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With No. 5—the Web—a modern medium crowds out older ones, as technology is applied to Nos. 3 and 4.

Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1,000,000+

John Lucht

Representing a total addressable market expected to exceed $41 billion by 20321, the rapid growth of the DXP space is clear evidence of customer need and marketplace demand. Contentful plans to increase its investment in research and development by more than 20% year-on-year to accelerate innovation and set a new standard for what customers can expect in a digital experience platform.

Contentful Reveals Next Phase of Growth With Modern Digital Experience Vision, Product Innovation, and New Strategic Partnerships

businesswire.com

And most importantly for our purposes, these emergent properties have been studied extensively in groups of humans too. MIT researchers Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone discovered that teams develop measurable “collective intelligence” only when specific structural conditions are met.6 When humans were placed in groups to solve the piano mover puzzle without structured communication or clear coordination methods, their performance actually worsened as the size of the group increased. They defaulted to self-centered short-term solutions that proved counterproductive.

Incorruptible

Eric Ries

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