Disrupter’s Delusion?

Is the future brighter for companies that have disrupted entire industries? In the case of Apple, Scott Anthony and Michael Putz aren’t so sure. In a recent post on the HBR Blog Network [link], the two authors posit “The Industries Apple Could Disrupt...

In An E2E World: Think, Don’t Blink

IBM’s Institute for Business Value (@IBMIBV) has a 24-page report that you need to read to begin to grasp the big changes coming in the world economy. Written by Saul Berman, Anthony Marshall and Nadia Leonelli, “Digital disruption: Preparing for a very...

Who Will Crush Your Company?

Could it be that your company is going out of business and nobody knows it? I ask that simply because there are many people now talking about “disruptive technologies”. What are those? Think of it as a trend that will never go away. McKinsey published a...

Big Concerns With Big Data

Last October, I commented on the current trend of relying on “big data” to help in decision thinking [ see post ]. David Brooks, in a recent post for The New York Times, gave an interesting twist to the same area of discussion. He opens with the story a...

The Napster Of Education?

Michael Horn, the co-founder and executive director of education practice at Innosight Institute, and Clayton Christensen, the well-known Harvard prof and innovation expert, have a great post on MOOCs that you should read — especially if you are in any way...