Things have been a little, strange lately. Everywhere. Design students say that a new culture will be born out of this period and will have its spill-over effects on for not just months but on several years to come. Popular opinion also suggests this forced upon change to New World Order was much needed for a lot of those who were betting and building technologies and solutions that were “too far advanced” to be adopted. A lot of us wouldn’t be relevant (economy value-add point of view) after the storm settles unless they seriously up-skill themselves to keep up.

Hyper Cycle Map by Gartner Inc graphically represents maturity and adoption for technologies and applications. This assists an organization to understand where a product/technology is on the maturity curve and in turn help assess the risk profile of pursuing it.

As a Founder or CEO of Product, there are pressing questions like “Do the rewards outweigh the risk?”

I am no expert but these factors came out consistent whether in IT or Engineering from my personal experience. The following items act as a North Star to almost any business.

More the items your technology is able to tick off, the better are the chances of you staying afloat. Why? because as a consumer, you are always striving to achieve most of these. In short, build what your consumer wants. Yes, Henry Ford also said, “If I asked them what they want, they would have said Faster Horses”.

But I am no Henry Ford.

Also, the 3 Ts that I saw mattered were

Everything else is noise.