A decade ago business disruption was the rare exception – now it is a reality that companies face on a regular basis. The initial symptom is always the same – a competitor enters the market with an “inferior” product offering that the incumbent player simply refuses to worry about. Business disruption is sweeping, leaving companies […]

Collaborative consumption - shared economy - describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping reinvented through network technologies on a scale and in ways never possible before. Will collaborative consumption disrupt business? From enormous marketplaces such as eBay, to emerging sectors such as social lending, peer-to-peer hotels and car […]

In 2010, Apple introduced the iPad. The company did not invent the tablet. It reinvented the tablet and in the process reinvented the personal computer. Now the iPad has become a major disruptive force in changing the dynamics and fortunes of many different industries: traditional PC, cash register, marine navigation etc. The potential to disrupt […]

Like the PC industry, the traditional bricks and mortar - POS sector - is about to see a major change in how businesses are interacting with technology. The average point-of-sale (POS) system is expensive and costly to maintain, inconvenient to set up and manage, and not connected to the Internet. Despite the fact that these […]

New technologies come and go. Yet some technologies can truly disrupt the status quo: Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy, a report from the McKinsey Global Institute, highlights 12 technologies that could drive truly massive economic transformations and disruptions in the coming years: Mobile Internet - Increasingly inexpensive and […]