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Surrounded: When disruption hits on all sides (Part 2)

Christensen Institute

In Part 1 of this blog series, I highlighted that disruption in health care is increasingly present at many points along the consumer value chain. Key takeaways to recall from that first post are as follows: Disruption doesn’t stop where it starts. What happens when disruptors move up-market? Women make 80% of health care decisions.

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Uncharted Waters Disrupting the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

When you read a report that has within its executive summary this: “ In combination the boards stand unarmed to enter the battlefield of future business creation in a disrupted world ” it makes you want to read on. A lack of understanding innovation in all its forms is coming back to haunt them.

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Innovators in FMCG love Direct to Consumer

Destination Innovation

It boasted continuous innovation in product design and enjoyed a gross margin of around 60%. Warby Parker was valued in 2016 at over $1.2B. Hubble Contacts , founded in 2016, aims to disrupt the market for contact lenses by selling direct. Their innovative mattress was chosen as one of Time’s best inventions of 2015.

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Future-Proofing Financial Market Innovation – Fighting Digital Disruption with Digital Disruption

Qmarkets

The term ‘Digital Disruption’ describes the situation where an existing industry is being altered by emerging digital technologies. These new technologies lead to innovations, often creating new markets and value markets that can impact the established leaders in the industry. caption] Fighting Fire with Fire.

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7 Disruptive Forces for 2016 and Beyond

Innovation Excellence

As a futurist and CEO of an innovation firm, I study the implications of emerging trends through research and dialog with experts, scientists, and academics in diverse fields. As the first month of 2016 comes to a close, here are seven forces of the future poised to shift the way we live, work, bank, and vote.

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Identifying Opportunities for Disruptive Innovation

Strategos

Innovation that challenges well established industry business models promises opportunity for some and instills fear in others. We are drawn to stories of entrepreneurs who came up with brilliant ideas that disrupted the existing “rules of the game” by which industry players compete with one another. Disruption.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? Introduction. Rita McGrath. Gaia Grant.