Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. An edited version of our conversation follows. Insight Center.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

An agency used to act as the executional arm of the marketing department. How do agencies ensure their future by being able to help brands sell more and build stronger loyalty in such a disrupted and disintermediated world, where every individual is consuming so much media from so many different channels? So, now what?

Marketing 10

Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

In the sporting goods industry, Nike has created the Nike+ running community while UnderArmour is developing an owned media strategy around its recent acquisition of MapMyFitness. It is much easier to create an ad campaign, make a media buy, refresh your web site, or execute a PR program.

Media 8

Media B2B Disintermediation Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Executives should also be wary of how AI increases the dangers of brand disintermediation. Studying those deployments led to several insights around three new types of decisions executives face at the intersection of technology, personality, and strategy. In Hong Kong Hanson Robotics is developing robots with human features.

Brand 11

Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Experience: Buyers use a solution, increasingly in pilots or proof of concepts, and develop perceptions about its value based on that usage. Specious talk about disintermediation of salespeople obscures the real issues facing firms. The marketing–sales relationship now tops the agenda of concerns in a survey of B2B executives.

B2B 8

B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The big retailers are getting squeezed and disintermediated at both ends. Companies that are still talking about digital transformation rather than executing it at scale are frankly like people who are standing around a swimming pool debating how to learn to swim as a tsunami is approaching.

Retail 8

Retail Technology Content Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Our audience was composed of C-level digital executives from nearly a hundred major media brands. Amazon's widget that makes it easy to shop from inside Facebook reveals one way this oligopoly will become increasingly interconnected, while disintermediating as many others as it can.

CPA 15

CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

Own and disintermediate the customer relationship. This disintermediation of the customer account control is a hallmark of digital giants. . This enables organizations to develop a competitive advantage. Facebook took 17 years and Bitcoin took only 12 years to achieve this milestone. Compete for data supremacy.

Disintermediation 130

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