America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple
Incumbents from Walmart to General Motors are fighting back against disrupters
Attend any business conference or open any management book and an encounter with some variation of the same message is almost guaranteed: the pace of change in business is accelerating, and no one is safe from disruption. Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (ai) have left many corporate Goliaths nervously anticipating David’s sling, and fearing the same fate as Kodak and Blockbuster, two giants felled by the digital revolution.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Goliath’s triumph”
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