I just participated in a Gartner Webinar: Top Predictions 2017 and Beyond; Surviving the Storm Winds of Digital Disruption. These events help keep me abreast of technology that impact my governance role. Of interest, for consumer facing businesses, was the gradual adoption of virtual reality in the shopping experience and of voice interface to browse the web without screens. For other business, its is worth noting that more and more algorithms will influence the tasks of global workers thus reducing cost of operations and that business should achieve 10% maintenance-cost reduction with the adoption of specific IoT devices. Board of directors must keep a watchful eye, digital disruption is everywhere, after all driverless cars were not invented by car producing companies…