All articles tagged: disruption

How deals are shaping the $450 billion industry that manages prescriptions in the United States.

A quick look at the challenges faced by location-independent freelancers, and the opportunities they present for organizations. For more insight, read “Designing a Future for the Untethered Workforce.”

The gig economy — and the growing group of digital nomads within it — requires a wider variety of new products and services than businesses and governments are currently prepared to deliver. See also “Digital Nomads."

E-sports evolved from a hobby into an obsession, into a business — and now it is a full-fledged entertainment industry.

PwC’s seventh annual global survey of consumers suggests that the next major retail industry battle will be over control of everyday routines.

A look at the artwork from the recent pages of strategy+business, on themes including overcoming bias at work, competitiveness in the age of digitization, and the ethics of CEOs.

Michael Pennisi, the chief executive of QSuper, one of Australia’s largest pension funds, describes how to change direction at scale.

Freek Vermeulen explains why unhelpful practices go unnoticed and suggests how rooting them out can help innovation.

Technological changes foreshadow a dramatic — but manageable — shift in business logic everywhere.

It’s time to take today’s technological threats seriously and change the way you do business.

How to develop a coherent strategy to face today's technological threats. For more insight, read “10 Principles for Winning the Game of Digital Disruption.”

The influential economic theorist looks ahead to a world of virtually free energy and zero marginal cost production, and to a desperate race against climate change.

Crimes, Not Misdemeanors

Animal Spirits

The Platform Competition

Larry Smarr has become a vital conductor of innovation by insisting that scientists and researchers at the incubators he runs collaborate across the lines that separate disciplines.

The fear of disruption is often exaggerated. In reality, organizations that are threatened by new technologies and new players usually have more time than they realize to craft an effective response. For further insights, read “The Fear of Disruption Can Be More Damaging than Actual Disruption.”

Resist the urge to react too hastily to major change — or to use it as an excuse not to take action. Focus instead on making the fundamental strategic choices necessary to strengthen your business. See also “Disruptors and the Disrupted: A Tale of Eight Companies — in Pictures.”

To address slow growth, multiplexes are replacing humans with machines, and popcorn and soda with gourmet treats.

Leaders can encourage their organizations to construct their own futures by empowering internal iconoclasts and establishing a sense of urgency.

While central banks puzzle about the lack of inflation, the e-commerce giant’s swift move to slash prices at Whole Foods shows how business is keeping prices down.

Discoveries surrounding a new class of impossibly small and improbably powerful compounds could reshape the materials industry — and the world around us.

The IMD professor describes how the accelerating pace of technological change puts new pressures on established companies.

Upstart firms that want to break into an established sector often must collaborate with the very power brokers they seek to unseat.

Putting people at the core is the key to major improvements in financial, performance, regulatory, and quality indicators.