determined that productivity and collaboration would increase if the company consolidated its multiple communication platforms, the IT leader explained the opportunity to business leaders firsthand and sought their support for pursuing it. Together, the leaders developed a plan for promoting the new communications platform and encouraging employees to use it. As a result, employees adopted the new communications platform more readily than they had adopted other new technology tools.
Technological change is in large part responsible for many of the secular trends in such basic parameters of the human condition as the size of the world population, life expectancy, education levels, material standards of living,and the nature of work, communication, health care, war, …