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Disruptive Innovation: Product versus Platform
Akshay Nirmal, Business Consultant, Australia, Premium Member
DISRUPTIVE PLATFORMS often have a bigger impact than disruptive products. Some examples:
- Uber owns no vehicle, but is now the largest taxi company in the world.
- Alibaba has no inventory, but is yet the biggest world retailer.
- AirBnB owns no real estate, and yet became the biggest provider of accommodation.
 Unlike disruptive products, low-end disruptive platforms can change the dynamic of an entire industry. It is more difficult for incumbents to respond to disruptive platforms than to disruptive products. The massive number of people attracted to platforms makes it difficult for incumbents to respond to them.
While DISRUPTIVE PRODUCTS offer new options to buy, disruptive platforms cause societal shifts. They have major effects on people’s lives, how they interact and how they ...
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Platform Disruptor: Google
Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands Google owned no magazine, radio/TV station, but is yet now by far the world's biggest advertising company....
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Disruptive Platforms and Pipes
Rick Mueller, Professor, United States, SIG Leader There's been a lot of discussion on platforms, the most pertinent among which compare them to pipes. PIPES are the traditional value add orientation w...
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Platform Disrutive Food Delivery
Hamza E. M. Salih, Sudan, Premium Member All over the world including in Cairo you find so many food delivery services having no restaurants and sometimes even no vehicles to deliver t...
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Disruptive Platforms
Osungbadegun Isaac Tayo, Business Consultant, Nigeria, Member There has been much disruptive innovation in the banking sector in Nigeria, with the advent of USSD code it is possible to carry out banking transacti...
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M-Pesa in Kenya
Sanjay Verma, Business, Kenya, Member I live in Kenya. M-Pesa, a mobile money transfer platform is so successful here that we cannot imagine our daily lives without M-Pesa!
A t...
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Benefits of Disruptive Platforms
KOEHL Maryse, Professor, France, Member Platforms create a new type of distribution, satisfy new needs of customers and bring a break in the processes of selling of services. They modify the...
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Worldwide Sales Via Internet
Fred Rivera, Student (University), Peru, Member Anyone can sell anything worldwide, without having a store or supplies.
That's why these platforms are used by entrepreneurs to satisfy the deman...
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IoT & Blockchains Next
Joanne Friedman, CEO, Canada, Member I think we have to be a bit careful about the use of the word "platform" and its definition.
If Uber is a platform, then so is Lyft, and any othe...
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Disruptive Legal Platform
muthini, Accountant, Kenya, Member In the US, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get a legal advice within seconds with 90% accuracy compared to...
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No Lawyers Anymore?
Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member @ Muthini: The problem with systems like Watson is that even a correct answer is not enough if you can't interpret ...
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Disruptive Platforms
Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom, Member I would consider that 'platforms' of their nature are disruptive, in that they disrupt the 'working mechanism', 'the way' something was always done. S...
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