What does 350 million years of the cockroach tell us? It is the most adaptable species and that is Darwinism!

The cockroach first appeared over 350 million years ago and continues to this day and is known to have survived all known disasters from asteroids to floods and famines to nuclear radiation. For businesses of today and especially tomorrow the key will be to have the DNA of “Adaptability” woven into the fabric of the people, organization, products and services and all stakeholders of the ecosystem. This is the key.

Emerging economies present great opportunity and examples in BRIC countries are continuously understating the need for business continuity. The biggest challenge today is the business models of today are simply not necessarily replicable for tomorrow to the horror of most CEOs and shareholders.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/02/8387417/index.htm

So what’s driving this change and in some cases the disruption that’s impacting industries such from automotive and BFSI to retail and software?

http://www.pbs.org/wsw/opinion/geoff20040422.html

The new markets and even the existing markets are crying for innovation in business models to leverage current or new technologies, processes, human capital, networks, and infrastructures and packaged to deliver sustainable and scalable economics for a win-win. This is where social entrepreneurs, technologists and investors are working overtime to leverage this next tsunami.

The cockroach definitely is the role model.