Executive summary

A brief introduction to the Age of the Partner

Executive summary

We are entering a new era that promises to be one of the most
transformative in history

The last few years were filled with concurrent global disruptions and economic turbulence – many of which continue today. Virtually every organization around the world had to shift to a digital business model almost overnight – regardless of where they were on their transformation journey. Projects that would normally take months or years were implemented in days or weeks.

To be clear, these shifts have been decades in the making, driven by the increasingly faster pace of technology and innovation, accelerated by the pandemic. Now we’re moving beyond digital transformation to a new age of digital-first business models.

Just as the Internet and the Age of Information reshaped our global economy, this new era promises to once again, transform our economy and fundamentally reshape how business gets done.

Together these elements have brought us to the point at which we’ve now arrived – the Age of the Partner.

This paper is not intended as a ‘how-to’ but rather as a perspective that provokes curiosity and challenges you to look at our industry in a new light. We’ll look at where we are, how we got here, what’s changed, and what is needed to not just to survive but to thrive in this new era of business.