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But 4 years later, coops haven't made a dent in the online talent marketplace industry. Freelance gig economy industry structure Small Business EconomyBraintrust is a new entrant in the online talent marketplace space, but with a twist. MORE
The industry is also growing rapidly, with industry revenues expected to exceed $1 billion by 2022. The report The Rise of the Expert Economy is a interesting look at what it calls a "little-known, high-growth sector, made up of networks that connect experts with companies that need them." " The firms in this sector, such as GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group), Guidepoint and Third Bridge, are surprising large. MORE
Two companies that connect artisan makers with retailers and customers announced large funding rounds last week. The wholesale marketplace Faire raised $100 million while the wholesale and licensing business Minted said they raised $208 million. Both firms connect retailers, who are often small independents, with small and solopreneur maker businesses. Faire reports having "15,000 stores actively buying on the platform?—?more MORE
As industry analysts we are very interested in new and innovative business models and practices in our industry. There are several worth noting: Industry Analyst/Journalism Hybrid : These are firms that are augmenting or replacing their traditional advertising based business models by adding industry analysis and/or research services. It will be interesting to see how this industry evolves. Business Models industry structure MORE
In fact, there are ecosystem companies in almost every industry and most have SMBs and independent workers as important ecosystem partners. The rise of ecosystem companies is one of the drivers behind the shift to barbell industry structures. MORE
Key quote: The industry has come a long way since it first took off in the early 2000s. We agree that the term "coworking" is too limiting for what's going in the commercial office space industry. Firms like Industrious, WeWork, Serendipity Labs and many others no longer just provide workspaces where people work alone together. This is part of a much broader trend - the servitization of products - that's impacting most industries. MORE
Business Models Freelance gig economy Independent workers industry structureLast week MBO Partners released their annual future of work predictions for the coming year. MORE
News, like almost every other industry we've looked at, is a barbell industry. By this we mean an industrial structure with a few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms and a large and growing number of small, micro and even one person firms on the other end. Our Industry Structure category has a lot of posts on barbell industries. Tags: industry structure MORE
That both Upwork and Fiverr have reached the size and scale to go public shows the maturation and growing importance of the online talent marketplace industry. The online freelance talent marketplace Upwork filed last week to go public. According to the filing, Upwork has 375,000 registered freelancers and 475,000 client businesses located across 180 countries. The company reported sales of $164.4 million in 2016 and $202.6 MORE
Based on these numbers, the meetings industry contribution to U.S. GDP is greater than the motion picture/recording industry ($113B), performing arts/spectator sports/museums ($87B) and information and data processing services ($80B). According to a report by the "Big 4" accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), in 2012there were "1.83 MORE
These include: The Stem : a ‘networked consulting’ model that draws on the industry’s leading independent talent to help health companies increase customer/patient engagement. The gig economy continues to spread rapidly and is becoming a key talent source for many industries. MORE
Last week the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) released The Human Cloud, the Gig Economy & the Transformation of Work. It nicely covers the topics mentioned in the report title. Key quote from the report on the size of the "human cloud": "SIA estimates that total human cloud spending reached between $47 and $51 billion globally in 2016. MORE
But despite WeWork's woes, the coworking industry is doing just fine. As we pointed out a few months ago, the coworking industry continues to surge and WeWork's problems won't change this. Having said all that, WeWork's problems will impact the coworking industry. In the short run, there will be a lot of negative press and coworking's naysayers (and there are quite a few) will suggest the industry is not sustainable. MORE
The Ideas Industry is an interesting look at how the marketplace for ideas is shifting due to the emergence of for-profit think tanks and ideas entrepreneurs. The book reaches no firm conclusions whether or not the evolution of the ideas industry and the rise of for-profits is good or bad. " Missing from the book is coverage of the role thought leadership is playing in the rapidly growing content marketing industry. MORE
Paid Content has an interesting article on media becoming a barbell industry. Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end. We've looked at dozens of industries and all have this structure or are moving to it. industry structure MORE
on Choosing the Right Industry Inc. has an interesting package of articles on the best industries for starting a business. The industries that made their list are quite eclectic, everything from cupcakes to ferryboats to environmental consulting. I found self-storage leasing to be an interesting industry. It is also an easy industry to enter and a good way to invest long term in real estate. MORE
This makes direct selling a relatively bright sector of the retail industry. A couple of other interesting data points on the direct selling industry are women make up 77% of sellers and wellness products are driving the growth of the industry (see chart below; click to enlarge). According to the Direct Selling Association (DSA), about 20.2 million Americans are involved in direct selling the U.S. This is up from 15.8 million in 2010. MORE
I can think of no better way to start 2014 than with a look at 2014 pet industry trends. Multibrief's Pet Businesses Will Prosper: Industry trends for 2014 and beyond provides such an outlook. According to the article, the pet industry is forecast to continue to grow driven in large part by the pet humanization trend. The pet industry is mostly made of small businesses. MORE
Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Data and Analytics Help Macys Go Local | Main | Newsweek Sold for $1 » October 05, 2010 PWCs 2040 Industry Cluster Forecast PWC's Top Industry Clusters in 2040 report forecasts which cities will have the largest clusters for 5 industries: pharma, auto assembly, asset management, filmed entertainment and tertiary education. The best know example is the tech industry cluster in Silicon Valley. MORE
For example, the shift to barbell industry structures is in part driven by this trend. Economic Decentralization Freelance Independent workers industry structure on-demand economy trendsThe Harvard Business Review's The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization covers the trend towards work being divided into ever smaller tasks performed by ever more specialized workers. MORE
In response to this problem a rapidly growing industry focused on providing skills training and job placement has emerged. Expect to see this industry continue to expand in the coming years. The current employment picture is quite interesting. The official statistics say we've got a great jobs market. MORE
Industrial giant GE has been pushing the idea of the Industrial Internet, including publishing a detailed white paper on the concept. GE's definition of the Industrial Internet is primarily focused on big machines like aircraft engines and power generators. The concepts and ideas behind the Industrial Internet are not new. This is a larger scale variation on the concept of the Internet of Things , first coined back in the late 1990s. MORE
They recently released The Hero's Jouney Through the Landscape of the Future , which focuses on a topic we've long covered - barbell industrial structures. These industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end. industry structure MORE
According to the Kauffman Foundation, the VC industry is very broken. And He Is Us" is a damning analysis of Venture Capital as an asset class and the Venture Capital industry in general. The news here isn't that the VC industry is broken. The Kauffman Foundation has long been a close friend of the VC industry. Kauffman has many reasons why the industry is broken. Their report "We Have Met the Enemy. MORE
The American Staffing Association reported that 2010 Q2 staffing industry revenues were up 33% versus Q2 2009. Yes, This revenue translated into the staffing industry employing 2.4 According to the article, most in the staffing industry believe there has been a structural shift to contingent work. Workforce Week has a special report on contingent staffing. The short version - it's booming. MORE
We've noticed that a growing number of coworking facilities are starting to look and act like mini-industrial clusters. Industrial clusters are geographic concentrations of firms that broadly serve the same industry and have common needs for talent, technology and business infrastructure. Industrial clusters are successful because of the economic advantages that come from a tight network of customers, suppliers and cluster-related talent. MORE
Regular readers know the pet humanization trend is driving the growth of the pet industry. See our Pet Trends section for more pet humanization and the pet foods industry. spending on pets reached nearly $100 billion in 2020, up from $95.7 MORE
Vertical IQ is a leading provider of Industry Intelligence for those advising small- and medium-sized businesses such as bankers, accountants, and other SMB advisors. The chart below shows their high-level industry sector coverage. MORE
Deloitte University's Industrialized Crowdsourcing is one of the best, relatively short descriptions of crowdsourcing I've read. The key quote is the summary: Enterprise adoption of the power of the crowd allows specialized skills to be dynamically sourced from anyone, anywhere, and only as needed. Companies can use the collective knowledge of the masses to help with tasks from data entry and coding to advanced analytics and product development. MORE
Government Policy industry structure Small Business Economy Web/TechThe Hamilton Project essay The Nature of Work after the COVID Crisis: Too Few Low-Wage Jobs is authored by MIT economists David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds. MORE
Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Increase in Unemployment Rate Good News | Main | 1 in 8 Consumers Forecasted to Cut or Eliminate Cable TV in 2010 » May 10, 2010 Disruption and the Analyst Industry I signed up for GigaOm Pro recently. Low cost business models have disrupted a number of content industries, with music, newspapers and magazines getting hit very hard. MORE
The coworking industry is getting more competitive. According to Frank Cottle, chairman of Alliance Business Centers, "WeWork is nothing but Regus with a paint job" He is also quoted saying it's $20 billion valuation "makes no sense" Regardless of what you think about WeWork or its valuation, it's clear they're having a competitive impact on the coworking industry. The coworking industry is attracting a range of new entrants. MORE
We revisited the industry in 2010 and found craft brewers 2009 revenue share of the U.S. Since 2009 the craft beer industry has continued to advance, with 2013 being a banner year. billion industry (a 14% revenue share) and is showing no signs of slowing down. The beer industry also continues to be an excellent example of the increasingly common barbell industry structure. See our Industry Structure section for more examples. MORE
of the beer industry's 2016 volume. beer industry's revenue. So while the craft beer industry is still growing, the growth is starting to slow. Our interest in the craft brewing industry is due to the fact that it's such a good example of a barbell industrial structure. We've been following the evolution of barbell industry structures for over a decade and we often use the beer industry as an example. MORE
The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) recently released their U.S. Gig Economy - 2018 Edition report. They found that about 48 million Americans are in the gig economy, which is 31% of the workforce. They also found about 13.7 million Americans are human cloud workers. They define the human cloud as: " all manner of companies that facilitate direct, digitally-enabled work arrangements, from sourcing a worker through payment." MORE
First, the pet industry missed the Great Recession. I can't think of many industries that had close to 20% revenue growth from 2007 to 2010. As a life long dog owner, I love following pet trends. The Mini Trends blog has a nice post on both pet trends and the "Petrepreneurs" who are building businesses related to pets. MORE
Most (52 percent) are also reporting they plan on visiting fewer locations but spending more time at each stop, which is consistent with trends in the travel industry as a whole. The number of U.S. digital nomads grew from 7.3 million in 2019 to 10.9 million in 2020, a 49% increase. MORE
Interesting study from Accenture on how the industrial internet is changing the competitive landscape of industries. Accenture defines the industrial internet as the combination of Big Data analytics with the Internet of Things. Eighty-four percent feel that Big Data analytics has the power to shift the competitive landscape for their industry in the next year. MORE
We've done a lot of work looking at Barbell Industrial Structures. These industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end. Almost all of the industries we've studied exhibit the Barbell Industrial Structure. industry structure MORE
According to Staffing Industry Analysts , the online staffing industry is now about a $1billion dollar industry that's growing at "double-digit" rates. The best known of the firms in this industry are probably oDesk and Elance. But there are a growing number of industry vertical job and project marketplaces springing up. One of the more interesting examples is Jinglesmart , which serves the Jingle industry. MORE
Crunchbase's Investors Unleash Millions Into Pet-Tech Startups covers the surge in pet industry venture funding over the past 5 years. The pet industry continues to grow and the pet humanization trend continues to get stronger as pet obsessed Millennials pamper their pets even more than older generations. Key quote: Funding in pet startups surged by 334 percent to $291.8 million compared to $67.2 million in 2012, according to Crunchbase research. MORE
The 1st Annual Local-Mobile Workspace-as-an-Industry conference was recently held in San Jose. The workspace-as-a-service industry includes office business centers, coworking facilities, incubators and other shared office environments and services. The industry is quite large, as shown in the slide below from Scott Chambers' state of the industry presentation. MORE
The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) is a research and industry analyst firm that focuses on contingent work. Their clients are staffing industry firms and corporations that employ contingent and/or temporary workers. staffing industry forecast. The recently released their 2022 employment projections and U.S. The full report is only available to their clients, but they publicly released their high level forecast numbers. The key SIA forecast is that U.S. MORE
The new data provides information by owner demographics such as sex, race, ethnicity and veteran status, geography, industry, receipt size class, and legal form of organization. The U.S. Census has released new demographic data on nonemployer businesses. MORE
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NOVEMBER 6, 2014
Interesting study from Accenture on how the industrial internet is changing the competitive landscape of industries. Accenture defines the industrial internet as the combination of Big Data analytics with the Internet of Things. Eighty-four percent feel that Big Data analytics has the power to shift the competitive landscape for their industry in the next year.
Small Business Labs
APRIL 4, 2013
Paid Content has an interesting article on media becoming a barbell industry. Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end. We've looked at dozens of industries and all have this structure or are moving to it. industry structure
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JANUARY 2, 2014
I can think of no better way to start 2014 than with a look at 2014 pet industry trends. Multibrief's Pet Businesses Will Prosper: Industry trends for 2014 and beyond provides such an outlook. According to the article, the pet industry is forecast to continue to grow driven in large part by the pet humanization trend. The pet industry is mostly made of small businesses.
Small Business Labs
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
Based on these numbers, the meetings industry contribution to U.S. GDP is greater than the motion picture/recording industry ($113B), performing arts/spectator sports/museums ($87B) and information and data processing services ($80B). According to a report by the "Big 4" accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), in 2012there were "1.83
Small Business Labs
JUNE 17, 2014
The 1st Annual Local-Mobile Workspace-as-an-Industry conference was recently held in San Jose. The workspace-as-a-service industry includes office business centers, coworking facilities, incubators and other shared office environments and services. The industry is quite large, as shown in the slide below from Scott Chambers' state of the industry presentation.
Small Business Labs
MARCH 6, 2014
Deloitte University's Industrialized Crowdsourcing is one of the best, relatively short descriptions of crowdsourcing I've read. The key quote is the summary: Enterprise adoption of the power of the crowd allows specialized skills to be dynamically sourced from anyone, anywhere, and only as needed. Companies can use the collective knowledge of the masses to help with tasks from data entry and coding to advanced analytics and product development.
Small Business Labs
APRIL 9, 2014
As industry analysts we are very interested in new and innovative business models and practices in our industry. There are several worth noting: Industry Analyst/Journalism Hybrid : These are firms that are augmenting or replacing their traditional advertising based business models by adding industry analysis and/or research services. It will be interesting to see how this industry evolves. Business Models industry structure
Small Business Labs
JUNE 9, 2015
In response to this problem a rapidly growing industry focused on providing skills training and job placement has emerged. Expect to see this industry continue to expand in the coming years. The current employment picture is quite interesting. The official statistics say we've got a great jobs market.
Small Business Labs
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) is a research and industry analyst firm that focuses on contingent work. Their clients are staffing industry firms and corporations that employ contingent and/or temporary workers. staffing industry forecast. The recently released their 2022 employment projections and U.S. The full report is only available to their clients, but they publicly released their high level forecast numbers. The key SIA forecast is that U.S.
Small Business Labs
APRIL 20, 2020
Vertical IQ is a leading provider of Industry Intelligence for those advising small- and medium-sized businesses such as bankers, accountants, and other SMB advisors. The chart below shows their high-level industry sector coverage.
Small Business Labs
APRIL 10, 2012
We've done a lot of work looking at Barbell Industrial Structures. These industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end. Almost all of the industries we've studied exhibit the Barbell Industrial Structure. industry structure
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 6, 2012
We've noticed that a growing number of coworking facilities are starting to look and act like mini-industrial clusters. Industrial clusters are geographic concentrations of firms that broadly serve the same industry and have common needs for talent, technology and business infrastructure. Industrial clusters are successful because of the economic advantages that come from a tight network of customers, suppliers and cluster-related talent.
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
But despite WeWork's woes, the coworking industry is doing just fine. As we pointed out a few months ago, the coworking industry continues to surge and WeWork's problems won't change this. Having said all that, WeWork's problems will impact the coworking industry. In the short run, there will be a lot of negative press and coworking's naysayers (and there are quite a few) will suggest the industry is not sustainable.
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Data and Analytics Help Macys Go Local | Main | Newsweek Sold for $1 » October 05, 2010 PWCs 2040 Industry Cluster Forecast PWC's Top Industry Clusters in 2040 report forecasts which cities will have the largest clusters for 5 industries: pharma, auto assembly, asset management, filmed entertainment and tertiary education. The best know example is the tech industry cluster in Silicon Valley.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 21, 2021
In fact, there are ecosystem companies in almost every industry and most have SMBs and independent workers as important ecosystem partners. The rise of ecosystem companies is one of the drivers behind the shift to barbell industry structures.
Small Business Labs
MAY 9, 2012
According to the Kauffman Foundation, the VC industry is very broken. And He Is Us" is a damning analysis of Venture Capital as an asset class and the Venture Capital industry in general. The news here isn't that the VC industry is broken. The Kauffman Foundation has long been a close friend of the VC industry. Kauffman has many reasons why the industry is broken. Their report "We Have Met the Enemy.
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 24, 2017
The coworking industry is getting more competitive. According to Frank Cottle, chairman of Alliance Business Centers, "WeWork is nothing but Regus with a paint job" He is also quoted saying it's $20 billion valuation "makes no sense" Regardless of what you think about WeWork or its valuation, it's clear they're having a competitive impact on the coworking industry. The coworking industry is attracting a range of new entrants.
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 29, 2010
The American Staffing Association reported that 2010 Q2 staffing industry revenues were up 33% versus Q2 2009. Yes, This revenue translated into the staffing industry employing 2.4 According to the article, most in the staffing industry believe there has been a structural shift to contingent work. Workforce Week has a special report on contingent staffing. The short version - it's booming.
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 30, 2012
According to Staffing Industry Analysts , the online staffing industry is now about a $1billion dollar industry that's growing at "double-digit" rates. The best known of the firms in this industry are probably oDesk and Elance. But there are a growing number of industry vertical job and project marketplaces springing up. One of the more interesting examples is Jinglesmart , which serves the Jingle industry.
Small Business Labs
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Key quote: The industry has come a long way since it first took off in the early 2000s. We agree that the term "coworking" is too limiting for what's going in the commercial office space industry. Firms like Industrious, WeWork, Serendipity Labs and many others no longer just provide workspaces where people work alone together. This is part of a much broader trend - the servitization of products - that's impacting most industries.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 5, 2021
Business Models Freelance gig economy Independent workers industry structureLast week MBO Partners released their annual future of work predictions for the coming year.
Small Business Labs
JULY 9, 2018
The industry is also growing rapidly, with industry revenues expected to exceed $1 billion by 2022. The report The Rise of the Expert Economy is a interesting look at what it calls a "little-known, high-growth sector, made up of networks that connect experts with companies that need them." " The firms in this sector, such as GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group), Guidepoint and Third Bridge, are surprising large.
Small Business Labs
MAY 26, 2010
on Choosing the Right Industry Inc. has an interesting package of articles on the best industries for starting a business. The industries that made their list are quite eclectic, everything from cupcakes to ferryboats to environmental consulting. I found self-storage leasing to be an interesting industry. It is also an easy industry to enter and a good way to invest long term in real estate.
Small Business Labs
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Two companies that connect artisan makers with retailers and customers announced large funding rounds last week. The wholesale marketplace Faire raised $100 million while the wholesale and licensing business Minted said they raised $208 million. Both firms connect retailers, who are often small independents, with small and solopreneur maker businesses. Faire reports having "15,000 stores actively buying on the platform?—?more
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
of the beer industry's 2016 volume. beer industry's revenue. So while the craft beer industry is still growing, the growth is starting to slow. Our interest in the craft brewing industry is due to the fact that it's such a good example of a barbell industrial structure. We've been following the evolution of barbell industry structures for over a decade and we often use the beer industry as an example.
Small Business Labs
MARCH 30, 2021
The new data provides information by owner demographics such as sex, race, ethnicity and veteran status, geography, industry, receipt size class, and legal form of organization. The U.S. Census has released new demographic data on nonemployer businesses.
Small Business Labs
JUNE 2, 2017
The Ideas Industry is an interesting look at how the marketplace for ideas is shifting due to the emergence of for-profit think tanks and ideas entrepreneurs. The book reaches no firm conclusions whether or not the evolution of the ideas industry and the rise of for-profits is good or bad. " Missing from the book is coverage of the role thought leadership is playing in the rapidly growing content marketing industry.
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
But 4 years later, coops haven't made a dent in the online talent marketplace industry. Freelance gig economy industry structure Small Business EconomyBraintrust is a new entrant in the online talent marketplace space, but with a twist.
Small Business Labs
JULY 25, 2017
These include: The Stem : a ‘networked consulting’ model that draws on the industry’s leading independent talent to help health companies increase customer/patient engagement. The gig economy continues to spread rapidly and is becoming a key talent source for many industries.
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
That both Upwork and Fiverr have reached the size and scale to go public shows the maturation and growing importance of the online talent marketplace industry. The online freelance talent marketplace Upwork filed last week to go public. According to the filing, Upwork has 375,000 registered freelancers and 475,000 client businesses located across 180 countries. The company reported sales of $164.4 million in 2016 and $202.6
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
We revisited the industry in 2010 and found craft brewers 2009 revenue share of the U.S. Since 2009 the craft beer industry has continued to advance, with 2013 being a banner year. billion industry (a 14% revenue share) and is showing no signs of slowing down. The beer industry also continues to be an excellent example of the increasingly common barbell industry structure. See our Industry Structure section for more examples.
Small Business Labs
MARCH 23, 2021
Regular readers know the pet humanization trend is driving the growth of the pet industry. See our Pet Trends section for more pet humanization and the pet foods industry. spending on pets reached nearly $100 billion in 2020, up from $95.7
Small Business Labs
MARCH 24, 2011
First, the pet industry missed the Great Recession. I can't think of many industries that had close to 20% revenue growth from 2007 to 2010. As a life long dog owner, I love following pet trends. The Mini Trends blog has a nice post on both pet trends and the "Petrepreneurs" who are building businesses related to pets.
Small Business Labs
JULY 5, 2018
Crunchbase's Investors Unleash Millions Into Pet-Tech Startups covers the surge in pet industry venture funding over the past 5 years. The pet industry continues to grow and the pet humanization trend continues to get stronger as pet obsessed Millennials pamper their pets even more than older generations. Key quote: Funding in pet startups surged by 334 percent to $291.8 million compared to $67.2 million in 2012, according to Crunchbase research.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 4, 2020
Government Policy industry structure Small Business Economy Web/TechThe Hamilton Project essay The Nature of Work after the COVID Crisis: Too Few Low-Wage Jobs is authored by MIT economists David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds.
Small Business Labs
MAY 10, 2010
Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Increase in Unemployment Rate Good News | Main | 1 in 8 Consumers Forecasted to Cut or Eliminate Cable TV in 2010 » May 10, 2010 Disruption and the Analyst Industry I signed up for GigaOm Pro recently. Low cost business models have disrupted a number of content industries, with music, newspapers and magazines getting hit very hard.
Small Business Labs
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
News, like almost every other industry we've looked at, is a barbell industry. By this we mean an industrial structure with a few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms and a large and growing number of small, micro and even one person firms on the other end. Our Industry Structure category has a lot of posts on barbell industries. Tags: industry structure
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 11, 2018
The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) recently released their U.S. Gig Economy - 2018 Edition report. They found that about 48 million Americans are in the gig economy, which is 31% of the workforce. They also found about 13.7 million Americans are human cloud workers. They define the human cloud as: " all manner of companies that facilitate direct, digitally-enabled work arrangements, from sourcing a worker through payment."
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Last week the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) released The Human Cloud, the Gig Economy & the Transformation of Work. It nicely covers the topics mentioned in the report title. Key quote from the report on the size of the "human cloud": "SIA estimates that total human cloud spending reached between $47 and $51 billion globally in 2016.
Small Business Labs
JULY 6, 2015
For example, the shift to barbell industry structures is in part driven by this trend. Economic Decentralization Freelance Independent workers industry structure on-demand economy trendsThe Harvard Business Review's The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization covers the trend towards work being divided into ever smaller tasks performed by ever more specialized workers.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 6, 2014
They recently released The Hero's Jouney Through the Landscape of the Future , which focuses on a topic we've long covered - barbell industrial structures. These industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end. industry structure
Small Business Labs
APRIL 25, 2017
This makes direct selling a relatively bright sector of the retail industry. A couple of other interesting data points on the direct selling industry are women make up 77% of sellers and wellness products are driving the growth of the industry (see chart below; click to enlarge). According to the Direct Selling Association (DSA), about 20.2 million Americans are involved in direct selling the U.S. This is up from 15.8 million in 2010.
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Most (52 percent) are also reporting they plan on visiting fewer locations but spending more time at each stop, which is consistent with trends in the travel industry as a whole. The number of U.S. digital nomads grew from 7.3 million in 2019 to 10.9 million in 2020, a 49% increase.
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