Are you a Disruptor or Disrupted?

In reviewing the revealing research from a new Panasonic Study: Adoption of 10 disruptive technologies by industry, I was taken by the real issue of the spectrum of disruption and also by the lack of disruption by industries market and technologies. The Panasonic research study highlights a wide of issues from the rapid adoption of cloud, mobile and growing interest in IoT-internet of things yet other issues such as AI-artificial intelligence, robotics and energy which are all related are behind in their adoption. However, when curtain is pulled back revealing that while there is widespread agreement that their industry is going to be disrupted there is an equal if not greater recognition that they lack the disruptive human talent to make adoption or disruption faster. It is a well-known fact that there is a global shortage of researcher and knowledge engineers in AI, robotics, genetics and many other fields. Yet, there is also very few colleges and programs that can fulfill the need for talent in AI, robotics, renewable energy, autonomous vehicles, avionics and others.