1.
EMBRACING
DISRUPTION
UEDA Summer Forum, Grand Rapids
John McElligott August 4th 2015
CEO of 3TC Development and the Fortress

2.
Understanding Disruption
The Millenial
Mindset
The four stages
of Disruption
How we got
Here
What we do
from
here on out
The Second
Machine Age

3.
The world’s largest taxi firm, Uber, owns no cars.
The world’s most popular media company, Facebook,
creates no content.
The world’s most valuable retailer, Alibaba, carries no stock.
And the world’s largest accommodation provider, Airbnb,
owns no property.

4.
What is Disruption?

5.
Disruption
vs
Innovation

6.
The 4 stages of
Disruption
Steven Sinofsky, board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, an advisor at Box Inc. and an executive in residence at Harvard Business School.

7.
Stage One:
Disruption of
Incumbent

8.
Stage Two: Rapid
Linear Evolution

9.
Stage Three:
Appealing
Convergence

10.
Stage Four:
Complete
Reimagination

11.
EXPERTS SAY WE ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF…..
“THE SECOND
MACHINE AGE”

12.
I’m not talking about this guy!

13.
The Second Machine Age
Smart Factories and Networked Manufacturing.
Industry 4.0
Medical, Educational, Consumer and Industrial.
Robotics & Internet of Things
Technology that learns, adapts, and “evolves” to
become more efficient on it’s own.
Artificial Intelligence & Software Bots

14.
Rise of the Social Robot
Release Date
SEP
2015
$599.00$
$27,300,000 +VC

15.
Our Future World in 1999 According to 1966 Reader's Digest Book
The World of the futureOr so we thought!

16.
The World of “Back to the future”
“We don’t need roads!”

17.
The Invention of Chess

18.
18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains!

19.
1/3

20.
What do you do?

21.
Embrace New
Technology

22.
Embrace young
companies

23.
Simplify & Streamline
Processes

24.
Answer Questions, Resolve
Concerns, & Solve Problems
On Your Website

25.
Accept Disruptive
technology as
Inevitable

26.
Don’t rely on older
tactics to prevent
change

27.
Do not be the villain

28.
Do not be the Dentist

29.
Be real with yourself
and others in your
Industry

30.
SunPort plug lets you use solar energy
even if you don’t have solar panels
•Allows you to take advantage of SRECs in an effortless way
•Recently launched on Kickstarter
• A way to buy/use solar energy in tiny chunks, instead of
buying/using it by the megawatt-hour, or installing your own
solar panels
• Breaks up megawatt-hour into microcredits (SunJoules)
that you can use on a smaller scale.

31.
Embrace Disruptors

32.
EMBRACING
DISRUPTION
Questions?
contact us at JMcElligott@3TCDevelopment.com