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Opportunity, The global autonomous forklifts market alone will reach a value of around $10.5 billion by 2025

Research firm Facts and Factors predicts that the global autonomous forklifts market alone will reach a value of around $10.5 billion by 2025, up from $6.5 billion in 2018.
Robotics is another rapidly growing industry, especially now that robots are more affordable and offer longer lifespans. The robotics industry is transforming not just the manufacturing of goods but also their management and distribution.

Lesson learned, The frailty of global supply chains

COVID-19 has only served to further expose the frailty of global supply chains and turbocharge demand for change.
A recent ongoing survey of 50 chief financial officers from Fortune 1,000 companies found that one-third of the companies listed supply chain issues as a top-three concern for dangers facing their businesses.

Lesson learned, The needed changes take time and ultimately will rely on technology innovation and implementation

The needed changes take time and ultimately will rely on technology innovation and implementation, often through the acquisition of technology disruptors by established industry players.

Lesson learned, The warehouse systems market to explode to $4.82 billion by 2024

Even before this year’s coronavirus outbreak, research firm Markets & Markets expected the warehouse systems market to explode to $4.82 billion by 2024, up from $2.06 billion in 2018.

Opportunity, COVID-19 has simply led to an acceleration in that rate of change

COVID-19 represents the greatest single short-term disruption to the global economy since World War II. History teaches us that times of crisis often drive innovation. This pandemic is no different.

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Opportunity, The global autonomous forklifts market alone will reach a value of around $10.5 billion by 2025

Research firm Facts and Factors predicts that the global autonomous forklifts market alone will reach a value of around $10.5 billion by 2025, up from $6.5 billion in 2018.
Robotics is another rapidly growing industry, especially now that robots are more affordable and offer longer lifespans. The robotics industry is transforming not just the manufacturing of goods but also their management and distribution.

Lesson learned, The frailty of global supply chains

COVID-19 has only served to further expose the frailty of global supply chains and turbocharge demand for change.
A recent ongoing survey of 50 chief financial officers from Fortune 1,000 companies found that one-third of the companies listed supply chain issues as a top-three concern for dangers facing their businesses.

Lesson learned, The needed changes take time and ultimately will rely on technology innovation and implementation

The needed changes take time and ultimately will rely on technology innovation and implementation, often through the acquisition of technology disruptors by established industry players.

Lesson learned, The warehouse systems market to explode to $4.82 billion by 2024

Even before this year’s coronavirus outbreak, research firm Markets & Markets expected the warehouse systems market to explode to $4.82 billion by 2024, up from $2.06 billion in 2018.

Opportunity, COVID-19 has simply led to an acceleration in that rate of change

COVID-19 represents the greatest single short-term disruption to the global economy since World War II. History teaches us that times of crisis often drive innovation. This pandemic is no different.

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COVID-19 Accelerates Technological Change, Paul Cuatrecasas, August 12, 2020, ASCM.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Paul Cuatrecasas

CEO of Aquaa Partners and the author of “Go Tech or Go Extinct.”

Extracted from paulcuatrecasas.com

Paul Cuatrecasas is the founder and CEO of Aquaa Partners, an investment banking firm based in London. Previously he was the Founder and a Partner of Alegro Capital from 2003-2010. Previous to Alegro, Paul was the co-founder and Managing Director of ARC Associates from 1993-2003. (ARC Associates was a leading independent London-based TMT mergers and acquisitions advisory practice with a full range of blue chip and entrepreneurial clients including Sonera, Cable & Wireless, Apax, Marconi, Equant, ICL, KKR, Permira and BT, amongst others). Prior to ARC Associates, Paul was a Senior Associate with Arkwright Capital (ex-Bain & Co. partners), an M&A and Corporate Finance advisory firm in London (1991-1993) and with GE Capital in their LBO and Restructuring Group in New York (1989-1991).

Over the past twenty-eight years, Paul has completed over fifty merger and acquisition transactions around the world worth more than $25 billion dollars and over 70 corporate finance advisory and strategic consultancy assignments. He is the author of Go Tech or Go Extinct in which he shares his revolutionary approach to transforming legacy companies into forward-thinking industry leaders through the strategic acquisition of disruptive technology companies.