After the year that we experienced in 2020, ‘predicting’ anything about the future should probably come with a large disclaimer. 2020 separated the leaders from those just paying lip service to trendy terms like agile, flexible, digital transformation, pivot as well as the ‘new normal’.
Last year was indeed tough however the optimists among us realised early on that the COVID-19 pandemic – as well as associated lockdowns – should be viewed as the ultimate opportunity to accelerate a company’s digital transformation.
Increasingly, a digital strategy is becoming the only strategy that is worth having in a business. The impact of the coronavirus has also influenced just about every single one of our expectations around what is digitally possible, with our recent learnings prompting us to think very differently about our strategic planning for 2021 and beyond. And it’s very exciting.
The Drivers Of Digital Transformation: Three Exponential Laws
In the last few decades, digital technology has progressed exponentially, disrupting lives globally in previously unimaginable ways. And there are three laws, all exponential in mathematical-nature, that explain this progress and rapid growth.
Moore’s Law Or The Law Of Processing Power
This law says that every 18 months, our computers will have twice as much power to process information. We are able to achieve this by increasing the number of transistors in chips, change the way we design chips from 2D to 3D, change the material we use to make chips from silicone to graphite, or move towards using quantum computing.
Butter’s Law Or The Law Of Communication
This law states that the amount of data communicated through a single optical fibre doubles every nine months. There’s a variant of this law for other sorts of communication media, whether it be a wireline like ADSL, VDSL or wireless such as 3G, LTE and more recently, 5G.
Kryder’s Law Or The Law Of Storage
This law states that the amount of data stored per centimetre square of a hard drive will double every 13 months. The trend has recently slowed down to double every 16 or 17 months but remains faster than Moore’s law.