Recommended articles: disruptive innovation
Four recommended articles to read this weekend about disruptive innovation: 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 ). 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 ). Foot In Mouth: 37 Quotes From Big Corp