incumbents innovation technology 
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market.
TechCrunch
JUNE 23, 2022
For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. For these industries, digital enablers, rather than disruptors, constitute the next wave of supply chain innovation.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. We started with the easiest problem that technology could attempt to solve. LESSON: Technology solves silicon-intensive problems and humans solve judgment-intensive ones. Ultimately, a little bit of fear breeds innovation.
500
OCTOBER 25, 2019
In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order. Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2015
And let’s say this – they use zero technology today and I have yet to meet a single person who loves their self-storage provider. Innovation. Most customers won’t drive more than a few miles to a self storage unit making the incumbents essentially local retail businesses. And they have. Of course they are.
American Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. The technology-driven financing decisions benefit women and minorities who have experienced discrimination in the past when borrowing.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Incumbents have lept onto advances in generative machine learning more aggressively than any trend in recent technology history. But generative ML differs because incumbents are pushing the envelope. Over the past decade, the most advanced machine learning systems have often been built inside the largest technology companies.
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