The Exponential Era. David Espindola

       Praises for The Exponential Era

      “The Exponential Era turns strategic planning from a stagnant limited application exercise to an active thoughtful process that can yield benefits for all companies and executives. Every company leader can find a gem in The Exponential Era to apply to their business big or small.”

      Michael Splinter, Chairman of the Board, NASDAQ and Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Applied Materials

      “I count this among the very best business books I have read. The authors have managed to synthesize a vast array of thinking and methodologies and deployed them in a practical and easily understood planning process (SPX) that addresses today’s exponential pace of change … and they have thrown in a bonus chapter on disruptions we should all be prepared for in the future.

      Strategic Planning for the Exponential Era (SPX) holds great promise to address the extreme challenge of identifying future opportunities and ensuring that all ingredients are in place to launch the products and services that customers will love at just the right future moment.

      Highly recommended for today’s business leaders. Espindola and Wright have delivered an extremely valuable guide to the future of business planning … and that future is now!”

      James B. Stake, former Executive Vice President, Enterprise Services, 3M Company, Chairman, Ativa Medical Corporation and Member of Board of Directors, public and private companies“

The Exponential Era is a must‐read for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and virtually anyone navigating our highly complex and rapidly changing world. David Espindola and Michael W. Wright offer a great model for a thoughtful and logical way to develop a strategy for environments dominated by innovation, disruption, and rapidly changing market forces. Along the way – Espindola and Wright draw on the already broad subject area to give the reader an idea of not only where we have been but where the art of strategy formation and decision‐making is going. Entertaining, practical, well‐researched, I strongly recommend this book, a primer for navigating the future.”

      General (Ret. 4 Star) Joseph L. Votel, President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

      “A century ago, a convergence across domains ushered in unprecedented advancements in human development. A look at history is very instructive, as several dynamics from that period have the potential to emerge once again – the biggest being the opportunity for convergence. In this context, convergence refers to a virtuous cycle where events in one domain spur action in another. As a futurist, focusing on the intersections provides a window into the future. Visualizing the building blocks and how they converge is the most effective way to navigate a very uncertain future. The Exponential Era does a great job of not only describing exponential technologies, but how they likely converge to transform our world. Education and dialog are critical to creating a constructive future – this book contributes to that end.”

      Frank Diana, Managing Partner, Futurist, TATA Consultancy Services

      “The Exponential Era is an essential read for our times. Our values, curiosity and a vision that champions change and improvement (Always Get Better!) embraces many of the concepts captured in the SPX methodology outlined in the book. By monitoring horizons, initiating multiple small experiments and scaling rapidly, we were able to achieve a higher level of profitability and stability despite the chaotic changes all around us. Dynamic planning processes, like those described in this book, when coupled with great cultures, work!”

      John Puckett, Owner of Punch Pizza and Co‐founder of Caribou Coffee

      “The Exponential Era will help corporations and its leaders see the technical tornados coming and have the courage to experiment and walk toward the storms, emerging on a new path to a successful exciting future. The Exponential Era is a scary place ‐ learn to embrace the change, enjoy it, and thrive.”

Ronald Peterson, PhD, former Vice President of Technology, Honeywell Corporation and Author, Gardeners of the Universe

      “The new conventional wisdom highlights the increasing rate of change of business processes and the disruption of product markets driven by Moore’s law. The challenge that many companies face is that by the time competitive threats driven by Moore’s law become visible, it is too late for them to respond. The