It’s always fun at this point in the year look behind us and review the years best and worst tech’s and this week ABC Far North’s Kier Shorey and I explore my top 10 list of good, bad and ugly tech, 2016 style. 1. Headphones disappear – Apple continues to do what it does best, [].

When signals like 2016’s top 10 good, bad and ugly tech / ABC Far North emerge, organisations that engage early have the advantage of choosing their response rather than reacting to events. That gap between those who prepared and those who did not is where competitive positioning is actually made or lost.

The most important question is not whether 2016’s top 10 good, bad and ugly tech / ABC Far North will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.