Attending IBM’s Partnerworld Leadership Conference, I have been immersed in IBM plans for transforming itself based on a vision of a rapidly changing world for IBMÂ itself and its clients. The characterization… Read more »
Like BuzzFeed, Vice Media often gets dismissed as a joke, or something not worth paying attention to — but it is hiring hundreds of journalists, and is part of the future… Read more »
Several media industry executives argue that the disruption of the newspaper industry was inevitable, and that there was nothing much those in charge of the business could have done to prevent… Read more »
Newspaper companies might not want to think of their business as being similar to industrial manufacturing like the car industry, but in many ways it is — and they can learn… Read more »
Back from near-death, AOL feels vindicated that it bet on a content strategy when everyone else was turning to platforms and technology. CEO Tim Armstrong shared some thoughts on content, hyper-local… Read more »
Existing players in an industry almost always fail to appreciate how disruption will affect them or understand how to adapt to it, Harvard professor Clay Christensen says, and media companies are… Read more »
According to Harvard business professor and best-selling author Clay Christensen, the disruptive effects of the web are being felt the most by the media and advertising industries, but the education business… Read more »
While the overwhelming majority of projects on crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter are launched by individuals or small teams trying to convert an idea into reality, some established companies are using crowdsourcing… Read more »
Research by the Pew Center has turned up several examples of newspapers that seem to have reversed the declining revenue most of the industry is suffering from, although the methods they… Read more »
Like other industries that have been disrupted by new forms of competition, Clay Christensen says that newspapers were almost incapable of taking the steps they needed to take — even long… Read more »