The growth of bike sharing is exceptional From social lending, peer-to-peer hotels, peer-to-peer task, bike sharing and car sharing, the rise of the share economy is reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume....
The rise of the share economy is quietly turning millions of people into part-time entrepreneurs, and disrupting old notions about consumption and ownership. From social lending, peer-to-peer hotels and car sharing, the rise of the...
Collaborative consumption – shared economy - have already disrupted outdated modes of business. From social lending, peer-to-peer hotels and car sharing, collaborative consumption is reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume. But...
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...
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...
The internet has evolved from communication to social media and the new shared economy. Right now, customers are sharing media and ideas on social technologies, but in the future, they’ll use similar technologies to share...
The point-of-sale industry is undergoing its next wave of transformation Like the PC industry, the traditional bricks and mortar - POS sector - is about to see a major change in how businesses are interacting...
Some technologies can truly disrupt the status quo 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,...
The journey The internet has evolved from communication to social media and the new shared economy. The journey began during the "Internet Rush" of the 1990's. A new era, before Google, when there was a...
In many industries there are examples of disruptive companies taking down well-established incumbents - Amazon and Netflix are two disruptive companies who took down very successful incumbents in their industry – Borders and Blockbuster. The...
The terms “collaborative consumption” (shared economy) – where physical goods are shared among a group of people, rather than individually owned – might seem more reminiscent of flower power than of Gordon Gekko, but the...
Will peer-to-peer lending disrupt traditional banks Banks are changing dramatically amid an avalanche of regulatory change and widespread debt reduction. But this is not the only disruption which banks are experiencing: The peer-to-peer lending sector...
