The Accelerating Business Environment
Technology-enabled accelerators are disrupting markets, transforming business models, and shifting value exponentially

Welcome to the exponentially-advancing
Accelerating Business Environment
Technology-enabled trends (accelerators) are driving market disruptions, transforming business models, and shifting value realization. Gone is the era of static strategies, linear forecasting, and incremental performance improvement. Today’s businesses must evolve rapidly and continuously to address market disruptions and take advantage of new opportunities, or face the severe consequences of being left behind.

Shifting industry revenues, profit pools and market values
Billion Dollar Startups
Number of U.S. Venture-Backed Companies with over $1bn Valuation ![]() |
$347.4 B Total value of U.S. venture-backed companies valued over $1 B as of July 2017, up from $72.6 B in January 2014 Source: WallStreet Journal; Dow Jones VentureSource |
S&P 500 Turnover
Average Company Lifespan on S&P 500 In years ![]() |
18 Years Average tenure of S&P 500 companies in 2011, down from 61 years in 1958 Source: Innosight; American Enterprise Institute |
Profit Pool Shifts
U.S. Music Revenues, ![]() |
Music revenues have shifted from physical to downloads to streaming Source: Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) |
Global Value Distribution
Asset Growth Rate Per Region, 2015 vs 2016 ![]() |
Asia-Pacific wealth increased by 4.5% to $80 trillion in 2016, while North America increased by 2.0% to $92 trillion Source: Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report |