Marc Dowd
Marc is a specialist in disruptive innovation and carries out research on how technology trends are changing the world. Marc is the Founder of PathFinder4 and Manage Disruption Limited and previously spent nine years as the EMEA Principal Advisor to C-level executives for Forrester Research.
We live in an age where disruption is the new normal. It is inevitable. It is hard to think of an industry that is not being disrupted by new thinking and new technology – generally a combination of the two. The question is what you do about it. Many companies, large ones in particular, believe […]
Did you know that nearly half of all UK business leaders think their business model will cease to exist within the next five years? In this article we take an in-depth insight into what that means for legal advisors to those organisations. If you believe that your business will be unaffected, you are more than […]
We are entering an age of extreme change characterised by changing business models, emerging technologies and the increasing power of the consumer. Smaller companies, such as Uber and AirBnB in their early days, seemingly rise out of nowhere and cause mayhem in well-established industries. The velocity, scope, and nature of the disruptions that we are […]
I talk a lot about disruption and disruptive innovation. Often it is hard to tell the difference between them. To my mind there are three types of innovation that businesses commonly use. In this video I briefly describe all three. The three types All three types of innovation are important for the profitability of a […]
Many people don’t realise how important it is to be disruptive. In my time with large companies I am often struck how most of them are so focused on the process of their business. So much so that it almost seems that the processes have always existed. That the company was never a start-up – that they had […]
It seems like an age ago but soon after I joined Forrester Research in 2006 I noticed something odd. My job then was the personal advisor to leaders of technology organisations. I helped them make use of the research that Forrester published. What I noticed early on was that there was a strong theme about the role of […]
The reason why people don’t do many of the things they set out to do is what is nowadays called ‘friction.’ In the good old days it would more likely have been called ‘laziness.’ Friction is the gap between intention and action caused by it being difficult to do, or difficult to remember to do. […]
I recently listened to/read this article about how the value of taxi driver medallions is falling away to nothing from all-time highs of $1m in 2014. Essentially the medallions that once symbolized the right to be an accredited taxi driver are becoming worthless because there is no longer a value in being accredited. When I was training to be […]
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