The big question answered: Disruption

Fathom-news asks industry experts opinions on some of the key questions facing the maritime industries.

This week we asked: What is disruption?

Constantine Komodromos, Co-Founder & CEO of logistics start-up VesselBot

“Disruption, to me, in a positive sense, is an alarm bell which both in my professional and personnel life forces me to re-evaluate a situation, and, by using both past experiences and history as a tool redesign an existing or even create a new situation in order to surpass current limitations. It is a never ending process of making small adjustments or big changes so as to positively impact our lives.”

Teus van Beek, General Manager Market Innovation, Marine Solutions, Wärtsilä

“Disruption is an occurrence of competing elements that make your product or business model obsolete. It was not easy to continue being a horse cab after the motorcar taxi was introduced, or being a taxi driver when Uber has taken all of your customers with unparalleled service and ease of use.

The planned path you are following can no longer be continued and you need to reinvent your business model or products offering.

We believe that the Marine industry is under attack! Energy transformation, driven by the Green energy,sharing economy new competition – market place and players competing will change and development of Artificial Intelligence, Autoimmunity and Robotics – all current designs has to change”

Ulf Siwe, ‎communications at the EU funded STM Validation Project

“Disruption is when you in retrospect see that the general process of an industry or a business has changed. Most often by the entrance of a new actor on the market who is not bound by the legacy of earlier processes and systems.”