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In the fall of 2018, we had the opportunity to engage in a discussion with a board member of a Fortune 500 logistics company. Having recently founded Intercepting Horizons, LLC we shared our thoughts on how we had entered a new era in which strategic trends and converging technology vectors were impacting organizations at unprecedented speeds. We called it the Exponential Era.

We discussed how existing planning cycles were no longer effective in this new environment, and how our services would focus on helping companies identify inflection points and develop an innovative strategic planning process that is responsive to fast‐changing conditions. We would help companies pinpoint not only what strategic trends and converging technologies would impact their business, but equally important, when.

We felt confident in our ability to provide such services because we had learned over decades of successfully chasing Moore's law that it is possible to develop a time‐enriched strategic planning process to intercept business inflection points and stay up with and sometimes ahead of exponential change.

This was enough to get the board member intrigued. He confided in us that his CEO had been contemplating these exact questions – when would these business inflection points impact their industry and business?

This informal conversation led to an introduction, and subsequently we started researching the company, its industry, the competitive forces, and the converging technologies that could represent a threat or an opportunity to this very large enterprise that for more than 100 years had been tremendously successful.

What we discovered in researching new entrants to their industry and identifying technology vectors relevant to their business had us concerned.