Is there a future for the middleman The changes brought by the WWW In the 90s, the Internet enabled immediate and direct contact between millions of people, eliminated geographic distances, and created a new ‘global village’. It also marked the beginning of the era of disintermediation. The initial industry shakers The sectors impacted first were […]
Small businesses will fuel the economic engine of the future Personal computers and the Internet laid the groundwork for new businesses and disruptive business models in the last decade of the 20th century. The growing digital infrastructure reduced the costs of starting and running a small business and opened new markets and industries to small […]
Entrepreneurship going mainstream Often, discussion about entrepreneurship tends to slip towards large rounds of financing, blockbuster IPOs, and college dropout millionaires. In the last 10 years, the success of Facebook, Google, Twitter and Whatsapp have caught the imagination of our generation and made entrepreneurs superstars. Now, with the increase in the number of startups, we […]
The future Corporations will be shape-shifters A quarter of a century ago IBM was at the pinnacle of success, riding on their success of practically inventing general-purpose computing for business. They boasted of having helped put a man on the moon and counted many Nobel Laureates among their researchers. This evidently changed in 1993 when […]
Management’s three eras: A brief history – Rita McGrath (July 30, 2014) Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state. Organisations still emphasise exploitation of existing advantages, driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders, with terrible consequences – […]
