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Where can IT make a difference?

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Disruption of the classical models will create massive change in what and how we produce, we consume, we live. But where do we stand if we compare the business activities (what's the change, the progress we've made?) The value starts at the inception of the business model. A startup is now Internet-based, in an optimal resource utilization perspective, focused on a circular vision of its economic model. Renting cheap office (if any), using collaborative and virtual spaces - and renting all what it needs. This means very poor or low capital intensive businesses, with a strong profit margin if the costs are tightly controled. Customers are close to the management - and so is the marketing strategy. Big data analysis, customer relationship management systems, all the info where insight can be gained and created (a kind of old 'back and trace' notion, but cloud-based. Modern). Improvement of productivity and efficiency. Every day, decision, movement in the busines