The best disruptors are focused on customers, not products, they use technology rather than fear it, they create new opportunities often where regulations don't exist and they are backed by those with deep pockets and an appetite for risk. Colin Cullis presents stories of Business Unusual - those people and companies driving the next industrial revolution. The associated articles and videos are available here
https://www.702.co.za/features/110/business-unusual
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 13 hours 8 minutes
Business Unusual - The changing ways we follow sport
Guest: Colin Cullis | Business Unusual Correspondent at Money Show See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
WeWork hopes to fix old office problems with big data, disruption and community
The WeCompany is due to list later this year but there are big problems with its valuation and business model. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Silicon Age - How one element has powered most of human innovation
Look around you, wherever you look you will see silicon at work. This is a tribute to the 14th element on the periodic table and its many uses. Silicon is an element that takes its name from the Greek word for flint, it does so because humanity has used flint since the Stone Age to make tools. Flint is a form of quartz which is silicon dioxide. Its the combination of the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust - Oxygen and the second most abundant Silicon. See omnystudio...
Who gets the biggest cut of the billion dollar hair loss industry?
Stem cells and 3D printing may give hope to those tearing their hair out trying to save theirs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Doomsday weapons
The risks to human survival were once out of our hands. Disease and famine our greatest threat. Industrial revolutions have neutralised many of those threats while creating new potentially more potent and entirely man-made ones. Climate Change and nuclear weapons While global warming has had more coverage in the last few years, you may be forgiven for thinking that nuclear threats are remote or isolated to attempts to create them in nations like North Korea and Iran...
It's called the web. Is it any surprise we got caught in it?
The World Wide Web is 25 years old. What was supposed to connect us has become more like a trap and we all helped it happen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Humanity 2.0: Tech is driving our evolution
Technology is becoming the driver of human evolution. It took another step forward this month. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Space weather: sunny with a chance of destruction
Solar activity could result in a rare and improbable event which could send civilisation back to the dark ages. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Peak disruption - is the internet revolution almost over?
The likelihood of seeing a new Alphabet or Alibaba in the next decade is declining. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The world may soon have only one time zone (and a new calender)
You may think that the time and date is unchanging, but it does change, and it might do so again. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.