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Quiz: Is Healthcare Next on the List?
Pop quiz:
What do address books, video cameras, pagers, wristwatches, maps, books, travel games, flashlights, home telephones, cash registers, Walkmen, day timers, alarm clocks, answering machines, The Yellow Pages, wallets, keys, transistor radios, personal digital assistants, dashboard navigation systems, newspapers and magazines, directory assistance, travel and insurance agents, restaurant guides and pocket calculators all have in common?
This question was posed by Paul Nunes and Larry Downes in their recent Forbes article “How Innovations Become Better and Cheaper“.
For today’s quiz, we’ll have 3 levels of scoring– 2 points for a good answer, 5 points for a better answer, and 10 points for the best answer.
The 2 point answer: each of these products or services is in the process of being disrupted by a new technological innovation.
The 5 point answer: each of these products or servicesĀ is being supplantedĀ by what Nunes and Downes refer to as a “Big Bang Disruption”.Ā Read their Harvard Business Review article for more details on Big Bang Disruption.
The 10 point answer?
The disruptor for each of these products and services was the same: the smartphone.
By combining connectivity with the Internet, high bandwidth data, high definition displays and cameras, access to outside data sources including GPS and search, and sensors, smartphones and other mobile devices have become a platform for launching one Big Bang Disruptor after another, at a speed that seems to be accelerating.
For bonus points on the quiz, here’s a food for-thought-question to ponder:
Is healthcare next on the list of products/services that will be disrupted by the smartphone?
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