2014: Digital Disruption: Interview with Marie Johnson

From 2014.

Author Craig Thomler interviewing Marie Johnson. Published in eGovAU. 9 September 2014.

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In this interview, I speak about two forms of disruption ~

unpredictable and predictable.

The unpredictable kind includes real breakthroughs in technology and new and unique emerging business models that no foresight could have predicted.

The predictable kind result from a series of incremental changes over a relatively long time – a ‘long tail’ of disruption based on the evolution of known technologies and business models.

While unpredictable disruption is exactly that – unpredictable and therefore difficult to plan for, the predictable kind gives organisations with the appropriate horizon scanning approaches an opportunity to prepare.

I believe that government hasn’t been paying enough attention to predictable forms of disruption.


This is the first in a series of interviews as part of Delib Australia’s media partnership with CeBIT in support of the GovInnovate. Conference on 25-27 November, 2014

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