McKinsey & Company advised AT&T not to enter the mobile tel… - Salim Ismail

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McKinsey & Company advised AT&T not to enter the mobile telephone business, predicting there would be fewer than one million cellular phones in use by 2000. In fact, by 2000, there were one hundred million mobile phones.

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Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours · October 18, 2014 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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If you build communities and you do things in public," he says, "you don't have to find the right people, they find you.

Rather than using armies of people or large physical plants, Exponential Organizations are built upon information technologies that take what was once physical in nature and dematerialize it into the digital, on-demand world.

History and common sense make clear that you cannot radically transform every part of an organization — and accelerate the underlying clock of that enterprise to hyper-speed — without fundamentally changing the nature of that organization.

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