Tanguy Catlin: What digital is fundamentally doing, and the reason it creates a nominal value for the customer to the detriment of the incumbents in the industries, is not only the price transparency but also often disintermediation. There are many goods and services that you...
To survive and thrive, incumbents must respond. All of the players in the construction value chain will need to develop their strategies for dealing with or leading disruption. This is especially true for engineering and design, materials distribution and logistics, gen...
supply chain disruptions, and other economic challenges may result in a decline in revenue, making it difficult for incumbents to sustain their existing workforce (Brück et al.,2010; Linnenluecke & McKnight,2017). When highly skilled dismissed workers interact and collaborate, they share insights ...
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread economic distress, many nations had been wrestling with how to increase their rates of inclusive economic growth — that is, growth which benefits the bottom strata of society. The three largest African economies — Egypt, Nigeria and South Afri...
The scene is set for incumbents to double down on their innovation agenda in 2022. Innovation is once more a business imperative for firms who wish to survive and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world of rising inflation and supply-chain crises. ...
For example, global mobile banking and payment app usage grew 26% in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, according to an Adjust and Apptopia survey. Challenger banks have benefited greatly from the transition to digital, as incumbents still maintain a branch-centric ...
Incumbents are at a disadvantage. They know it. This is driving many in the sector to seek out partnerships with cutting-edge tech firms, providing the technology experience and business agility they need to survive the onslaught of challenger banks. Some retail bankers may see Apple as yet ano...
Emerging digital technologies and business models are transforming most industries at an increasingly fast pace. There is no business immune to the ongoing digital disruption, but there is certainly no sector as impacted by it as Technology Services.
That, in itself, will probably require the removal of the incumbents and their replacement with true scientists. 0 Dave in Canmore Reply to Sceptical Sam October 16, 2015 8:29 am Sam says: “1. The false economics of pursuing a Carbon Dioxide control strategy needs...
YA is what Clayton Christensen would call a “disruptive innovation,” a product that addresses the needs of a neglected customer segment not being served by the dominant incumbents in power. That some of the fiction isn’t terribly innovative doesn’t matter. What was innovative was treating te...