In his book Blindsided! Jim Harris looks at how companies and whole industries are caught off guard. He loves to talk about how an 18-year-old kid blindsided a $40 billion industry:With Napster, Sean Fanning changed music distribution forever. And why was it Apple, not any of the record labels, that reinvented the music industry in an age of digital distribution?

Being blindsided can affect all industries: Digital photography blindsided
Polaroid and Kodak. And the industry is shifting again: Nokia and Samsung sell more camera phones each year than Kodak sells cameras!

Highlights: Participants will leave the session with an understanding of:
• Why companies and even whole industries are being blindsided.
• What laws guarantee that organizations will be blindsided with increasing
frequency.
• How decision makers can identify early warning signs.
• What systems and structures leaders can put in place to avoid being blindsided.
• How you can blindside your competition.

5:00–5:30 p.m.
Conference Wrap-Up