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Everybody Wants To Rule The World: Surviving And Thriving In A World Of Digital Giants

Which kinds of companies will thrive and which will get crushed by the powerful forces in the global business landscape now at work? This groundbreaking new guide will help you adapt and change your business to thrive among digital giants, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

Drawing on considerable original research and case studies from Wang’s acclaimed firm, Constellation Research, this groundbreaking guide reveals which kinds of companies will thrive and which will get crushed by the powerful forces now at work.

Ultimately, you will understand how the business world is changing in the face of extreme competition and, most importantly, you will learn how to adapt now to stay relevant and in demand.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World will help you:

Understand the power of Data-Driven Digital Networks and how they have driven the most successful companies of our time.
Learn how extreme consolidation is changing the global business landscape and what this means for businesses of all types and sizes in terms of understanding where you fit in the value chain.
Gain insights into what innovative companies are doing right now to position themselves in this new reality.
Take your business from status quo to market leader.
Advocate the regulatory frameworks to ensure innovation and free and fair markets

Inside the Digital Giants - Why All The Big Tech Stocks Are Not Equally Created

Big tech stocks have dominated the growth story for the past decade with trillion dollar market cap trades in Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft and FAANG stocks like Facebook and Netflix. As investors have rushed into the tech space, many are discovering how not all tech stocks are equally created. Applying the playbook in R "Ray" Wang's latest book Everybody Wants To Rule The World, every investor can identify the new digital giants and evaluate how they will fare in both the IPO market and the post-IPO climate. Learn the 5 elements of digital giants and why the world is moving to duopoly markets.

Digital Business and Digital Transformation

Inside Digital Transformation

Since 2000, 52 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired, ceased to exist, or dropped out of the Fortune 500. In fact, the pace of change has increased, competition has intensified, and business models have been disrupted. Digitalization of business is a key factor in this accelerated pace of change. Information flows faster.

Everybody Wants To Rule The World: Surviving And Thriving In A World Of Digital Giants

In a post-digital era, every startup begins as a data driven networks (DDDNs) and aspires to become a monopoly. While it may have taken previous businesses decades to form oligopolies or duopolies through natural market forces, today’s investors and founders craft every startup and DDDN to be a monopoly on day one.

This powerful aggregation of capital, customer, content, network ecosystem, technology, and talent is possible given the huge amounts of concentrated wealth among the investor class. Thus, these DDDNs build massive digital feedback loops for all stakeholders (e.g. customers, employee, suppliers, and partners) and use this insight to mitigate risk, identify new opportunities, improve operational efficiency, anticipate what features buyers may want next, and drive dynamic pricing. These DDDNs power the business graph which provides a disproportionately market advantage leading to duopolies.

As these DDDNs grow, their data and insights give them exponential advantage and their monopolistic powers increase. Learn why existing organizations must immediately craft strategies to counter the rise of digital giants and how they can use similar techniques to build joint venture startups to organize, partner, and compete with new disruptive entrants before its too late.

Join R “Ray” Wang (@rwang0), head of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research and best selling author as he shares practical guidance on how to compete in an age of digital giants and their duopolies.

Dynamic Leadership: A Responsive and Responsible Approach

The need to create responsive and responsible leadership is a hallmark for success in digital transformation and jump starting growth inside organizations. Dynamic leadership describes a model where leaders follow a set of immutable traits and balance foundational attributes of leadership. This new framework takes into account a multi-dimensional approach and addresses the challenges existing leadership models often neglect. The global call for responsive and responsible leadership will require a new way to approach the timeless topic of leadership. Instead of taking a classical binary or rigid approach, learn the five immutable core traits and develop a balance of 14 foundational attributes as a guide to successful and sustainable dynamic leadership.

The Growth Imperative: Success In The Post Digital Age

Leaders have optimized cost reduction and hit the limits to their operational efficiency programs with technology. As pioneers enter this post-digital era, the growth imperative is paramount to success. From how we interact with each other to how we engage with organizations, the shift is right in front of us. Organizations must find the new business models powered by disruptive and exponential technologies that will craft a path to growth.
Digital business disruption is no longer an option—it’s a necessity. Successful organizations leverage a digital DNA to deliver experiences and outcomes, and to transition from selling products to keeping brand promises. Successful organizations will accelerate innovation from concept to commercialization. Powered by data, these new winner takes all platforms allow organizations to use digital to disrupt instead of become one of the disrupted.Join R “Ray” Wang (@rwang0), head of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research and best selling author of the Harvard Business Review Press book, Disrupting Digital Business, as he shares practical guidance on how to disrupt and transform in any industry.

Data Privacy: The 31st International Human Right For The Digital Age

Humanity faces the biggest human rights abuse in history – the loss of privacy and data privacy. In an era of social networks, security cameras, and electronic medical records selling data privacy without compensating individuals, the general populace is in an uproar about their data privacy and privacy rights.

Learn how digital privacy has emerged as a type of property and understand how that human right should belong to the individual. Once established as the 31st international human right, individuals can embrace this human right as property and trade it, broker it, monetize it, and take back control of how their property is used. More importantly, the success of establishing data privacy as the 31st international human right will enable humanity to disconnect from the digital world without being judged and also pave the way for universal basic income.

Join R “Ray” Wang (@rwang0), head of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research and best selling author of the Harvard Business Review Press book, Disrupting Digital Business as he shares insights in to this fascinating human right that must be advocated and defended at all costs

Disrupting Digital Business: The Post Sales, On Demand, Attention Economy Is Here

We’re standing at the dawn of a digital business revolution, but we barely realize it. As with the beginning of every revolution, those in the midst of it can feel it, sense it, and realize that something big is happening. Yet it’s hard to quantify the shift. The data isn’t clear. From how we interact with each other to how we engage with organizations, the shift is right in front of us. However, organizations usually react to change by denying, delaying, and disparaging — a key reason why 52 percent of the Fortune 500 have been merged, acquired, gone bankrupt, or fallen off the list since 2000.

Digital business disruption is no longer an option—it’s a necessity. Social, organizational, and technology shifts require a new way of thinking about business and business models built around the stakeholder. Successful organizations leverage a digital DNA to deliver experiences and outcomes, and to transition from selling products to keeping brand promises. Learn how digital transformation allows you to use digital to disrupt instead of become one of the disrupted

Join R “Ray” Wang (@rwang0), head of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research and best selling author of the Harvard Business Review Press book, Disrupting Digital Business, as he shares practical guidance on how to disrupt and transform in any industry.

The Shift From Chief Digital Officers To Digitally Enabled CXO’s

The existing leadership structure in most organizations is ill-equipped to drive the change required for dominating digital disruption. Consequently, the emergence of the chief digital officer (CDO) is essential for the new age of digital business.
Though the current debate often centers on whether the CIO or CMO will win out or whether chief digital officers may arise from an expanded role for the CIO, we see these arguments as short-sighted. As with any other massive transformation, the skill sets required for digital will be infused throughout the executive ranks and the organization’s DNA. The pathway forward will involve a multidisciplinary approach. However, the skills behind digital business transformation will require chief digital officers or those tasked with digital.
Join R “Ray” Wang (@rwang0), head of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research and best selling author of the Harvard Business Review Press book, Disrupting Digital Business, as he shows how the path forward from CDO to Digital CXO’s will take place over the next 3 years.

Augmented Humanity and AI Driven Smart Services: What Happens When The Machines Take Over

Searching for a competitive advantage and fearful of disruption, board rooms and CXO’s have rushed to artificial intelligence as the next big thing. The investment in pilots for AI’s subsets of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing have moved from science projects to new digital business models powered by smart services. This unifying force for digital transformation in customer journeys, Internet of Things, future of work, commerce, and distributed ledger block chain technology revolves around the creation of AI driven smart services.

Learn how to bring immersive experiences, mass personalization at scale, and value exchange to create an orchestration of trust. Understand how these smart services will drive seven outcomes from artificial intelligence and jump start growth in every industry. While these smart services will dominate the landscape over the next decade, learn what rules and ethics need to be applied to not only augment humanity, but also keep humanity safe.

Join R “Ray” Wang (@rwang0), head of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research and best selling author of the Harvard Business Review Press book, Disrupting Digital Business, as he shares practical guidance on how to jump start growth with AI driven smart services.

The Secret To Every IOT Business Model: Lessons Learned In Digital Transformation

Digital business disruption is no longer an option—it’s a necessity. Social, organizational, and technology shifts require a new way of thinking about business, one that leverages a digital DNA to deliver experiences and outcomes, and to transition from selling products to keeping brand promises. Learn how digital transformation allows you to use digital to disrupt instead of become one of the disrupted.

As organizations embark on IOT projects, learn what are the components required to build a successful IOT business model and transition from products to services and services to experiences. Understand how to organize for customer success management and deliver on brand promises. Discover the secrets to success in crafting new business models at scale.

Join R “Ray” Wang (@rwang0), head of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research and best selling author of the Harvard Business Review Press book, Disrupting Digital Business, as he shares practical guidance on how to jump start growth with AI driven smart services.