What do drones, Australia Post, Amazon, Walmart, Google and Facebook have in common? It appears a lot, with all of them (and many others) ramping up their efforts to use drones for delivery of everything from parcels to the internet. In my regular catch up with Sky Business’s Der.

When signals like #Drones on Hinch Live / Sky Business TV 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 #Drones on Hinch Live / Sky Business TV 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.