definition for: #convergence

Convergence is a global marketplace dynamic in which different companies and sectors are being brought together, both as competitors and collaborators, across traditional boundaries of industry, geography, technology and customer channels. In a world dominated by convergence, many traditional products, services and types of companies will become obsolete, but a stunning array of new ones are possible. With convergence, automobiles become as much about mobile services as about transportation; mobile phones become the means to do everything from making payments to watching videos to operating an intelligent home; media companies sound like telcos and vice versa; retailers sound like financial services companies; cosmetics companies work with pharmaceutical companies; chemicals companies work with agribusiness; and much, much more. An array of technology developments act as accelerators of convergence, including mobility, analytics, cloud, broadband and social networks. As a disruptive force, convergence is a threat to the unprepared, but a tremendous growth opportunity for companies that can out-innovate and out-execute their ever-expanding list of competitors under dramatically new marketplace rules. As defined by Accenture

La convergence des luttes est indispensable pour que notre classe retrouve sa conscience. Des intermittents aux cheminots, des militants politiques au militants syndicalistes en passant par les associatifs nos luttes sont toutes li?es entre elles.