Thought Leadership
The emergence of disruptive innovation in Supply Chain Management When speed is the new competition In this Opinion-Editorial (OpEd) contribution, Tom Craig, President LTD Management, Pennsylvania, USA, a leading authority and professional consultant on logistics and supply chain management and regular contributor to Global Supply Chain examines the new supply chain innovation as it applies to e-commerce. He affirms and makes the case that neither e-commerce nor Amazon but the new digital dynamic that drives online customer buying and makes products more accessible to customers is essentially the star disruption. Disruptive innovation, a term of art coined by Clayton Christensen, describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors —Editor. 36 MARCH 2020
