Business Disruption

Germany's biggest drugstore chain (high-street chemist) - Schlecker - has filed for bankruptcy. A company with seven thousand shops and thirty thousand employees. What went wrong? Had the competiti[...]

We live in an era of profound and accelerating disruption. The world is moving so fast nowadays that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it - (Elbert Hubbard[...]

A world of accelerating disruption In just a few decades we have witnessed the transition from an industrial, nation based, resource-orientated economy to a global, networked, knowledge-intensive eco[...]

Disruption is rampant Faced with an eroding core business, many companies seem to do ... nothing. They have not heard the wake-up call. In the media and entertainment industry, look at Blockbuster's [...]