Is Uber a product innovation?

Uber's entrance broke the monopoly that taxi drivers had in each city, particularly in airports. Uber's unique innovation to create an app in which supply and demand of transportation services could be met through a digital platform embodies how a traditional industry can be disrupted from day to night.



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There is no denying that Uber has disrupted an operational model that was hard to crack, and despite all of its problems, it has become a poster child of modern operational innovation.

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What are some business model innovation examples? The first one you just can't go past is Uber. Now Uber has what we would call a peer-to-peer innovation business model. So in the past, businesses in the taxi industry used to own fleets of cars and hire drivers.

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But Uber, true to its nature as a sustaining innovation, has focused on expanding its network and functionality in ways that make it better than traditional taxis. Apple, on the other hand, has followed a disruptive path by building its ecosystem of app developers so as to make the iPhone more like a personal computer.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that, Uber's name comes from the German word über, meaning over, above.34.

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The Uber example, provided above, is an excellent case of a disruptive innovation strategy that payed off big. Since it's generally a complex, lengthy process, with big ups and downs, the criteria used to evaluate a radical idea should not be the same as those applied to incremental innovations.

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Uber and Lyft are both ride-hailing apps, and both offer innovative alternatives to taxis and long-established private transportation services. Both give passengers a convenient and innovative way to request and pay for rides through their smartphones.

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Uber Eats and DoorDash are the two largest food delivery platforms in the U.S., and both are solid choices for flexible work.

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