So now everyone knows that digital technology creates disruption within industries.  Yawn.  What’s interesting now are the increasingly blurred lines between industries.  Drawing industry boundaries has always been somewhat subjective, but rapid technology advances are making it nearly impossible now (and increasingly irrelevant).  Competition across industries (and by extension – convergence of previously distinct industries) […]

By now we all know: there are many ways digital technology can disrupt business models and long-stable patterns of industry competition.  Understandably, managers trying to get ahead of the change and help their companies survive tend to view their own particular situations as uniquely stressful and intractable. But despite all the rapid change, certain patterns […]