Alongside greater investment in public higher education, on-the-job vocational training is essential to creating workforce opportunities not only in a global economy, but, more importantly, when faced with the perpetual disruptions of digital capitalism.
Unlike many other CEOs of global enterprises, however, Sir Martin is sensitive and, in some ways, sympathetic to the disruption of the digital revolution.
In short, you should think of digital disruption not just as disruption magnified or even disruption squared.
Amitabh Saxena, managing director, Digital Disruptions, Washington, DC Amitabh is the founder of Digital Disruptions, a mobile payments consulting firm, and previously headed mobile money for MasterCard in Latin America.
In the meeting, he spoke of digital disruption and the need to "break shit" in order to change things.
Their distinct strategies illustrate the effects of digital disruption because no publisher is absolutely sure how to meet the challenge.
They and their colleagues are among the hundreds of thousands of victims of digital disruption, a somewhat euphemistic description of a revolutionary process.
While much of the discussion is centred on the negative aspects of digital disruption, one aspect rarely mentioned is the associated opportunities.
