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Why the Tech Industry Won’t Disrupt Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At first glance, it looks like health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. Instead, the winners will be health systems that team up with digital tech companies. But for many reasons, the incumbents — established health systems — will be extremely hard to displace.

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Disruptive Innovation in the Era of Big Tech

Harvard Business Review

How does the landmark theory apply to tech start-ups, three decades after its introduction?

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HBR Podcast on Disruptive Innovation

Idea to Value

Do you know what disruptive innovation is? No, I am not talking about every start-up trying to disrupt their industry. I am talking about the original theory of disruptive innovation, as outlined by Professor Clayton Christensen in his groundbreaking Harvard Business Review article in 1995.

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Leaders will invest less in transformational innovation due to fears over the economy

Idea to Value

This may upset a lot of startups or innovation teams who feel like it is their duty to look to the future and pull their company into new disruptive technologies. And the biggest drop is in what proportion of projects will be for transformational innovations. However, it might be the right thing to do.

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How Leaders Can Be Stewards of “Good Tech”

Harvard Business Review

It’s always been important for companies to take responsibility for the creation, application, and disruption of the technologies they create and use, but now that the rapid application of AI is affecting people’s privacy, security, and daily lives as never before, accepting that responsibility is essential.

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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. Technology: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? source: pixabay.com. 1 The Devil in Design.

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How Banks Can Stay Resilient As AI Becomes More Disruptive

Harvard Business Review

Historically, disruption is extremely rare. The second is a massive migration of tech talent from big finance to big tech. The second is a massive migration of tech talent from big finance to big tech. The third is an increased appetite by big tech companies to enter industries like big finance.