Presentation on September 24th, 2014 in Rotterdam for Social Media Week. What is disruption? Does technology change us as much as we change technology? What is the influence of technology on the economy? Are businesses cyclical? How does the economy, technology and business influence each other? Can we predict our future? Photographs of Rotterdam: Courtesy of @zzapback - zzapback.nl - all rights reserved. You can order a poster or canvas on http://zzapback.nl

1. “Everything that can
be disrupted will be”
Edwin Korver – Social Entrepreneur
Rotterdam (NL), Sept. 24th, 2014

2. Let’s define disruption ..

3. Not this ..

4. Disruptive innovation: a better,
lower cost and rapidly adopted
displacement of earlier technology.
Eliminating existing suppliers, changing supply chains or
creating new or alternative markets.

20. Peter Diamanis:
“Technology is a resource-liberating
mechanism. It can make the once
scarce the now abundant.”
Best-selling author, founder of the X PRIXE Foundation, co-founder
of Singularity University.

21. Jeremy Rifkin:
“The Zero Marginal Cost Society”
Best-selling author, The Third Industrial Revolution (2011),
founder and CEO of TIR Consulting Group LLC.

22. Technology changed,
but have we?

23. For over 10.000 years we were
farmers. Seasonal preparations,
repetitiveness, superstition and
rituals are wired into our minds.

24. Croation tennis star Goran
Ivanisevic would literally repeat
the day he’d won: eat in the same
restaurant, wear the same clothes,
and talk to the same people.

25. Croation tennis star Goran
Ivanisevic would literally repeat
the day he’d won: eat in the same
restaurant, wear the same clothes,
and talk to the same people.
Tennis star Serena Williams is no
different: she will wear the same
pair of socks for the entirety of the
tournament.

26. Football Croation player tennis John star Goran
Henderson
Ivanisevic required a would team’s literally athletic repeat
trainer
the to slap day him he’d across won: eat the in face the until same
‘he
restaurant, tasted blood wear in his the mouth’ same to clothes,
get
him and talk pumped to the up same for a people.
game.

27. Albert Einstein (1879-1955):
“Insanity is doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting
different results.”

28. After 10.000 years of grain spirits
.. we want the same results.

29. We only want (to) change, if we
believe it will improve our lives.
Obama’s Election Campaign 2008 was about change that was believed
to be for the better of the individual and the society.

30. Change + Crisis = Chaos

31. Innovation today is mostly
about making things better, more
durable and cheaper.

32. ’75% of millennials would rather
spend money on an experience
(concert, festivals, ..), instead of
buying tangible products.’
Study by Eventbrite: 69% of millennials
experience FOMO. It is an epidemic.

33. If this is your audience:
Can you change your product to
become an experience?

34. We’re social, sharing,
partying, gathering, redefining,
designing, inventing ..

35. We’re the new hippies ..
Poland’sWoodstock Festival version of 2014,
following the festival in 1969 in Bethel, USA.

36. Is the revival of Woodstock
typical or just a coincedence?

37. Nikolai Kondratiev:
1925 ‘The Major Economic Cycles’
Also know as the K-wave
Russian agricultural economist, University of Petersburg,
convicted in 1930, executed in 1938 by Stalin.

40. Prof. dr. Coen Teunings:
‘Dutch GDP should have been
15-20% higher today, if we were to
draw a trendline from 2008.’
Former director of Centraal Planbureau.

41. How does technology
influence the economy?

42. Carlota Perez:
2002 ‘Technological Revolutions
and Financial Capital’
British-Venezuelan scholar, London School of Economics,
international consultant of major corporations.

44. Is there a relation between
economical waves, technological
surges and business cycles?

51. John Kotter:
“Change the game internally ..”
Best-selling author, Harvard Business School, Konosuke
Matsushita Professor of Leadership

52. Youtube Tip: “Triumpf of the Nerds”

53. Let’s enjoy our journey to the future ..
Thank you for your attention - @edwinkorver
SocialMediaCenter.nl – SocialBusiness.Expert

54. Herman Toch in ‘Happy Profit’:
1. Linear to circular
2. From mass to personalized
3. Long to short term
4. Closed to open
5. Centralized to de-centralized
6. Top-down to bottom-up
7. Profit to purpose
8. Product to product-service
9. Market to market-service
Co-founder of Dreams & Fears, global marketer, author.

55. Jeremy Gutsche:
“Turn chaos into opportunity.
Create a culture of innovation.
Filter through all the noise.
Increase your odds. Infectiously
market your ideas.”
MBA, CFA, Founder of Trendhunter.com, best-selling author
of ‘Exploiting Chaos’, innovation expert, keynote speaker.