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Disruptive Technologies - Friend or Foe of the CTO - Part 2

CTO'S FRAMEWORK FOR SCOUTING FOR DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES SPECTRUM - CTO's Framework for Scouting for Disruptive Technologies While the CTO for ordinary times keeps track of the technology trends, the CTO for extraordinary times tracks many other drivers of changes and synthesizes a holistic vision of the future. The key drivers for transformation include social, political, economic, competition, regulation, universal, market over and above technologies. The SPECTRUM radar helps the CTO look at the drivers of transformation in a holistic way and take a proactive approach in responding to megatrends. In the case of the CTO of an Indian Automotive OEM the key drivers of transformation are: Social – sustainability, shared mobility, demographic divide etc – Hyper-connected millennials (Gen Y) have very different needs as compared to their their Gen X parents.  Automotive OEMs need to design their product in a way that appeals to younger people. Smaller, digitally enabled