Keep Calm and Manage Disruption
Disruption can be averted, and many businesses manage through it by beating the new competition, joining them, or waiting them out. "To be sure, facing disruption is no picnic," writes Joshua S. Gans, author of The Disruption Dilemma. "But it also isn't the existential threat that so many see it as." Many businesses are finding ways to weaken disruptive events, sometimes by investing aggressively in the new innovation after entrants had brought it to market or by acquiring the entrants and the actual disruption.