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Exponential Technology Readiness Assessment
Ten statements to assess how exposed and prepared your company is to the impact of exponential technologies — automation, artificial intelligence, IoT, biotech, new materials, energy.
The result does not measure what you already do: it measures your capacity to read and respond to change before it becomes obvious to everyone.
For each statement, indicate how well it describes your company's reality. Scale: 1 = Not at all true · 2 = Slightly true · 3 = Partly true · 4 = Mostly true · 5 = Completely true.
We regularly monitor technological trends that could influence our sector over the next 5–10 years.
We have already identified emerging technologies — automation, IoT, biotech, new materials, energy — that could change our market or business model.
Our business model has been rethought in the last 3 years to account for ongoing technological change.
We know who, among competitors or in adjacent sectors, is already experimenting with exponential technologies.
Our value chain — suppliers, customers, partners — is under pressure from technological innovations we do not directly control.
Senior leadership dedicates structured time to analysing future scenarios and their business impact.
We have already made investments, even small ones, in new technologies or operating models not yet established in our sector.
Our customers or the market are already asking us for changes with technological motivations.
The organisation can respond quickly to external discontinuities of a technological nature, even when they were not anticipated.
There is a person, function, or body in the company responsible for monitoring technological evolution and bringing signals to senior leadership.