Www.innosight.com/documents/diprimer.pdf. Disruptive Innovation. The disruptive innovation is probably one of the most important innovation theories of the last decade. The core concepts behind it circulated so fast that already in 1998, one year after the publication of the theory, people were using the term without making reference to Harvard professor Clayton Christensen or to his book The Innovator’s Dilemma (Harvard Business School Press). This article is the seventh part of the Innovation Management Theory series, you can check the previous six clicking here.
Disruptive Innovation The term disruptive innovation as we know it today first appeared in the 1997 best-seller The Innovator’s Dilemma. In the book Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen investigated why some innovations that were radical in nature reinforced the incumbent’s position in a certain industry, contrary to what previous models (for instance the Henderson – Clark model) would predict.
Sustaining vs. The disk drive industry The passage from 14-inch to 8-inch disks. Disruptive technology. Sustaining innovations are typically innovations in technology, whereas disruptive innovations cause changes to markets. For example, the automobile was a revolutionary technological innovation, but it was not a disruptive innovation, because early automobiles were expensive luxury items that did not disrupt the market for horse-drawn vehicles. The market for transportation essentially remained intact until the debut of the lower priced Ford Model T in 1908.
The mass-produced automobile was a disruptive innovation, because it changed the transportation market. The automobile, by itself, was not. The current theoretical understanding of disruptive innovation is different from what might be expected by default, an idea that Clayton M. Christensen called the "technology mudslide hypothesis". This is the simplistic idea that an established firm fails because it does not "keep up technologically" with other firms. History and usage of the term[edit] The theory[edit] Disruptive technology[edit] Ideas Matter. This rural Oregon man (U.S.) is going to jail for collecting rainwater in ponds on his own property. You can read more about the story here .
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