Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Quirky is disrupting incumbents in consumer product design and innovation, Local Motors in the automobile business, Relay Rides in car rentals and Kickstarter and AngelList in the financial sector. Many of these dinosaurs – agencies in particular — seemed a bit panicked about being disintermediated. Take more control.

Marketing 8

Marketing Disintermediation Hotels Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Now that cultural content could go directly to the consumer, "disintermediation" was inevitable. They have never been as quick to press as newspaper or magazines nor as agile as television. Innovation is suppressed. In the movie world, not so much. The bricks and mortar channel survived relatively intact.

Film 8

Film Disintermediation Budgeting Marketing 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? While they are focused on optimization, their shareholders continue to demand that they pay out greater dividends or engage in larger share buy backs instead of investing their profits for future innovation. Own and disintermediate the customer relationship.

Disintermediation 130

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130