Quotes About Disruption

it means that disruptive technologies that may underperform today, relative to what users in the market demand, may be fully performance-competitive in that same market tomorrow.

If you think of the world without people it's about the most perfect thing there ever is. It's all balanced and shit. But then come the people, and they fuck it up. It's like you got Aretha Franklin in your bedroom and she's just giving it her all, she's singing just for you, she's on fire...and then all of a sudden out pops Barry Manilow from behind the curtains.

If you think of the world without people it's about the most perfect thing there ever is. It's all balanced and shit. But then come the people, and they fuck it up.

a, pour chacun de nous, de certains parallélismes entre notre intelligence, nos moeurs et notre caractère, qui se développent sans discontinuité, et ne se rompent qu'aux grandes perturbations de la vie.

With some exceptions, the enemies of the future aim their attacks not at creativity itself but at the dynamic processes through which it is carried.

To upset everything every 3 or 4 years is my notion of a happy life.

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings.

I felt my life needed a shake-up.

Blue ocean strategists do not seek to beat the competition. Instead they aim to make the competition irrelevant.

Value without innovation tends to focus on value creation on an incremental scale, something that improves value but is not sufficient to make you stand out in the marketplace.

Companies should strive to make the competition irrelevant by offering buyers a leap in value.

To stand apart in these overcrowded markets, you need to be creative through value innovation.

Los innovadores de valor buscan ideas de éxito y saltos sustanciales en valor, sin que les importe demasiado cómo le va al sector.

There are two ways to create blue oceans. In a few cases, companies can give rise to completely new industries, as eBay did with the online auction industry. But in most cases, a blue ocean is created from within a red ocean when a company alters the boundaries of an existing industry.

What we look for determines what we see. When we assume that the only way we can create a new market is by disrupting an old one, opportunities for nondisruptive creation can be easily missed. People tend to focus their attention on the core of existing markets and what it would take to disrupt the existing order. This narrows their vision and blinds them to the wealth of nondisruptive market-creating moves they could make.

Red oceans may not be the paths to future profitable growth, but they feel comfortable to people and may have even served an organization well until now, so why rock the boat?

to win in the future, companies must stop competing with each other. The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.

blue oceans were seldom the result of technological innovation per se;

Blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition by creating uncontested market space that makes the competition irrelevant.

No, I'm talking about you, Nathan. What right did you have to storm into my life and mess everything up?

Because when the law implicitly or explicitly limits internal competition and bars new entrants, businesses have little, if any, incentive to innovate. As a result, regulated businesses—which include public utilities, air travel, defense, health care, and food and drugs—have fallen dangerously far behind in adopting exponential technologies. Once the disruptors do find a way in, collapse is that much more sudden.

Under these conditions you can't win simply by making your current strategy more disciplined. Pulling back to focus on your best customers or delivering higher quality or a lower price will buy you only a little time, if any. More rigorous strategic focus just blinds you to the next wave of disruption coming at you from the top, bottom, and sides.

What seems to matter most to Larry Kramer is the incessant disruption of business as usual, the refusal to be silent or polite. This refusal is praiseworthy.