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When Digital Disruption Strikes:
How Can Incumbents Respond?
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Volatility and Corporate Darwinism
Since 2000, 52% of
companies in the
Fortune 500 have either
gone bankrupt, been
acquired or ceased
to exist.
Figure 1: Venture Capital Investments in Silicon Valley, 1995-Q3 2014 ($ Billions)
Source: NVCA, “National Venture Capital Association Yearbook”, 2014
Since 2000, 52% of companies in the
Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt,
been acquired or ceased to exist1. US
corporations in the S&P 500 in 1958
remained in the index for an average of 61
years. By 1980, the average tenure of an
S&P 500 firm was 25 years, and by 2011
that average shortened to 18 years based
on seven-year rolling averages2. These
are challenging times for companies as
the speed, volume and complexity of
change intensify.
While there are several reasons for
companies vanishing from the radar or
going bankrupt, technology disruptions
are playing a big part in amplifying this
development. One critical manifestation
of this heightened volatility is the
emergence of technology-driven startups
across multiple sectors. Venture funding
to startups is at historic highs. In just one
startup hotspot, Silicon Valley, venture
capital investment in the first three-
quarters of 2014 was around $17 billion,
a figure that is only surpassed by the peak
of the dotcom era in 2000 (see Figure 1).
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Financial
downturn
Till Q3 2014
Digital innovation is shaking the core
of every industry and incumbents are
struggling to respond. The emergence
of startups such as Uber – which disrupt
entire sectors with their agile, innovative
business models – is worrying traditional
incumbents. In recent research by
GE, two-thirds of respondents agreed
that businesses have to encourage
creative behaviors and must disrupt
their internal processes in order to do
so3
. What does a successful strategy for
responding to disruption look like? How
fast have companies responded to digital
disruptions? To understand more about
how traditional incumbents respond to
digital disruption, we conducted research
spanning 100+ companies (see research
methodology at the end of the article).
In most organizations,
decision cycles lag
technology cycles.
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a
Adapted from Steven Sinofsky, Board Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; http://recode.net/2014/01/06/the-four-stages-of-disruption-2/.
b
A response is an action taken specifically to ward off the disruption/disruptive startup, such as the acquisition of the disruptor or the development of a new business model.
Figure 2: Response of Incumbents to Digital Disruptions by Stage
Source: N=100
Source: Capgemini Consulting Analysis
A response is an action taken specifically to ward off the disruption/disruptive startup, such as the acquisition of the disruptor or the development of a new business model.
26%
36%
38%
Onset Spread Mainstream Adoption
74%
Nearly 74% of
companies responded to
digital disruptions only
after the second year of
their occurrence.
Three Quarters of
Incumbents Responded
Late to Digital Disruptions
There are three broad and linear stages
to disruptiona
. The first stage, Onset, is
typically within the first year of the arrival
of disruption. That is marked by the
entry of a disruptive startup that either
brings forth a new technology, or a new
technology-enabled business model. The
next stage, Spread, typically takes place
two or three years post the arrival of a
disruptive technology/company. In this
stage, the main disruptor starts growing
in popularity, and there are multiple me-
too services that mimic the disruptor.
The final stage – Mainstream Adoption
– is when the disruption reaches large-
scale acceptance and is over four years
from its arrival.
In the Silicon Valley,
venture capital
investment in the first
three-quarters of 2014
was only surpassed by
the peak of the dotcom
era in 2000.
Our research found that nearly 74%
of companies responded to digital
disruptions only after the second year
of their occurrence. Worryingly, over
38% of incumbents respondedb
to the
emergence of a disruptive company
after the fourth year. This is the period
when the disruption starts to move more
mainstream (see Figure 2). Our research
also showed that the vast majority
of companies that went bankrupt
responded only when the digital
disruption had already firmly taken root.
4 4
In most organizations, decision cycles lag
technology cycles. However, that is not
the only reason why incumbents struggle
to respond to digital disruptions. We found
five root causes behind incumbents’ slow
responses.
Slow Decision Cycle
Old-school approaches to designing
change – such as annual strategy
meetings – are too cumbersome for
a non-linear, fast-paced digital world.
Technology cycles are becoming shorter
than corporate decision cycles4 as
technology progression accelerates.
Organizations are finding it increasingly
hardtomatchthepaceofrapidtechnology
changes. Thirty-seven percent of
respondents in a global survey of industry
executives reported being worried that
their organizations would not be able to
keep pace with technology changes and
as a result, lose their competitive edge5.
Complacency about Existing
Business Models
One of the biggest challenges in
responding to disruption is complacency.
When disruption strikes, companies find
it difficult to keep pace with the fast-
moving and changing world as they
cling on to the old successful business
model. One key reason for organizations
becoming complacent is management
inertia – failure to sense the need to
change. INSEAD’s Professor Serguei
Netessine believes that organizations do
not ask enough hard questions of their
business models. As he explains: “I like
to compare it to financial auditing, which
every organization does every year, many
times. Often, a public company will do
it once a quarter. But then you ask the
same company how often [it examines]
its own business models, they’ll tell you,
‘Well, I don’t know. Twenty years ago?
Thirty years ago?’”6.
One key reason
for organizations
becoming complacent is
management inertia –
failure to sense the need
to change.
There are many examples of such
complacency. Consider the case of RIM/
BlackBerry. For years, BlackBerry was
the product leader in enabling secure
push mail on mobile phones, earning
a committed following with corporate
users. However, while RIM continued
to focus on its lead product, Apple was
reinventing what a mobile phone could be.
Apple’s iPhone married email functionality
to tools that up until then were only
possible on a PC. BlackBerry’s core
users began to migrate in droves. RIM
believed its dominance of the enterprise
market was impregnable, but trends
such as Bring Your Own Device and the
growth of smartphones caused massive
challenges. It saw its market share of
the smartphone OS market reduce from
a high of 20% in Q1 2009 to as low as
0.8% in Q3 of 20147.
Fear of Cannibalizing
Existing Business
The threat of cannibalizing existing
business can prevent incumbents from
going to market with innovative offerings.
Take the case of Kodak. Kodak, an
innovator in photography, invented the
world’s first digital camera in 1975.
Despite its solid lead in the film business,
it failed. Kodak had most of the patents for
the digital photography technology, but
did not commercialize them aggressively
as it feared cannibalization of its film
business. Instead, other firms licensed
Kodak’s technology and commercialized
it. This restricted Kodak from leading the
digital camera race8. As Rita McGrath,
professor at Columbia Business School
says, “Kodak continued to focus and
invest in film-based technologies in
the 1980s and 1990s, while Fuji was
systematically extracting itself from film-
based photography and shifting massive
resources, both financial and human, to
the new and unproven digital technology.
By 2003, Fujifilm had 5,000 digital
processing labs in chains stores through
the U.S. At that time, Kodak had less than
1009.”
A company that has embraced
cannibalization as a very successful
business strategy is Apple. The company
has launched a variety of products (iPod,
iPhone, iPad) that have cannibalized one
another. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook explains,
“Our core philosophy is to never fear
cannibalization. If we don’t do it, someone
else will10
.”
Why Incumbents Struggle to Respond to
Digital Disruptions
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Figure 3: Major Causes Behind Incumbents’ Slow Responses
Source: Capgemini Consulting Analysis
Kodak had most of
the patents for the
digital photography
technology, but did not
commercialize them
aggressively as it feared
cannibalization of its
film business.
Complacency
Fear of
Cannibalization
Lower Margins
in the
Transition
Resources Unaligned to
Opportunities
Slow Decision
Cycle
Slow Reaction to
Digital Disruption
Lower Margins in the Transition
In industries where digital business has
lower margin than traditional business,
taking the digital path is often perceived
as a significant bet on the company’s
future revenues. Incumbents hesitate to
take the plunge. The newspaper industry,
for example, has largely depended on
advertising revenue to subsidize low
subscription revenues. To transition to
digital, where advertising rates are a
fraction of what they are on print, has a
significant impact on profitability. This
can blind management to the potential
opportunities of digital for new business
models and sources of revenue.
One company that has successfully
tackled this challenge is the Financial
Times. Today, over two-thirds of the FT’s
audience is online. Mobile readership
drives 50% of total traffic and 20% of
digital subscriptions. The total circulation,
across print and online, for the paper at
the end of Q3 2014 was 690,000, the
highest in its 126-year history. One key
reason for this, according to its manager
of marketing and audience development,
is that the FT thinks of itself as “a premium
brand with high quality content”, and not
as a newspaper11
.
Key Resources Unaligned to
Opportunities
In most organizations, people are treated
as resources tied to divisions, products,
services and business units. Managers
are typically reluctant to let go of resources
assigned to them for fear of any potential
diminishing of their authority. Similarly,
organizations tend to try and retro-fit new
opportunities into existing organizational
structures. These political challenges
pose significant hurdles when it comes
to digital disruptions that, more often than
not, cut across the entire organization.
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48% of successful
companies relied on
hiring specialist digital
talent in the wake of a
disruption.
32% of successful
companies launched
services that mimicked
those of a disruptive
competitor.
We studied the strategies adopted by
organizations that have successfully
withstood digital disruptions (see research
methodology at the end of the article)c
.
We found four dominant responses to
disruptions adopted by these organizations:
acquiring digital talent, mimicking the
competition, acquiring the disruptor/
competitor and taking a judicial approach.
Most successful companies adopt a
combination of these responses to ensure
a robust and well-rounded approach. In this
section, we examine each of these winning
responses in detail.
Acquiring Digital Talent Brings in
Fresh Thinking
Often, incumbents resort to acquiring
select digital talent so they can start to
build more coherent responses in-house.
Travel agent Thomas Cook was one of
the early companies to be disrupted by
the advent of online booking sites. The
company, as part of its multi-pronged
approach to this digital disruption, hired
a series of executives with backgrounds
in digital technology as digital ‘gurus’ to
join its Digital Advisory Board12
. These
executives were specialists in areas such
as innovation management, customer
experience management, user interface
design and intelligent systems13
. In
our research, we found that 48% of
successful companies relied on hiring
specialist digital talent in the wake of a
disruption (see Figure 4).
Mimicking Enables Incumbents to
Have a Ready Offering
We found that 32% of successful
companies launched services that
mimicked those of a disruptive competitor
(see Figure 4). In some cases, the
incumbent can throw significant resources
at creating competing solutions. For
instance, even though Apple’s iPod,
iPhone and iPad are known to be path-
breaking and breakthrough innovations,
they were not the first of their kinds. A
number of digital music players existed
before the iPod was launched14
. Similarly,
a number of tablet PCs were launched
in the 1990s and early 2000s, but it
was the entry of the Apple iPad in 2010
that sent the tablet market soaring15
.
Apple’s focus on creating products that
dramatically improve on competing
offerings from disruptors in its industry
has enabled it to continually stay ahead
of competition.
Acquisitions Help Incumbents
Compete and Scale-Up
A common response to disruption is to
acquire one of the leading disruptors. Our
research found that 36% of successful
companies relied on acquiring companies
as a tactic to access disruptive
technology/ innovation (see Figure 4).
Once it has completed an acquisition, the
incumbent might either choose to absorb
the disruptor in its operations or continue
with business-as-usual.
c
Successful companies are those that have
maintained and/or improved their market position
32% of successful
companies have resorted
to using the legal
route to slowing down
disruption.
Successful Responses to Digital Disruptions
An example of the former category is
Walmart.Thecompany,throughitsWalmart
Labs arm, has over the years acquired
multiple startups in innovative fields and
subsequently folded the teams into their
operations. Luvocracy is an example. The
startup was an online community of half a
million members that allows consumers to
discover and buy products recommended
by other people. Walmart subsequently
closed the service and absorbed its key
technologies into existing and proposed
Walmart platforms16
.
In other instances, the acquirer allows
the innovator to continue to do business
without much interference. For instance,
car sharing is disruptive to car rental firms
such as Avis and Hertz. Realizing this, Avis
paid over $500 million to buy Zipcar, a
rent-by-the-hour startup17
. The company
continues to operate independently and
leverages Avis’ global network.
Another key driver for acquisitions is
consolidation, which gives the incumbent
more scale to fight back. The music
industry, which suffered significant
disruption from digital music, is a good
example. The six major labels that existed
pre-digital have now become three,
with the healthier labels acquiring their
struggling brethren. By doing so, these
labels have increased scale, expanded
their rosters of top-selling artists and
increased their holdings of recording and
publishing copyrights.
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Over the years Walmart
has acquired multiple
startups in innovative
fields and subsequently
folded the teams into
their operations.
Ultimately, if the
disruptive technology
has real customer value,
the legal route has the
effect of delaying the
disruptor development
but it rarely stops the
technology development
over time.
A Judicial Approach Slows
Down Disruptors
Digital technologies, because they
are so new, are often not covered in
existing regulatory legislation and base
their competitive model on a disruptive
approach that was not anticipated
by policy-makers. Incumbents can
thereby respond by suing disruptive
startups, citing unfair advantage under
the regulatory framework that governs
their industry. Other legal concerns
that incumbents typically raise against
startups include the evasion of taxes, and
the exposure of consumers to new risks
due to disruptive platforms. Our research
found that over 32% of successful
companies have resorted to using the
legal route to slowing down disruption
(see Figure 4).
Aereo, for example, was a disruptor
that offered live-streams of broadcast
TV over the Internet. Since traditional
broadcasters and distributors were cut-
off from any monetization opportunities
in this model, they sued Aereo in the US
courts. The case went all the way to the
Supreme Court, which ruled that Aereo
was ultimately in violation of existing
regulation. The company subsequently
went into bankruptcy and shut down18
.
Similarly, Uber, the taxi-services app, has
seen significant pushback from local taxi
services in many cities across the world.
In Spain, for instance, a local court ruled
that Uber was illegal and Uber had to
suspend its operations in the country.
Similarly, the company has also been
sued or legally questioned in several US
states including California, Colorado,
Portland and Oregon19
. However, the
startup has only been going from strength
to strength. It recently raised a billion
dollars in venture capital and is valued at
over $40 billion20
.
Ultimately, if the disruptive technology
has real customer value, the legal route
has the effect of delaying the disruptor
development but it rarely stops the
technology development over time.
Our research found that the number
of companies taking the judicial route
has increased significantly. While 8% of
incumbents used this approach over the
2000-2010 period, in the 2010-2013
period, it has risen to 27%.
Establishing the Right Mix
of Responses
Drawing lessons from incumbents that
have successfully tackled disruption –
retained their market position or have
improved it – can help organizations
establish the right mix of responses (see
Figure 4).
Successful companies have a relatively
even spread across different tactics. They
have acquired competition, hired digital
talent and gone down the legal route too.
Overall, the best approach is a balanced
one that uses a mix of tactics (see Figure
5 for a comparison).
Figure 4: Response Tactics of Successful Incumbents
Source: Capgemini Consulting, “Big Data Survey”, November 2014
Judicial Route
32%
36%
48%
Acquiring
Competition
Acquiring Digital
Talent
32%
Mimicking
Competition
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As the world
increasingly becomes
software-driven,
competitors will emerge
from adjacent industries
rather than just the
‘home’ industry of
the incumbent.
Making the Most of Digital Disruption
As technology cycles keep getting
shorter, disruptions will become more
prevalent. And as the world increasingly
becomes software-driven, competitors
will emerge from adjacent industries
rather than just the ‘home’ industry of
the incumbent. Does this spell the end
of the centuries-old corporation? Not
necessarily. Incumbents need to position
digital innovation at the heart of their
business. To achieve this, they can take
a series of practical steps.
Proactively Identify Customer
Pain Points
One of the biggest entry points that
disruptive startups take is to identify
customer pain points. Resolving these
customer pain points then becomes
the unique selling proposition of the
disruptor. Startups such as Airbnb, Uber
and Lending Club, which are based on
a peer-to-peer economy, have been
successful because they have identified
gaps in what customers want and what
incumbents provide. Rachel Botsman,
leading expert on the collaborative
economy, highlights how these startups
disrupt existing markets by solving real
customer problems, “Many collaborative
startups find ways to simplify complex
and frustrating customer experiences.
For example, Uber and Lyft have
simplified an otherwise complex and
unreliable experience for customers of
taxi services21
.” While some incumbents
react to the emergence of the pain point
by denying its importance, the market has
been created.
Question the Status Quo and
Constantly Audit Your
Business Model
As INSEAD’s Serguei Netessine explains,
“Business models and the advantages
that flow from them are transient. What
is a competitive strength today might be
a burden tomorrow22.” It is vital for a
company to keep questioning the status
quo. Blockbuster’s innovative idea of
sharing revenues with the studios, instead
of paying the studio for each product,
revolutionized the video and DVD rental
market. Blockbuster’s market share
skyrocketed. However, they failed to
look ahead and anticipate the impact of
streaming and eventually went bankrupt.
Netflix, on the other hand, thrived because
it adapted and actively cannibalized
its DVD business. Organizations will
constantly have to question the status
quo and pose ‘what-if’ questions of their
core operating model.
Many incumbents typically stick to the
same strategy playbook that has served
them for years. However, the pace of
technological change has made this
approach dangerous. Incumbents need
to constantly revisit their business model
to ensure it is not outdated.
Reorganize Resource Allocation
around Opportunities
Most organizations are typically
organized by business units or market
units. Resources are subsequently tied
into what are in reality independent
fiefdoms. Responding to digital
disruptions requires that organizations
move to a resource allocation that is
centrally governed and organized around
opportunities, not existing structures. As
Columbia Professor Rita McGrath says,
“In companies [that have been able to
survive disruptions], employees tend to
worry less about organizational roles and
structures.23
”
Incumbents need to
constantly revisit their
business model to
ensure it is
not outdated.
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Responding to digital
disruptions requires
that organizations move
to a resource allocation
that is centrally
governed and organized
around opportunities,
not existing structures.
Response to Digital
Disruption
Pros Cons
Acquiring Disruptor/
Competition
 Enables a certain level of ‘control’
over spread of disruption
 Gives the incumbent a head-start
over its competition
 Does not rule out the possibility of other “me-too”
services that operate like the acquired disruptor
 Requires large investments that may be hard to justify
to investors
Acquiring Digital Talent
 Brings in fresh thinking into the
company
 A more robust approach that
prepares the incumbent for future
disruptions
 Hard to hire certain digital skills, e.g. analytics
 Requires a dedicated strategy to attract and retain
digital talent
Mimicking Competition
 Ensures incumbent has offerings
matching the disruptor
 Helps reduce customer churn in the
short-term
 Risk of comparison with disruptors and falling short of
customers expectations
 Challenges of replicating a true disruptor within
existing legacy operations
Judicial Approach
 Allows incumbents to gain time to
prepare a more coherent response
 Likely to antagonize existing/prospective customers
Figure 5: Pros and Cons of Response Types
Source: Capgemini Consulting Analysis
Move to an Open Innovation Model
Large companies need to learn to spot
the early warning signs of disruption to
avoid being surprised by their impact at
a later stage. This requires a shift to an
open innovation model that allows them
to stay tuned to sources of disruptive
innovation. An open innovation model
entails engaging closely with the startup
ecosystem by setting up innovation labs
and incubators and partnering with startup
accelerators. As David Cohen, founder
of leading startup accelerator Techstars
says, “Being around the disruption at the
early stages – and spotting it before others
do – gives you a competitive advantage
and you can help the startup grow at the
same time24
.”
Digital disruptions are a fact of economic
life in the twenty-first century. New
digital technologies do not care for
organizational history or tradition. In fact,
they sweep aside existing approaches
and models, creating a new world order.
Digital disruptions are in many ways a
very democratic force and they can just
as well originate within a two-person
startup as they can in a $100 billion
organization. While that prospect might
make many incumbents feel vulnerable
and uncomfortable, the secret is to see it
as an opportunity.
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Research Methodology
We conducted a comprehensive study of 100 leading companies in North America and Europe to understand
how they negotiate digital disruption. For our study, we selected 10 leading players across 10 industry groups that
have been digitally disrupted. The industry groups included Public Transport, Healthcare, Hospitality, Education,
Publishing, News and Media, Photography, Music, Banking and Travel. All of these industries were carefully selected
on the basis of disruption witnessed at various stages. The incumbents that we studied have been leading players
in these industries for over two decades.
In our research, 84 companies had been successful in withstanding digital disruptions – success implies that they
have maintained and/ or improved their market position – while 16 had been unsuccessful – these are companies
that went bankrupt. Our focus was to understand the various strategies used by successful incumbents to respond
to digital disruptions.
How do you spot disruptions?
 We actively look out for new technologies that can impact our industry
 We gain insights into customer behavior by actively monitoring sentiment on social media sites, understanding emerging
behavior of millennials and tracking new startups globally
 We have a good view of our customer’s pain points
 We have a set of leading indicators (patent filings, consumer behavior etc) that we track to foresee disruptions
How do you rate your organization’s agility in responding to disruptions?
 Our leadership team has a digital vision that encompasses all organizational units
 We can quickly pull together pilots based on new technologies and get them off the ground
 We are ready to buy a disruptor if it makes strategic sense
 We have a high-level roadmap for digital transformation, which is flexible based on changing market scenarios
 We revisit our business model regularly
What is your approach to scouting for opportunities outside of your business?
 We have a ‘labs’ setup where we encourage investments in emerging technologies and trends
 We invest our time and effort in hiring and nurturing digital skills
 We have partnered with/ funded startups at various stages
 We encourage our partners/ customers to contribute to our product development process
Checklist: Are you in a Position to Successfully Negotiate Digital Disruption?
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References
1 Constellation Research, “Research Summary: Sneak Peeks From Constellation’s Futurist Framework
And 2014 Outlook On Digital Disruption”, February 2014
2 Innosight, “Creative Destruction Whips through Corporate America”, 2012
3 GE Ideas Lab, “Global Innovation Barometer”, 2014
4 Greg Satell, “Business Models and the Singularity”, May 2012
5 Economist Intelligence Unit, “Agent of change – The future of technology disruption in business”, 2012
6 INSEAD Knowledge, “Four Questions to Revolutionise Your Business Model”, July 2014
7 Source: IDC and Gartner, accessed through Statista.com
8 Innovate or die: Wisdom from Apple, Google and Toyota, TIME, Jan 2013
9 From IEDP Review of - Rita Gunther McGrath, “End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your
Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business”, April 2014
10 All Things Digital, “Apple CEO: Don’t Fear Cannibalization, Embrace It”, January 2013
11 Forbes, “Digital Transformation in Action at the Financial Times”, November 2014
12 Travel Weekly, “Thomas Cook appoints digital ‘gurus’ to add tech experience”, May 2014
13 Breakingtravelnews.com, “Thomas Cook appoints three digital experts to enhance tech experience”,
May 2014
14 Fastcodesign.com, “Apple’s Inspiration for the iPod? Bang & Olufsen, Not Braun”, November 2013
15 Techradar.com, “Meet the tablets that had to die before the iPad could succeed”, 2014
16 Marketwatch, “Wal-Mart buys another tech startup, Luvocracy — only to shut it down”, July 2014
17 Wall Street Journal, “Avis to Buy Car-Sharing Service Zipcar”, January 2013
18 TechCrunch, “Aereo Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy”, November 2014
19 BBC, “Uber under pressure as more bans and lawsuits loom”, December 2014
20 Wall Street Journal, “Uber Gets an Uber-Valuation”, June 2014
21 Capgemini Consulting Interview
22 HBR, “Amazon Constantly Audits its Business Model”, November 2013
23 Capgemini Consulting Interview
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When Digital Disruption Strikes: How Can Incumbents Respond?

  • 1. When Digital Disruption Strikes: How Can Incumbents Respond?
  • 2. 2 Volatility and Corporate Darwinism Since 2000, 52% of companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired or ceased to exist. Figure 1: Venture Capital Investments in Silicon Valley, 1995-Q3 2014 ($ Billions) Source: NVCA, “National Venture Capital Association Yearbook”, 2014 Since 2000, 52% of companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired or ceased to exist1. US corporations in the S&P 500 in 1958 remained in the index for an average of 61 years. By 1980, the average tenure of an S&P 500 firm was 25 years, and by 2011 that average shortened to 18 years based on seven-year rolling averages2. These are challenging times for companies as the speed, volume and complexity of change intensify. While there are several reasons for companies vanishing from the radar or going bankrupt, technology disruptions are playing a big part in amplifying this development. One critical manifestation of this heightened volatility is the emergence of technology-driven startups across multiple sectors. Venture funding to startups is at historic highs. In just one startup hotspot, Silicon Valley, venture capital investment in the first three- quarters of 2014 was around $17 billion, a figure that is only surpassed by the peak of the dotcom era in 2000 (see Figure 1). 1.81 3.37 4.63 5.88 17.79 33.40 12.67 7.26 6.73 8.00 8.13 9.77 11.55 11.53 8.29 9.39 12.17 11.15 12.42 16.96 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 Dotcom bust Financial downturn Till Q3 2014 Digital innovation is shaking the core of every industry and incumbents are struggling to respond. The emergence of startups such as Uber – which disrupt entire sectors with their agile, innovative business models – is worrying traditional incumbents. In recent research by GE, two-thirds of respondents agreed that businesses have to encourage creative behaviors and must disrupt their internal processes in order to do so3 . What does a successful strategy for responding to disruption look like? How fast have companies responded to digital disruptions? To understand more about how traditional incumbents respond to digital disruption, we conducted research spanning 100+ companies (see research methodology at the end of the article). In most organizations, decision cycles lag technology cycles.
  • 3. 3 a Adapted from Steven Sinofsky, Board Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; http://recode.net/2014/01/06/the-four-stages-of-disruption-2/. b A response is an action taken specifically to ward off the disruption/disruptive startup, such as the acquisition of the disruptor or the development of a new business model. Figure 2: Response of Incumbents to Digital Disruptions by Stage Source: N=100 Source: Capgemini Consulting Analysis A response is an action taken specifically to ward off the disruption/disruptive startup, such as the acquisition of the disruptor or the development of a new business model. 26% 36% 38% Onset Spread Mainstream Adoption 74% Nearly 74% of companies responded to digital disruptions only after the second year of their occurrence. Three Quarters of Incumbents Responded Late to Digital Disruptions There are three broad and linear stages to disruptiona . The first stage, Onset, is typically within the first year of the arrival of disruption. That is marked by the entry of a disruptive startup that either brings forth a new technology, or a new technology-enabled business model. The next stage, Spread, typically takes place two or three years post the arrival of a disruptive technology/company. In this stage, the main disruptor starts growing in popularity, and there are multiple me- too services that mimic the disruptor. The final stage – Mainstream Adoption – is when the disruption reaches large- scale acceptance and is over four years from its arrival. In the Silicon Valley, venture capital investment in the first three-quarters of 2014 was only surpassed by the peak of the dotcom era in 2000. Our research found that nearly 74% of companies responded to digital disruptions only after the second year of their occurrence. Worryingly, over 38% of incumbents respondedb to the emergence of a disruptive company after the fourth year. This is the period when the disruption starts to move more mainstream (see Figure 2). Our research also showed that the vast majority of companies that went bankrupt responded only when the digital disruption had already firmly taken root.
  • 4. 4 4 In most organizations, decision cycles lag technology cycles. However, that is not the only reason why incumbents struggle to respond to digital disruptions. We found five root causes behind incumbents’ slow responses. Slow Decision Cycle Old-school approaches to designing change – such as annual strategy meetings – are too cumbersome for a non-linear, fast-paced digital world. Technology cycles are becoming shorter than corporate decision cycles4 as technology progression accelerates. Organizations are finding it increasingly hardtomatchthepaceofrapidtechnology changes. Thirty-seven percent of respondents in a global survey of industry executives reported being worried that their organizations would not be able to keep pace with technology changes and as a result, lose their competitive edge5. Complacency about Existing Business Models One of the biggest challenges in responding to disruption is complacency. When disruption strikes, companies find it difficult to keep pace with the fast- moving and changing world as they cling on to the old successful business model. One key reason for organizations becoming complacent is management inertia – failure to sense the need to change. INSEAD’s Professor Serguei Netessine believes that organizations do not ask enough hard questions of their business models. As he explains: “I like to compare it to financial auditing, which every organization does every year, many times. Often, a public company will do it once a quarter. But then you ask the same company how often [it examines] its own business models, they’ll tell you, ‘Well, I don’t know. Twenty years ago? Thirty years ago?’”6. One key reason for organizations becoming complacent is management inertia – failure to sense the need to change. There are many examples of such complacency. Consider the case of RIM/ BlackBerry. For years, BlackBerry was the product leader in enabling secure push mail on mobile phones, earning a committed following with corporate users. However, while RIM continued to focus on its lead product, Apple was reinventing what a mobile phone could be. Apple’s iPhone married email functionality to tools that up until then were only possible on a PC. BlackBerry’s core users began to migrate in droves. RIM believed its dominance of the enterprise market was impregnable, but trends such as Bring Your Own Device and the growth of smartphones caused massive challenges. It saw its market share of the smartphone OS market reduce from a high of 20% in Q1 2009 to as low as 0.8% in Q3 of 20147. Fear of Cannibalizing Existing Business The threat of cannibalizing existing business can prevent incumbents from going to market with innovative offerings. Take the case of Kodak. Kodak, an innovator in photography, invented the world’s first digital camera in 1975. Despite its solid lead in the film business, it failed. Kodak had most of the patents for the digital photography technology, but did not commercialize them aggressively as it feared cannibalization of its film business. Instead, other firms licensed Kodak’s technology and commercialized it. This restricted Kodak from leading the digital camera race8. As Rita McGrath, professor at Columbia Business School says, “Kodak continued to focus and invest in film-based technologies in the 1980s and 1990s, while Fuji was systematically extracting itself from film- based photography and shifting massive resources, both financial and human, to the new and unproven digital technology. By 2003, Fujifilm had 5,000 digital processing labs in chains stores through the U.S. At that time, Kodak had less than 1009.” A company that has embraced cannibalization as a very successful business strategy is Apple. The company has launched a variety of products (iPod, iPhone, iPad) that have cannibalized one another. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook explains, “Our core philosophy is to never fear cannibalization. If we don’t do it, someone else will10 .” Why Incumbents Struggle to Respond to Digital Disruptions
  • 5. 5 Figure 3: Major Causes Behind Incumbents’ Slow Responses Source: Capgemini Consulting Analysis Kodak had most of the patents for the digital photography technology, but did not commercialize them aggressively as it feared cannibalization of its film business. Complacency Fear of Cannibalization Lower Margins in the Transition Resources Unaligned to Opportunities Slow Decision Cycle Slow Reaction to Digital Disruption Lower Margins in the Transition In industries where digital business has lower margin than traditional business, taking the digital path is often perceived as a significant bet on the company’s future revenues. Incumbents hesitate to take the plunge. The newspaper industry, for example, has largely depended on advertising revenue to subsidize low subscription revenues. To transition to digital, where advertising rates are a fraction of what they are on print, has a significant impact on profitability. This can blind management to the potential opportunities of digital for new business models and sources of revenue. One company that has successfully tackled this challenge is the Financial Times. Today, over two-thirds of the FT’s audience is online. Mobile readership drives 50% of total traffic and 20% of digital subscriptions. The total circulation, across print and online, for the paper at the end of Q3 2014 was 690,000, the highest in its 126-year history. One key reason for this, according to its manager of marketing and audience development, is that the FT thinks of itself as “a premium brand with high quality content”, and not as a newspaper11 . Key Resources Unaligned to Opportunities In most organizations, people are treated as resources tied to divisions, products, services and business units. Managers are typically reluctant to let go of resources assigned to them for fear of any potential diminishing of their authority. Similarly, organizations tend to try and retro-fit new opportunities into existing organizational structures. These political challenges pose significant hurdles when it comes to digital disruptions that, more often than not, cut across the entire organization.
  • 6. 6 48% of successful companies relied on hiring specialist digital talent in the wake of a disruption. 32% of successful companies launched services that mimicked those of a disruptive competitor. We studied the strategies adopted by organizations that have successfully withstood digital disruptions (see research methodology at the end of the article)c . We found four dominant responses to disruptions adopted by these organizations: acquiring digital talent, mimicking the competition, acquiring the disruptor/ competitor and taking a judicial approach. Most successful companies adopt a combination of these responses to ensure a robust and well-rounded approach. In this section, we examine each of these winning responses in detail. Acquiring Digital Talent Brings in Fresh Thinking Often, incumbents resort to acquiring select digital talent so they can start to build more coherent responses in-house. Travel agent Thomas Cook was one of the early companies to be disrupted by the advent of online booking sites. The company, as part of its multi-pronged approach to this digital disruption, hired a series of executives with backgrounds in digital technology as digital ‘gurus’ to join its Digital Advisory Board12 . These executives were specialists in areas such as innovation management, customer experience management, user interface design and intelligent systems13 . In our research, we found that 48% of successful companies relied on hiring specialist digital talent in the wake of a disruption (see Figure 4). Mimicking Enables Incumbents to Have a Ready Offering We found that 32% of successful companies launched services that mimicked those of a disruptive competitor (see Figure 4). In some cases, the incumbent can throw significant resources at creating competing solutions. For instance, even though Apple’s iPod, iPhone and iPad are known to be path- breaking and breakthrough innovations, they were not the first of their kinds. A number of digital music players existed before the iPod was launched14 . Similarly, a number of tablet PCs were launched in the 1990s and early 2000s, but it was the entry of the Apple iPad in 2010 that sent the tablet market soaring15 . Apple’s focus on creating products that dramatically improve on competing offerings from disruptors in its industry has enabled it to continually stay ahead of competition. Acquisitions Help Incumbents Compete and Scale-Up A common response to disruption is to acquire one of the leading disruptors. Our research found that 36% of successful companies relied on acquiring companies as a tactic to access disruptive technology/ innovation (see Figure 4). Once it has completed an acquisition, the incumbent might either choose to absorb the disruptor in its operations or continue with business-as-usual. c Successful companies are those that have maintained and/or improved their market position 32% of successful companies have resorted to using the legal route to slowing down disruption. Successful Responses to Digital Disruptions An example of the former category is Walmart.Thecompany,throughitsWalmart Labs arm, has over the years acquired multiple startups in innovative fields and subsequently folded the teams into their operations. Luvocracy is an example. The startup was an online community of half a million members that allows consumers to discover and buy products recommended by other people. Walmart subsequently closed the service and absorbed its key technologies into existing and proposed Walmart platforms16 . In other instances, the acquirer allows the innovator to continue to do business without much interference. For instance, car sharing is disruptive to car rental firms such as Avis and Hertz. Realizing this, Avis paid over $500 million to buy Zipcar, a rent-by-the-hour startup17 . The company continues to operate independently and leverages Avis’ global network. Another key driver for acquisitions is consolidation, which gives the incumbent more scale to fight back. The music industry, which suffered significant disruption from digital music, is a good example. The six major labels that existed pre-digital have now become three, with the healthier labels acquiring their struggling brethren. By doing so, these labels have increased scale, expanded their rosters of top-selling artists and increased their holdings of recording and publishing copyrights.
  • 7. 7 Over the years Walmart has acquired multiple startups in innovative fields and subsequently folded the teams into their operations. Ultimately, if the disruptive technology has real customer value, the legal route has the effect of delaying the disruptor development but it rarely stops the technology development over time. A Judicial Approach Slows Down Disruptors Digital technologies, because they are so new, are often not covered in existing regulatory legislation and base their competitive model on a disruptive approach that was not anticipated by policy-makers. Incumbents can thereby respond by suing disruptive startups, citing unfair advantage under the regulatory framework that governs their industry. Other legal concerns that incumbents typically raise against startups include the evasion of taxes, and the exposure of consumers to new risks due to disruptive platforms. Our research found that over 32% of successful companies have resorted to using the legal route to slowing down disruption (see Figure 4). Aereo, for example, was a disruptor that offered live-streams of broadcast TV over the Internet. Since traditional broadcasters and distributors were cut- off from any monetization opportunities in this model, they sued Aereo in the US courts. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that Aereo was ultimately in violation of existing regulation. The company subsequently went into bankruptcy and shut down18 . Similarly, Uber, the taxi-services app, has seen significant pushback from local taxi services in many cities across the world. In Spain, for instance, a local court ruled that Uber was illegal and Uber had to suspend its operations in the country. Similarly, the company has also been sued or legally questioned in several US states including California, Colorado, Portland and Oregon19 . However, the startup has only been going from strength to strength. It recently raised a billion dollars in venture capital and is valued at over $40 billion20 . Ultimately, if the disruptive technology has real customer value, the legal route has the effect of delaying the disruptor development but it rarely stops the technology development over time. Our research found that the number of companies taking the judicial route has increased significantly. While 8% of incumbents used this approach over the 2000-2010 period, in the 2010-2013 period, it has risen to 27%. Establishing the Right Mix of Responses Drawing lessons from incumbents that have successfully tackled disruption – retained their market position or have improved it – can help organizations establish the right mix of responses (see Figure 4). Successful companies have a relatively even spread across different tactics. They have acquired competition, hired digital talent and gone down the legal route too. Overall, the best approach is a balanced one that uses a mix of tactics (see Figure 5 for a comparison). Figure 4: Response Tactics of Successful Incumbents Source: Capgemini Consulting, “Big Data Survey”, November 2014 Judicial Route 32% 36% 48% Acquiring Competition Acquiring Digital Talent 32% Mimicking Competition
  • 8. 8 As the world increasingly becomes software-driven, competitors will emerge from adjacent industries rather than just the ‘home’ industry of the incumbent. Making the Most of Digital Disruption As technology cycles keep getting shorter, disruptions will become more prevalent. And as the world increasingly becomes software-driven, competitors will emerge from adjacent industries rather than just the ‘home’ industry of the incumbent. Does this spell the end of the centuries-old corporation? Not necessarily. Incumbents need to position digital innovation at the heart of their business. To achieve this, they can take a series of practical steps. Proactively Identify Customer Pain Points One of the biggest entry points that disruptive startups take is to identify customer pain points. Resolving these customer pain points then becomes the unique selling proposition of the disruptor. Startups such as Airbnb, Uber and Lending Club, which are based on a peer-to-peer economy, have been successful because they have identified gaps in what customers want and what incumbents provide. Rachel Botsman, leading expert on the collaborative economy, highlights how these startups disrupt existing markets by solving real customer problems, “Many collaborative startups find ways to simplify complex and frustrating customer experiences. For example, Uber and Lyft have simplified an otherwise complex and unreliable experience for customers of taxi services21 .” While some incumbents react to the emergence of the pain point by denying its importance, the market has been created. Question the Status Quo and Constantly Audit Your Business Model As INSEAD’s Serguei Netessine explains, “Business models and the advantages that flow from them are transient. What is a competitive strength today might be a burden tomorrow22.” It is vital for a company to keep questioning the status quo. Blockbuster’s innovative idea of sharing revenues with the studios, instead of paying the studio for each product, revolutionized the video and DVD rental market. Blockbuster’s market share skyrocketed. However, they failed to look ahead and anticipate the impact of streaming and eventually went bankrupt. Netflix, on the other hand, thrived because it adapted and actively cannibalized its DVD business. Organizations will constantly have to question the status quo and pose ‘what-if’ questions of their core operating model. Many incumbents typically stick to the same strategy playbook that has served them for years. However, the pace of technological change has made this approach dangerous. Incumbents need to constantly revisit their business model to ensure it is not outdated. Reorganize Resource Allocation around Opportunities Most organizations are typically organized by business units or market units. Resources are subsequently tied into what are in reality independent fiefdoms. Responding to digital disruptions requires that organizations move to a resource allocation that is centrally governed and organized around opportunities, not existing structures. As Columbia Professor Rita McGrath says, “In companies [that have been able to survive disruptions], employees tend to worry less about organizational roles and structures.23 ” Incumbents need to constantly revisit their business model to ensure it is not outdated.
  • 9. 9 Responding to digital disruptions requires that organizations move to a resource allocation that is centrally governed and organized around opportunities, not existing structures. Response to Digital Disruption Pros Cons Acquiring Disruptor/ Competition  Enables a certain level of ‘control’ over spread of disruption  Gives the incumbent a head-start over its competition  Does not rule out the possibility of other “me-too” services that operate like the acquired disruptor  Requires large investments that may be hard to justify to investors Acquiring Digital Talent  Brings in fresh thinking into the company  A more robust approach that prepares the incumbent for future disruptions  Hard to hire certain digital skills, e.g. analytics  Requires a dedicated strategy to attract and retain digital talent Mimicking Competition  Ensures incumbent has offerings matching the disruptor  Helps reduce customer churn in the short-term  Risk of comparison with disruptors and falling short of customers expectations  Challenges of replicating a true disruptor within existing legacy operations Judicial Approach  Allows incumbents to gain time to prepare a more coherent response  Likely to antagonize existing/prospective customers Figure 5: Pros and Cons of Response Types Source: Capgemini Consulting Analysis Move to an Open Innovation Model Large companies need to learn to spot the early warning signs of disruption to avoid being surprised by their impact at a later stage. This requires a shift to an open innovation model that allows them to stay tuned to sources of disruptive innovation. An open innovation model entails engaging closely with the startup ecosystem by setting up innovation labs and incubators and partnering with startup accelerators. As David Cohen, founder of leading startup accelerator Techstars says, “Being around the disruption at the early stages – and spotting it before others do – gives you a competitive advantage and you can help the startup grow at the same time24 .” Digital disruptions are a fact of economic life in the twenty-first century. New digital technologies do not care for organizational history or tradition. In fact, they sweep aside existing approaches and models, creating a new world order. Digital disruptions are in many ways a very democratic force and they can just as well originate within a two-person startup as they can in a $100 billion organization. While that prospect might make many incumbents feel vulnerable and uncomfortable, the secret is to see it as an opportunity.
  • 10. 10 Research Methodology We conducted a comprehensive study of 100 leading companies in North America and Europe to understand how they negotiate digital disruption. For our study, we selected 10 leading players across 10 industry groups that have been digitally disrupted. The industry groups included Public Transport, Healthcare, Hospitality, Education, Publishing, News and Media, Photography, Music, Banking and Travel. All of these industries were carefully selected on the basis of disruption witnessed at various stages. The incumbents that we studied have been leading players in these industries for over two decades. In our research, 84 companies had been successful in withstanding digital disruptions – success implies that they have maintained and/ or improved their market position – while 16 had been unsuccessful – these are companies that went bankrupt. Our focus was to understand the various strategies used by successful incumbents to respond to digital disruptions. How do you spot disruptions?  We actively look out for new technologies that can impact our industry  We gain insights into customer behavior by actively monitoring sentiment on social media sites, understanding emerging behavior of millennials and tracking new startups globally  We have a good view of our customer’s pain points  We have a set of leading indicators (patent filings, consumer behavior etc) that we track to foresee disruptions How do you rate your organization’s agility in responding to disruptions?  Our leadership team has a digital vision that encompasses all organizational units  We can quickly pull together pilots based on new technologies and get them off the ground  We are ready to buy a disruptor if it makes strategic sense  We have a high-level roadmap for digital transformation, which is flexible based on changing market scenarios  We revisit our business model regularly What is your approach to scouting for opportunities outside of your business?  We have a ‘labs’ setup where we encourage investments in emerging technologies and trends  We invest our time and effort in hiring and nurturing digital skills  We have partnered with/ funded startups at various stages  We encourage our partners/ customers to contribute to our product development process Checklist: Are you in a Position to Successfully Negotiate Digital Disruption?
  • 11. 11 References 1 Constellation Research, “Research Summary: Sneak Peeks From Constellation’s Futurist Framework And 2014 Outlook On Digital Disruption”, February 2014 2 Innosight, “Creative Destruction Whips through Corporate America”, 2012 3 GE Ideas Lab, “Global Innovation Barometer”, 2014 4 Greg Satell, “Business Models and the Singularity”, May 2012 5 Economist Intelligence Unit, “Agent of change – The future of technology disruption in business”, 2012 6 INSEAD Knowledge, “Four Questions to Revolutionise Your Business Model”, July 2014 7 Source: IDC and Gartner, accessed through Statista.com 8 Innovate or die: Wisdom from Apple, Google and Toyota, TIME, Jan 2013 9 From IEDP Review of - Rita Gunther McGrath, “End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business”, April 2014 10 All Things Digital, “Apple CEO: Don’t Fear Cannibalization, Embrace It”, January 2013 11 Forbes, “Digital Transformation in Action at the Financial Times”, November 2014 12 Travel Weekly, “Thomas Cook appoints digital ‘gurus’ to add tech experience”, May 2014 13 Breakingtravelnews.com, “Thomas Cook appoints three digital experts to enhance tech experience”, May 2014 14 Fastcodesign.com, “Apple’s Inspiration for the iPod? Bang & Olufsen, Not Braun”, November 2013 15 Techradar.com, “Meet the tablets that had to die before the iPad could succeed”, 2014 16 Marketwatch, “Wal-Mart buys another tech startup, Luvocracy — only to shut it down”, July 2014 17 Wall Street Journal, “Avis to Buy Car-Sharing Service Zipcar”, January 2013 18 TechCrunch, “Aereo Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy”, November 2014 19 BBC, “Uber under pressure as more bans and lawsuits loom”, December 2014 20 Wall Street Journal, “Uber Gets an Uber-Valuation”, June 2014 21 Capgemini Consulting Interview 22 HBR, “Amazon Constantly Audits its Business Model”, November 2013 23 Capgemini Consulting Interview 24 Capgemini Consulting Interview
  • 12. Rightshore® is a trademark belonging to Capgemini CapgeminiConsultingistheglobalstrategyandtransformation consulting organization of the Capgemini Group, specializing in advising and supporting enterprises in significant transformation,frominnovativestrategytoexecutionandwith an unstinting focus on results. With the new digital economy creating significant disruptions and opportunities, our global team of over 3,600 talented individuals work with leading companiesandgovernmentstomasterDigitalTransformation, drawing on our understanding of the digital economy and our leadership in business transformation and organizational change. Find out more at: www.capgemini-consulting.com Capgemini Consulting is the strategy and transformation consulting brand of Capgemini Group. The information contained in this document is proprietary. © 2015 Capgemini. All rights reserved. Jerome Buvat Head of Digital Transformation Research Institute jerome.buvat@capgemini.com Subrahmanyam KVJ Manager, Digital Transformation Research Institute subrahmanyam.kvj@capgemini.com Didier Bonnet Senior Vice President didier.bonnet@capgemini.com Authors For more information contact With more than 140,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2013 global revenues of EUR 10.1 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore® , its worldwide delivery model. Learn more about us at www.capgemini.com About Capgemini and the Collaborative Business Experience United Kingdom Didier Bonnet didier.bonnet@capgemini.com France Stephane Regnier stephane.regnier@capgemini.com Norway Anders Rygh anders.rygh@capgemini.com United States Chris Miller christoper.miller@capgemini.com Germany Thomas Friedrich thomas.friedrich@capgemini.com Sweden/ Finland Ulf Holmgren ulf.holmgren@capgemini.com Netherlands Mark Burger mark.burger@capgemini.com The authors would like to thank Roopa Nambiar, Suvidha Aggarwal from Capgemini Digital Transformation Research Institute and Gaurav Kumar from Capgemini Consulting India.