Peel-and-stick solar panels

This article was first published on 2 January 2013.

I’ve included this article because it’s illustrative of what’s happening with a range technologies for which the pace of development is exponential in nature.  It also illustrates the way in which nano-technologies are enabling radical advances in a range of products and opening up new applications for products and new opportunities to disrupt the status quo.  

For strategists, developments such as this raise two sets of questions:

1. How does this technology impact my broader operating environment?  Who are the potential winners and losers?  Do the value pools shift and, if so, where from and where to?
2. How might we use this technology to improve or even trasform our existing product/service offering?