What Are the Signs of Convergence?
If you see one or more of these six examples in your office, you can be assured that convergence is taking root in your organization.
If you see one or more of these six examples in your office, you can be assured that convergence is taking root in your organization.
Convergence is the process of synthesizing many things into one thing, but the magic doesn’t happen all at once; there is a gradual sequence of events and when we understand the process, we can sense what may come next.
Figure 1: Platform Convergence
Source: edublogs.org
Look around your office. If you see one or more of the examples I am about to describe, be assured that convergence is taking root in your organization.
To be sure, the examples below are just a few signs convergence is occurring within the DNA of the organization.
Flies in the Ointment
Without C-Suite executive buy, it’s hard to see how convergence would be leveraged well enough. But there are other places where executive sponsorship is a given. I think it’s fair to note that organizations such as Nordstrom have data innovation labs foster and leverage technology joined with business processes.
Without educated stakeholders, and end users, convergence will fail because those workers cannot adapt quickly enough to the rapid changes occurring in almost all organizations today.
Learning More
Platforms such as LinkedIn can be used to do market research and assessments on one hand, and identify individuals who can help make those joins happen in profitable way for organizations on the other.