Spot disruption patterns with advanced analytics

SOMETIMES disruption is at your doorstep and obvious - an analytics-enabled new business model threatening your business. More often than not, you have to look out for the signposts pointing to an "analytic disruptor" headed your way. While predictions of this sort are never certain, three common patterns of disruption have emerged. They include 1) a radical lowering of cost; 2) a big jump forward in customer experience; and 3) new business models combining services, technologies and data in unexpected ways. These are worth a closer look.