Recommended articles: disruptive innovation

Four recommended articles to read this weekend about ‎disruptive innovation:

1. There’s precedent for Amazon competing with so many companies. It doesn’t end well. Perhaps no other company in history has sold so many different products (354 million) while competing against so many other companies (hundreds). In the past, that power hasn’t lasted. Amazon is betting it will be different. Amazon today is a retailer, a logistics network, a book publisher, a movie studio, a fashion designer, a hardware maker, a cloud services provider, and far, far more (Quartz).
2. America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning. The industry’s response to that kind of doomsday description has included blaming the media for hyping the troubles of a few well-known chains as proof of a systemic meltdown. There is some truth to that. In the U.S., retailers announced more than 3,000 store openings in the first three quarters of this year (Bloomberg).
3. Foot In Mouth: 37 Quotes From Big Corporate Execs Who Laughed Off Disruption When It Hit. Research firm CB Insights compiled some of the most outrageous times bosses laughed in the face of disruption (CB Insights).
4. 'Justice League' Box Office Failure, DOJ Lawsuit Are Major Trouble For DCEU. Warner has to decide whether to keep spending money to fix an existing damaged brand in hopes they can salvage something to build a better future, or consider this a case of spending good money after bad and just focus on Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Shazam, and Batman for the next seven years and then start over fresh with a more solid longterm plan (Forbes).