The Innovation Paradox: Developing-Country Capabilities and the Unrealized Promise of Technological Catch-Up
by Xavier Cirera and William Francis Maloney · 14 Jun 2017 · 373pp · 109,964 words
upstarts, I have worked with hundreds of corporations to help them tackle their own dilemmas. At the core of that work is my theory of disruptive innovation,2 which describes how a company with fewer resources is able to challenge more established businesses by introducing simpler, more convenient, and more affordable innovations
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missing. Identifying the Barriers How do you go about identifying high-potential pockets of nonconsumption? In their book The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work, my colleague Scott Anthony and his coauthors dedicate a whole chapter to how to identify nonconsumption. There are primarily four barriers or constraints
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-mobile-subscriptions-since-1993/. 7.Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfied, and Elizabeth J. Altman, The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2008), 45–60. 8.In our book Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice, my coauthors
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beef industry.” Michael B. Horn and Julia Freeland Fisher, “The Educator’s Dilemma: When and how schools should embrace poverty relief,” Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, accessed May 1, 2018, https://www.christenseninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Educators-Dilemma.pdf. In The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining
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influence on the business world has been profound.” EFOSA OJOMO works side by side with Christensen as a senior fellow at the Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, where he leads the organization’s Global Prosperity Practice. His work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, the Guardian, Quartz, CNBCAfrica, and the
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words
transformational effect of the technological revolution. Bastions of the old financial order such as banks go to great lengths to defend monopolies and often stymie disruptive innovation. The financial system also runs on outmoded technology and is governed by regulations dating back to the nineteenth century. It is rife with contradictions and
Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less
by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou · 15 Feb 2015 · 400pp · 88,647 words
, the R&D teams at companies like Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft have all included microeconomists to help design business models, pricing strategies and alliances for disruptive innovations. And with the rise of emerging economies like India, China and Brazil, R&D solutions should be fine-tuned to meet the unique market conditions
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operations including in France and Japan. In food and agribusiness, PepsiCo has located its Global Value Innovation Centre in India with the aim of spreading disruptive innovation around the world. In health care, GE is creating a whole new generation of affordable medical devices in its Indian and Chinese R&D centres
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help or ask for help,” notes Knudstorp. Another way to empower staff is to create an unstructured playground where creativity does not violate company rules. (Disruptive innovation, after all, requires people to be disruptive.) Henry Ford, founder of the eponymous motor company, was anything but playful – you would be hard-pressed to
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a big hairy audacious goal (BHAG), such as at least reducing operating costs by half, that requires a radically different solution. “The BHAG motivates our disruptive innovation teams,” says Vats. The GVIC applies the engage and iterate principle (see Chapter 2) for rapid prototyping, market trial and customer feedback. Every disruptive value
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limitation on creativity. Nothing is forbidden. As you have nothing to lose you boldly challenge the status quo. That’s how you come up with disruptive innovation. Renault and Nissan plan to launch the first vehicles built using the CMF-A platform in India in 2015 and later in other emerging markets
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52 digital radiators 89 digital tools 47, 50, 53, 62, 164, 170 for tracking customer needs 28–9, 29–31 digitisation 53, 65–6, 174 disruptive innovation 10–11, 40, 70, 91, 170, 199 “disruptive value solutions” 191–3 distributed energy systems 53–4 distributed manufacturing 9 distribution 9, 54, 57, 96
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by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 3 Feb 2015 · 368pp · 96,825 words
Invented The Digital Camera,” Fast Company, April 12, 2011, http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663611/how-steve-sasson-invented-the-digital-camera-video. 6 Steve Sasson, “Disruptive Innovation: The Story of the First Digital Camera,” Linda Hall Library Lectures, October 26, 2011. 7 Andrew Martin, “Negative Exposure for Kodak,” New York Times, October
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
product architectures. This strategy of marching down a well-defined product road map may pay dividends for some time. But complacency creates enormous vulnerability when disruptive innovations emerge that may threaten the product road map itself. It’s this vulnerability that the X Prize Foundation is trying to exploit by offering a
Innovation and Its Enemies
by Calestous Juma · 20 Mar 2017
of the concept of creative destruction is technological discontinuity. A popular derivative of the thinking is the concept of “disruptive innovation.”27 As noted by Christensen in his original formulation of the theory, disruptive innovation is distinguished from sustaining technologies that “improve the performance of established products, along the dimensions that mainstream customers in
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marketing, the disruptive technologies eventually end up dominating the market. They are “typically cheaper, simpler, smaller, and, frequently, more convenient to use.”29 The term “disruptive innovation” is generally used to cover technological innovation as well as business models.30 This makes it difficult to assess its wider societal implications. Other approaches
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approach stands in sharp contrast with contemporary appeals to technological disruptions that focus more on displacing incumbent players rather than on accommodating them. The term “disruptive innovation” has lost its original technical meaning as formulated by Christensen and is now generally refers to destruction of incumbent industries. This may bring a certain
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the challenges of getting support from project managers. In many cases, “Managers with restrictive mental models will adopt up to five disruptive innovation rejection strategies: rewarding incrementalism; ignoring the positive aspects of disruptive innovation; focusing on historical perceptions of success; creating perceptions of success with high effort; and holding beliefs in the face of
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: McGraw Hill, 1939), 73. 25. Schumpeter, Business Cycles, 73. 26. Schumpeter, Business Cycles, 73. 27. Dan Yu and Chang Chieh Hang, “A Reflective Review of Disruptive Innovation Theory,” International Journal of Management Reviews 12 (2010): 435–452. 28. Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to
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Fail (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), xv. 29. Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma, xv. 30. Constantinos Markides, “Disruptive Innovation: In Need of Better Theory,” Journal of Product Innovation Management 23 (2006): 19–25. 31. Gerard J. Tellis, “Disruptive Technology or Visionary Leadership?,” Journal of
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Innovation: An Architecture for Policy Development,” Innovation and Development 4, no. 1 (2014): 33–54. 53. Peter N. Thomond and Fioina Lettice, “Allocating Resources to Disruptive Innovation Projects: Challenging Mental Models and Overcoming Management Resistance,” International Journal of Technology Management 44, nos. 1–2 (2008): 140. 54. Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of
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14 (2003): 365–384. 59. Cass R. Sunstein, “Empirically Informed Regulation,” University of Chicago Law Review 78, no. 4 (2011): 1350. 60. Nathan Cortez, “Regulating Disruptive Innovations,” Berkeley Technology Law Review 29, no. 1 (2014: 277. 61. Anne Lewis, “The Legality of 3D Printing: How Technology Is Moving Faster Than the Law
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–89 Cosmetics, antifreeze protein in, 275 Cotton industry, 234, 242, 246, 253, 291–292 Cottonseed oil, in margarine, 114 Creative destruction, 11–43. See also Disruptive innovation conclusions on, 42–43 creative construction, 16 impact of, 203 intellectual responses, 31–32 overview, 8, 11 Schumpeter, social transformation and, 16–23 social responses
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, 225, 241, 251, 253 Direct current (DC), 154, 173, 340n1. See also Edison, Thomas Disease-resistant wheat cultivars, 228 Disgust, technological innovation and, 24, 93 Disruptive innovation, 17–18, 169, 301. See also Creative destruction Distrust communication and, 312 of gas industry, 147–148 of ice industry, 185 of institutions, 5, 8
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, 279 Supreme Court on antimargarine laws, 105 Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980), 282 Katz v. United States (1967), 42 Olmstead v. United States (1928), 42 Sustainability disruptive innovation vs., 17–18 of fish industry, 257, 260, 273 as grand challenge, 12 public policy on, 290 sustainable agriculture, 224, 248–249 of transgenic salmon
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by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
The Participation Revolution: How to Ride the Waves of Change in a Terrifyingly Turbulent World
by Neil Gibb · 15 Feb 2018 · 217pp · 63,287 words
, designed to make the merchants who were trading the coffee rich. In 1995, Clayton Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, introduced the term “disruptive innovation” in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. As the twin forces of digital technology and globalisation have shaken up and disrupted just about every aspect
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of our lives in the 21st century, disruptive innovation has become the rallying cry of a generation. Disruption, we are told, is the source of breakthroughs, transformation, and spectacular success. But when I tracked
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its products rather than why they actually wanted to take photographs. In 1995, Clayton Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, introduced the term “disruptive innovation” in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. What Christensen was referring to in his book’s title was how, at certain points in history, the
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. As the twin forces of digital technology and globalisation have shaken up and disrupted just about every aspect of our lives in the 21st century, disruptive innovation has become the rallying cry of a generation. Everywhere you look, books and articles are trumpeting this new religion; disruption is the means to success
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, fame, and fortune. Emotive as it is as a concept, though, compelling speakers at conferences to thump the lectern and use big bold fonts, disruptive innovation is not what made Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger so spectacularly successful with Instagram. In fact, it couldn’t be further from it. The subtitle
Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success
by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland and Rob Wertheimer · 13 Jul 2020 · 372pp · 101,678 words
a few short years VC investment has reached close to half that level. (See Figure 10.7.) Most of this influx of funding aims at disruptive innovations, while most standard R&D is incremental. Accordingly, the tech world is now outspending the industrial world on real disruption by a wide margin and
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quality of the work environment. Fueled by this initial success, which saw FlexVolt sales rising 10 times as fast as prior innovations, the company formalized disruptive innovation as part of its update and expansion of SFS. It set up several teams outside its core offices, near universities and other innovation hubs. One
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fuel use, because emissions equipment is too expensive on small engines. In 10 years, much of the lawn and garden tool products may be electric. Disruptive innovation teams are already working on the opportunity. POSTMORTEM Stanley Black & Decker took the flywheel of margin improvement and capital redeployment and added in a technology
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words
consistent with Schumpeter’s expectations. They are also in line with the insights of Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor who coined the term disruptive innovation, meaning a change—in technology, service, or product—that creates a new market by relying on a completely new approach. The effects of a
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disruptive innovation eventually spill over to other related or similar markets and undermine them. The iPad is a good example. Using your cellphone to pay for groceries
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elected and not by a dictator. While welcome, these changes pale in comparison with the extraordinary transformations in communications, medicine, business, and war. In short, disruptive innovation has not arrived in politics, government, and political participation. But it will. We are on the verge of a revolutionary wave of positive political and
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–162 di Pietro, Antonio, 98, 99 Diplomacy, 153–155 economic, 144–147, 149 Direct Edge, 188 Disease, 10, 73, 140, 210, 226 Disney, 179, 212 Disruptive Innovation, 71, 243 District of Columbia, 88 Divorce, 65, 66 DIY Drones group, 119 Dobbs, Richard, 61 Dolan, Kerry A., 181 Domhoff, G. William, 48 Dominica
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