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What I've learned in 2016

Well then: who predicted that sort of year? It's been a big one, no doubt, particularly for those of us to be working at the storm front between the Industrial and Digital Economies. Without giving away too much, the Digital Strategy business I run grew doubled in size for the third year running, driven both by our increasing understanding of how to generate growth in the Digital Economy, but also by increasing buyer awareness of what good looks like. More on both shortly. For my own benefit as much as anything else, I thought I'd document some of my lessons learnt in 2016. As ever, these are somewhat off the cuff and very much my own opinion. Here goes: The pace of change is both much faster and much slower than we expect . Science fiction technologies like self-driving cars made astonishing progress in 2016, both in terms of their capabilities and public awareness of them. Similar gains were seen in advanced prosthetics, space flight, solar panels. On the flip side 'k