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The rise and rise of Entrepreneurs

Matthew Griffin

When I talk to clients about disruption and how the future is already fundamentally changing the paradigms of business I talk to them about the ants but I get them to imagine the people are all Entrepreneurs with a common purpose to create the next big business or industry. Disruption is now closer to your door than it’s ever been before.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Their choices included fighting Samsung for market share with all of the downstream implications that that would undoubtedly have on their revenues, margins and share price, alternatively they could work diligently to innovate new products for the mass market or they could choose to do both. __. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn .

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The secrets behind building a Unicorn

Matthew Griffin

The billion dollar startup was once the stuff of myth but now they’re everywhere, backed by a bull market and founded on new, disruptive digital technologies and business models which make their speed of operation, rate of innovation and reach that much greater.

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Have the Banks already been Disrupted?

Matthew Griffin

“Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated. Every industry is undergoing some level of disruption and for some its more extreme and happening faster than others. Conclusion. Click and Connect with the Author: LinkedIn. mgriffin_uk. +44 44 (0) 7957 456194.

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Banks: Too large to fail, easy to Disrupt

Matthew Griffin

In 2008 banks were considered to big to fail but seven years on it’s looking increasingly likely that they’re not too big to disrupt. Technology is having a democratising effect on Entrepreneurship – it’s lowered the bar to entry and it’s shifted the power away from the corporations and into the hands of the individual.

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The death of the 20th Century corporation

Matthew Griffin

If you step back thirty years it would be hard to see how anything could usurp or upend any of the world’s largest corporations but today every single one of them from Boeing, GM and IBM to AT&T, Citi and Sears are having to pivot their businesses and find new ways to adapt to the increasing amount of disruption undermining their businesses.

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The Banks Guide to scouting Fintech

Matthew Griffin

If their goal is to discover new interesting incremental innovations that will compliment their existing businesses then this approach could be considered sensible but if their objective is to either avoid being disrupted, or to disrupt then it’s unlikely that it will ever produce the results they crave. mgriffin_uk. +44