“The Exponential Era turns strategic planning from a stagnant limited application exercise to an active thoughtful process that can yield benefits for all companies and executives.“
Michael Splinter, Chairman of the Board, NASDAQ and Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Applied Materials
“I count this among the very best business books I have read.“
James B. Stake, former Executive Vice President, Enterprise Services, 3M Company and Chairman, Ativa Medical Corporation
Megatrends
The convergence of exponential platforms will shape megatrends that will bring profound changes to the way we live, how our businesses operate, and the new ways our societies will function.
Hyper Global Connectivity
A Longer and Healthier Life
Augmented and Virtual Worlds
Abundance
Upgraded Transportation
Instant Personalization
Digitization of Work
Automated Shopping
Radical Interfaces
Sustainable Environment
“The Exponential Era is an essential read for our times.“
John Puckett, Owner of Punch Pizza and Co-founder of Caribou Coffee
Exponential Platforms
Megatrends will be shaped and accelerated by several exponential platforms that are converging and creating powerful combinatorial change of extraordinary magnitude.
THE EXPONENTIAL ERA
Strategies to Stay Ahead of the Curve in an Era of Chaotic Changes and Disruptive Forces
Strategic Planning for the Exponential Era (SPX)
SPX is a completely new approach to strategic planning. It starts with the premise that it is possible to foresee transformative disruptions and map risks, opportunities, and capabilities, allowing organizations to create and prioritize actionable plans designed to stay ahead of the exponential curve.
“The Exponential Era is a must-read for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and virtually anyone navigating our highly complex and rapidly changing world. Entertaining, practical, well-researched. I strongly recommend this book.“
General (Ret. 4 Star) Joseph L. Votel, President and CEO,
Business Executives for National Security (BENS)
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About the Authors
David Espindola
As a CIO, he has developed and implemented global technology strategies to drive business growth. He has also been part of the leadership team that delivered a business transformation program resulting in 6X revenue growth to more than $5 Billion. Previously, as a consulting leader, he managed large and complex engagements at strategic accounts and sold several million dollars in software and services.
Before that, Espindola held leadership roles at two fast growing tech startups in Silicon Valley. One spun off into a successful business still operating today. The other grew 5X during his tenure, reaching over $400M in revenues, resulting in a successful IPO.
Espindola was awarded an MBA from the American University and a B.S. in Engineering Management from the University of North Dakota. He is also a graduate of Stanford University’s Executive Education program.
Michael W. Wright
In his extensive career he has served as CEO, COO and CMO, board member, author, business professor, futurist, speaker, and proven entrepreneur. He has delivered more than three decades of global P&L leadership for diverse public and privately held early stage to mature technology enterprises at scale. Throughout his career he has focused on leading-edge semiconductor equipment and materials, fluid flow and filtration, instrumentation, software, cost modeling, and simulation product portfolios.
Wright is a graduate of the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power Program, and a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and Kellogg Executive Programs.
“Many organizations cling to what eventually kills them. This book spotlights the root causes and prescribes a new operating system calibrated for thriving in the exponential era. It’s likely to be the book you wish you’d read five years ago!”
“The Exponential Era provides a roadmap for strategic decision making in a digital world. It is a must read for top management teams who recognize the importance of disrupting themselves before they are disrupted.”
"Visualizing the building blocks and how they converge is the most effective way to navigate a very uncertain future. The Exponential Era does a great job of not only describing exponential technologies, but how they likely converge to transform our world."
“The Exponential Era will help corporations and its leaders see the technical tornados coming and have the courage to experiment and walk toward the storms, emerging on a new path to a successful exciting future. The Exponential Era is a scary place - learn to embrace the change, enjoy it, and thrive.”
“You will find a lot of insightful ideas in this book about the exponential growth of digital platforms and technologies that have overturned established companies and entire industries. The book offers a new approach to strategic planning in this exponential era - SPX - that is fast, flexible and iterative, to help companies become the disrupters rather than the disrupted!”
"This is a guide not simply for the engineering community, but for the broader society of all organizations, non-profits, and individuals. They do more than explain new technologies and systems. They explain how these systems are interrelated and will affect our lives. In the end, SPX is a process for asking the right questions."
"If you want to know how culture can add to exponential value, look no further. This is the guide and much more.”
"The authors have been consistently right about capitalizing on 'What's next?'. The COVID-19 environment has challenged CEOs and entrepreneurs to immediately rethink and accelerate their Strategy-2-Execution and Ideation-2-Monetization value chains. The Exponential Era is an optimistic must read and SPX is a practitioners’ playbook to become an agile, innovative, sustainable and profitable enterprise."