The Great Horse Manure Crisis

Our cities cannot expand. The smell is terrible, and the health crisis even worse. There isn't enough space and there is no solution in sight.

What year do these statements describe?

1900. In 1900 there was a crisis. How do you deal with horse manure? It is hard to fathom today, but in 1900 there were 100,000 horses in New York City and each horse produced about 20 lbs of manure a day - right on the city streets. What could be done to solve this problem? Estimates were that in London, within 20 years horse manure would be 7 feet deep on every street. Experts of the day could find no solution....to grow required more horses and more horses need more food and stables and yes, there is more manure to cleanup.

Today it is equally hard for us to see the changes that digitization will bring to our society and businesses. We are stuck in the horse thinking and need to break out of it to think differently - thinking about how digitization will effect all of us. We are at a point of change equal to that experienced by what the automobile did to the horse manure crisis. Is your business prepared? Are you thinking about what digitization will do to you and your company? We have only seen the tip of the iceberg of the effects of digitization. Hold on to your seat belts it is going to be an awesome ride.